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Issue: Joker Comics #17
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #17 of 42 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Current Detective Stories Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/28/1944
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (10 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, 1944, Vol. 39, No. 4, p. 410, Copyright number: B647123.

Info from Vince Fago (actual editor) came from publisher's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Four color interiors; full color covers
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: humorous
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New Enlargement 3¢ Stamp

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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Mail order ad for color photograph enlargements from Dean Studios, Dept. 944, 211 W. 7th St., Des Moines, Iowa.
On top third of inside front cover.
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New True-Love and Friendship Ring

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Disclose Notes: Ad for sterling silver ring and matching earrings. $1.95 each from Empire Diamond Co., Dept. 212 EP, Jefferson, Iowa.
On middle third of front cover.
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Birthstone Ring Given Away

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Disclose Notes: Ad for selling Gold Crown Spot Remover and Cleaner. Gold Crown Products, Dept. E-161, Jefferson, Iowa.
On bottom third of front cover.
Indicia below.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I still don't see why you want this sun lamp on the beach, Tess!
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Tessie and Skidsy go to the beach where Tessie wears her new two-piece bathing suit and Skidsy faces down a shark.
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Character(s): Penelope Pepper (intro; Powerhouse's mom)
First Line: Yippee! That's my mom -
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Rook Knows His Onions

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First Line: Why Pop, how did you kill all those Japs without a gun?
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First Line: How'm I doin', Tar?
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Teen-Age Girls!!! Enter the Miss America Magazine Contest!!

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Feature(s): Miss America
Character(s): Miss America
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Disclose Notes: Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 5-25-09.

Photo ad for the Miss America Magazine Contest, offering $1000 in cash prizes to teenage girls who will enter the contest. Readers are instructed to get the November, 1944 issue of Miss America, on sale September 10th, for details.
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First Line: O.K., Chief!
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First Line: Okay, Miss--I'll buy 'em--
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First Line: I'd better fix that loose light switch!
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First Line: Twin brothers were Geezer and Beezer McWheezer...
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The Case of the Concealed Carcass

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Free With This Offer!

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Genres: sports
First Line: Here's every science of self-defense, and lethal attack...
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Disclose Notes: Mail order ad offering books on boxing, wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu from Pickwick Company, Dept. 6011, 73 West 44th Street, New York 18, New York.
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This Giant, 30-Mile-Range, 4-Foot Super-Telescope…

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Disclose Notes: Illustrated advertisement from the Invention Company, Dept. T-911, P.O. Box 281, Church Street Annex, New York 8, N.Y., offering readers a telescope for $3 and a free carrying case for it.
On inside back cover.
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Amaze Your Friends with Magic

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Disclose Notes: Send $2.00 for complete equipment for 10 magic tricks from D. Robbins & Co., Dept. JK-11, 152 w. 42nd St., New York 18, N.Y.
On back cover.

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