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Issue: Master Comics #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1942
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Issues: #23 of 133 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
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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: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): France Herron?
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: 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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Mac Raboy
Inker(s): Mac Raboy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel, Jr.
Character(s): Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Shazam
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Shazam! Family Archives #1 published November 2006
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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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
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mac Raboy
Inker(s): Mac Raboy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Marvel, Jr.
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.
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In Issue: FlagThe Shazam! Family Archives #1 published November 2006
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose 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".
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The Weeper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Perkins ?
Penciller(s): Binder studio
Inker(s): Binder studio
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Bulletman
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.
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In Content Item: FlagMen 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
Disclose Notes: The last tier of panels is an illustrated ad for the next issue of Bulletman Comics.

The Weeper was created by Henry Perkins.
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Minute Man and the Walking Dead Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Phil Bard
Inker(s): Phil Bard
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Minute Man
Character(s): Minute Man [Jack Weston]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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See the Freaks Free

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Tuska
Inker(s): George Tuska
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): El Carim
Character(s): El Carim
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Barney
Character(s): Barney
First Line: I wonder how Willie is makin' out with his homework!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Arizona Bound

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ralph Carlson
Inker(s): Ralph Carlson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal
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.
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Pages: 7
Disclose 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.
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Attila

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction
Feature(s): Famous Blitzkriegs of the Past
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Double for Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joseph J. Millard (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Battle with the Kraken

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kin Platt?
Inker(s): Kin Platt?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Companions Three
Character(s): Companions Three [Don; Nifty; Spike]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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