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Issue: Jumbo Comics #37

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Publication Date: March 1942

Issue #37
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Detail

Issues: #37 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

Brand: Fiction House Magazines

Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/22/1942

Volume: none

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): S. M. Iger (Art Director)

Notes: 'Volume number' is dropped starting with this issue.

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: black and white (#1-8); color (#9 onwards)

Dimensions: tabloid:10.5 x 14 1/2 (#1-8); 8.5 x 10.5 inches (#9); standard Golden Age U.S. (#10 onwards)

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- Congo Terror [Illustration on Cover, Front]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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Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (13 total)

Congo Terror

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Sheena

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Divas, Dames & Daredevils #[nn] published January 2013
as A Cast of Thousands [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Congo Terror

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as W. Morgan Thomas] (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Chim (a chimpanzee); Stone; May Bell; George Black

First Line: Chance fate involves Sheena in a real life...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: The title is taken from the cover.

Slick inker, a la Brewster - though it's a little early for her. Different inker on main character than on rest of story.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis] (credited)

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural

Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Laura Hayward; William Tell; Gessler

First Line: This month our time-flying playboy whizzes off with...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Art starts to get more grotesque with this issue. Perhaps other hands are present on the pencils as well as the inks.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Bobby

Character(s): Bobby

First Line: This is the life!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Midnight (a black stallion); Rick; Mal Viller; Doc Wilson; Helen; Clare Potter; Potter

First Line: Challenging all who would destroy the peace and...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Teller Tayles] (credited)

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Lightning [Fred Larkin]; General Larkin; Swift Elk; Black Beaver; Juan

First Line: Once again, the buck private, Fred Larkin, meets...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Art has some traces of the grotesqueness that will typify Cassone's later art. Could JC be involved?

Sure Thing

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Smith Martin] (credited)

Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Officer Riley; Mike (crook); Barney (crook)

First Line: The two shadowy figures...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as George Thatcher] (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Dayton

Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Manager Casey; Lefty Thomas; Ace Adams; Babe Dell; Mae; Bonebreaker Nelson

First Line: Inspector Dayton is in Florida, on vacation, and...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Cameron worked with Winter elsewhere at this time, and this certainly doesn't look like pure Winter.

Beer Florist Plants for Sale

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Heck] (credited)

Penciller(s): ? [as Heck] (credited)

Inker(s): ? [as Heck] (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Uncle Otto

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Not by Eisner according to Henry Steele.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Major Thorpe] (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action

Character(s): ZX-5; Aunt Emma Biddle

First Line: ZX-5 is at home, trying to decipher a...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Charles Tansul] (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): Tom, Dick, and Harry

Character(s): Tom Devlin; Dick Swenson; Harry Carson

First Line: Three of Uncle Sam's fighting fools climb on...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Pee Wee

Character(s): Pee Wee Myers; Mr. Chubb

First Line: Fido, this thing sure has me puzzled...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Willis B. Rensie] (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Character(s): The Hawk; Fluth; Jeremy Clogg; Jingo; Captain Gormas; Caleb

First Line: Day-dreaming on the ship's deck, the Hawk is suddenly interrupted...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Eisner material is collaged along with reworked and new panels by shop personnel to gell a new story. More new (Blum?) panels here than in prior "new" stories.

Any Eisner art here is reprinted from material printed in Jumbo Comics (1938 series) issues 1-16.