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Issue: Top Notch Comics #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #23 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/10/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Hood; Roy
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Pages: 1
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Genres: superhero
First Line: Bravo!
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Pages: 14
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Genres: superhero
First Line: They were all killed in the same manner their bodies drained of blood before they were...
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Pages: 10
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Fran Frazer (news-photographer); Hal Davis (reporter); Captain
First Line: What do you see, Hal?
Synopsis: German U-boats are lying await in Tobruk Harbor for a big English convoy.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Irv Novick, but the movement of the figures are too stiff and awkward, and none of his faces are found here. Notice inking, the narrow pointed ears and long hands and fingers, which can be found in some other stories in Fran Frazer and Zambini, Zip Comics #23.
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Genres: adventure
First Line: Holy Joe, the red army is using live ammo!
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Pages: 5
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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 6
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Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): St. Louis Kid [Jim Jennings]; Windy; Pop Molloy; Batisse (French-Canadian lumber jack)
First Line: No wan can lick Batisse!
Synopsis: A fight with Batisse, a rough and rugged French-Canadian lumber jack, in a lumber camp in Canada.
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Genres: aviation
First Line: Enemy planes coming warn der U-boat base!
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]; Mr. Hendix (airplane manufacturer); Girl secretary
First Line: In the early morning, a huge bomber leaves...
Synopsis: A girl has got some inside information about the crash of a new bomber.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Originally credited to Bernard Klein, but this has none of his small heads with angry eyebrows in sideview. It is identical to King's signed stories in #19.
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Genres: superhero
First Line: What is it, my dear?
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Pages: 5

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