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Issue: Master Comics #23

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Publication Date: February 1942

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Issues: #23 of 133 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fawcett

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/07/1942

Volume: 4

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

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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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: 10.5" x 14" (#1-6); standard Golden Age U.S. (#7-133)

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In3

2 Content Items
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]0
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted 2 times as/in other Issues.

1 Content Item
- The Weeper [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Shazam

Reprinting

In Issue:

The Shazam! Family Archives #1 published November 2006

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Ring Master Presents

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Various

Inker(s): Various

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (cameo); Rastus (chauffeur); Herr Burke (death); Captain Nazi [Albrecht Krieger] (villain)

First Line: Is there a chance to help sell papers, mister?

Synopsis: Captain Nazi kills an underground British agent, attends a secret conference meeting, and then sets out to kill the President of the United States before Captain Marvel Jr. can stop him.

Reprinting

In Issue:

The Shazam! Family Archives #1 published November 2006

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Notes: Freddy becomes a newsboy in this story.

The last panel on page 13 gives the title of next issues' Captain Marvel Jr. story: "Death By Radio".

The Weeper

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Bulletgirl [Susan Kent]; The Weeper [Mortimer Gloom] (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: The Flying Detectives face a circus performer, formerly known as the Crying Clown or Weeping Willie, who has been fired for dishonesty and now is carrying out revenge crimes.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Men of Mystery Comics #74 published October 2008
as The Weeper, The Murderer Who Mourned His Victims [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 14

Notes: The last tier of panels is an illustrated ad for the next issue of Bulletman Comics.

The Weeper was created by Henry Perkins.

Minute Man and the Walking Dead Man

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Minute Man [Jack Weston]

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

See the Freaks Free

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): El Carim

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Barney

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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Inker(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Barney

First Line: I wonder how Willie is makin' out with his homework!

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: This is the only story with Barney as the feature I can find at Fawcett. Therefore, I propose "Barney" is the title, not the feature.

Arizona Bound

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Buck Jones; Silver (horse); Mesquite Mike (deputy); Joe; Ruth (stage line owner); Aunt Miranda; Taggert (crook)

Synopsis: Taggert is behind the robbings and killings on the stage line, and he will try to take over the line for himself.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Adapted from the movie, "Arizona Bound."

Carlson is best recognized by his horses with long narrow, tapering heads and often with front legs stretched out like a rocking horse, or a very high lift of the legs.

Attila

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: historical, non-fiction

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Double for Death

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Battle with the Kraken

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Companions Three [Don; Nifty; Spike]

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.33

Notes: On the bottom of a house-ad page.