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Issue: Top Notch Comics #26 Public Domain
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Variant: unnamed
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
Black Hood; Roy
Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Roy
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Miscellaneous
1
Man without a Memory

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Shorten
Al Camy
Al Camy
?
?
Subject Matter
Black Hood
Killer Black (Villain; Intro; Death); Stinky Diemert (Villain; Intro); Happy Malone (Villain; Intro); Lippy (Villain; Intro)
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Miscellaneous
13
The Jingler of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Woolfolk
Paul Reinman (signed)
Paul Reinman (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Wizard with Roy the Super Boy
The Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy the Super Boy [Roy Carter]; Winston Wolfe (introduction); The Jingler [Edward Fearing] (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
11
Winston Wolfe was named after William Winston Woolfolk.
The Disappearance of Beppo the Horse: Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Carl Hubbell?
Carl Hubbell?
?
?
Subject Matter
Snoop McGook
Snoop McGook (Intro)
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Miscellaneous
4
Murder in an Old Dark House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Shorten
Warren King
Warren King
?
?
Subject Matter
Keith Kornell
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Miscellaneous
5
The Shrinking Serum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Shorten
Warren King
Warren King
?
?
Subject Matter
Firefly
Dr. Richard Blake (Villain; Intro; Death?)
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Miscellaneous
6
The Blackout Bout

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Montana
Bob Montana
Bob Montana
?
?
Subject Matter
St. Louis Kid
The Champ and his manager (Intro)
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Miscellaneous
6
Azores Adventure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Blair
Ed Smalle
Ed Smalle
?
?
Subject Matter
Wings Johnson
Mary May (Intro)
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Miscellaneous
6
Benvenuto Cellini

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
historical
Benvenuto Cellini (Renaissance artist)
Of all the great men of the Italian Renaissance, the life of Cellini was the most amazing.
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Miscellaneous
6
Originally credited "Paul Reinman?", but it is not him. It has some resemblance to Roland Patenaude, but uncertain.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
occult
Kardak; Newcomb (introduction)
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!
Karnak terrorizes a mine owner to force him to make safety improvements in his mines.
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Miscellaneous
6
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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