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Issue: Top Notch Comics #26 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #26 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/10/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
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. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Roy
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Pages: 1
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Man without a Memory

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Character(s): Killer Black (Villain; Intro; Death); Stinky Diemert (Villain; Intro); Happy Malone (Villain; Intro); Lippy (Villain; Intro)
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Pages: 13
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The Jingler of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy the Super Boy [Roy Carter]; Winston Wolfe (introduction); The Jingler [Edward Fearing] (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Winston Wolfe was named after William Winston Woolfolk.
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The Disappearance of Beppo the Horse: Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Snoop McGook (Intro)
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Pages: 4
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Murder in an Old Dark House

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Pages: 5
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The Shrinking Serum

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Character(s): Dr. Richard Blake (Villain; Intro; Death?)
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Pages: 6
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The Blackout Bout

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Character(s): The Champ and his manager (Intro)
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Pages: 6
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Azores Adventure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Character(s): Mary May (Intro)
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Pages: 6
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Benvenuto Cellini

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: historical
Character(s): Benvenuto Cellini (Renaissance artist)
Synopsis: Of all the great men of the Italian Renaissance, the life of Cellini was the most amazing.
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Disclose Notes: Originally credited "Paul Reinman?", but it is not him. It has some resemblance to Roland Patenaude, but uncertain.
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Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Kardak; Newcomb (introduction)
First Line: A slight creaking of timbers, then a loud splintering crash and the frantic race of doomed men to escape swift, sudden death as grim, dark tragedy, in the form of a cave-in, visits the Newcomb coal mines!
Synopsis: Karnak terrorizes a mine owner to force him to make safety improvements in his mines.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: similar to story in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1

This must be Jim Phillips, as the art is very similar to his signed Black Witch stories in Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #24. Compare the rather short fingers, lines in ears and smiling faces.

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