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Issue: New Adventure Comics #4 (16)
Publication Date: June 1937
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Issues: #4 (16) of 20 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/07/1937
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 35 (21 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Junior Federal Men Club begins with this issue. Indicia says "VOL. 2 No. 4", cover says No. 16.

On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1937, New Series, Volume 32, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 343379. Submitted as "New Adventure Comics" and as issue number v2#4 to the Copyright Office.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: adventure, mystery
First Line: Steve Carson says: "I want you and every other real American boy to join my Junior Federal Men Club!"
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The Comic Headliner!

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Feature(s): More Fun Comics
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Genres: mystery
Character(s): "Red" Gorman (villain) (death); Federal Men [Wan Ling (death)]
First Line: Closely pursued, a smuggling craft adopts ruthless tactics to blue the Coast-Guard-cutter which is steadily gaining upon it. Hastily, the smugglers throw their human, yellow cargo to a battery death, disregarding piteous cries....
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First Line: Every red-blooded American boy thrills when he reads of the gallant efforts of the United States Federal Men to free our country from the handicaps of its criminally-minded "public enemies."
Synopsis: The column introduces the club and briefly explains its "aims and ideals," including the club motto of "Courage and courtesy." It also gives an overview of the structure and hierarchy of members and stresses the importance of being physically fit and mentally alert.
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Disclose Notes: This is a promotion encouraging readers to join the "Junior Federal Men Club" (JFMC). The page includes a clip-and-mail coupon that can be mailed, along with 10 cents, to "enlist" in the Junior Federal Men Club. Those who joined received a badge, certificate and Operator's number. The address on the form is 432 Fourth Ave., New York City.
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The Tsin Lee Incident, Part 3

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dale Daring
Character(s): Dale Daring; Tsin Lee (villain); Captain Brewster
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Murder at the Thousand Bleeding Dragons, Part 3

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Detective Sergeant Carey of the Chinatown Squad
Character(s): Sgt. Carey; Sleepy; Sin Fu (villain)
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Episode 14

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Genres: historical
Feature(s): Captain Quick
Character(s): Kendall Quick
Synopsis: Quick is captured by the Spanish and taken to Cartagena.
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Rajah Maharajah, Part 12

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Sandor and the Lost Civilization
Character(s): Sandor; Benar
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Feature(s): Worth-While Pictures to Watch For
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Patsy Kelly

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Feature(s): Straight from Hollywood
Character(s): Patsy Kelly; Robert Young; Ted Healy; Ole Olsen; Chic Johnson
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ol' Oz Bopp
First Line: I 'member th' winter of seventy-two-
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Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Feature(s): Famous Poems Pictured
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Andy Handy
First Line: Spring tonic
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Th' Cunnel
Character(s): The Cunnel [Colonel] (only appearance)
First Line: Ah'm starved - Mammy Lou!
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Disclose Notes: In black and white.
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Feature(s): It's a Dern Lie
Character(s): Cameo: Editor of NEW ADVENTURE COMICS (Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson?)
First Line: Hubby has just been made mayor of our town...
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Disclose Notes: "submitted by I. P. Hawkins Jeffers"
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Episode 3

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Monastery of the Blue God
Character(s): Douglas Stewart; Baroness Elsa Von Saxenberg; Von Bolander; Sgt. Miller; Corporal Drenoff
Synopsis: Captain Stewart is assigned to China to search for Bolshevik spies.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Laughing at Life
First Line: Quiet - Joe - I thought I just heard something!!
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Knights of the Royal Bull, Part 4

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Genres: adventure
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Episode 10

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): She
Character(s): She; Holly; Leo
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Disclose Notes: adapted from the H. Rider Haggard novel
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Episode 13

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Genres: historical
Feature(s): A Tale of Two Cities
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Disclose Notes: adapted from the Charles Dickens novel
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Shanghai Pete, Part 8

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Feature(s): Hardluck Harry
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Episode 16

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Genres: historical
Feature(s): The Vikings
Character(s): Ivar; Hasylwyn
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Feature(s): International Good Neighbor Club
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The Revenge of Devachan, Part 4

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Adventures of Steve Conrad
Character(s): Steve Conrad; Myra; Davachan; Tangi (introduction, villain)
Synopsis: Steve and Myra are stranded on an island and offered as sacrifice by the natives.
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Episode 11

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Golden Dragon
Character(s): Ian; Pan Chi-Lou; doris
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Goofo the Great
First Line: Emily's seeing too much of Joe!
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Big Prizes and Cash Profits!

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Feature(s): The Crowell Publishing Co.
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First Line: Ask for the big 'New Book of Comics' 10¢ at F. W. Woolworth Co. Stores
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Sit-down striker nothing!!
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Episode 3

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Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Jungle Fever
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Disclose Notes: continued in MORE FUN COMICS #22
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The Train Robbery, Part 16

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Genres: western
Feature(s): Captain Jim of the Texas Rangers
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Mystery! Adventure! Thrills!

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Feature(s): Detective Comics
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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