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Issue: Lana #5
Publication Date: April 1949
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Issues: #5 of 7 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marjean Magazine Corp.
On Sale Date: 12/30/1948
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 3, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, 1949, p. 71, Copyright number: B172466.
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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]

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Genres: humorous, teen
First Line: You're hired!
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Jim Prentice New Amazing Electric Football

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Disclose Notes: Send $2.50 for a tabletop electric football game from Electric Game Company Inc., 911 Front St., Holyoke, Mass.
Indicia at bottom of page.
On inside front cover.
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High Spirits!

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: It's a stormy night and Clara tries to take advantage of Millie's fear of ghosts to get her to cancel her scary movie date with Mickey, so that Clara can go with him instead.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: 4583
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Advice on Ice!

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Lana gets the offer of an acting job, which she believes involves ice-skating, which she does not know how to do. Clara, a good ice skater, tells Lana she will help her, but secretly hopes she'll fall and hurt herself, leaving the job open for herself.
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Job Number: 4522
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A letter to our readers and their parents!

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Synopsis: Anti-censorship editorial.
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Water on the Brain!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Nero Plummer
Synopsis: Both Lana and Clara get a plumber mixed up with Mr. Plummer, a show producer.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: 4523
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According to Rules

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Job Number: SL-3312
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Disclose Notes: For 1 October 1948. Editor, Stan Lee; Managing Editor, Martin Goodman; Business Manager, Robert Solomon. [info from Atlas Tales]
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Never Too Late!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Jean
Synopsis: Millie has trouble with sleep and showing up on time for work, much to the displeasure of Mr. Hanover. Despite this, the next day she falls asleep in Hanover's office.
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Job Number: 3754
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Dress Rehearsel!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Toni Russell
Synopsis: Clara plans on keeping Lana away from the big producer's party that night by switching Lana's dress with a potato sack. Unknowingly, she switches the sack with the dress belonging to a top model, and there are consequences.
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Job Number: 4630
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The Impatient Patient!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mark Table; Jane
Synopsis: Heartthrob actor Mark Table is admitted to the hospital under the utmost secrecy to give him a break from adoring fans. Nellie, assigned to him as his nurse, is ecstatic to care for her new secret patient but makes the mistake of telling her nurse friend Mary Lou, who blathers it to all the other nurses with predictable results.
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Job Number: 4086
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Stringin' Along!

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Horace Cloverbloom
Synopsis: Mr. Hamm's friend, showman Horace Cloverbloom, comes for a visit at the boarding house. Trying to beat Lana for a part, as usual, Clara gets Horace to agree to give her a part in his production, unaware that it's a puppet show and she'll be pulling the strings.
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Job Number: 4418
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[untitled]

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First Line: The year's twenty-fifth stamp issued by the United States…
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Stamp Ads

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First Line: 25 different 3¢
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Disclose Notes: Various stamp ads surrounding Stamp News article. Small Patsy Walker promo in center of page.
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Illuminated 5 in 1 Glamor Kit

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Character(s): Adele Mara (colorized photo)
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Disclose Notes: Send $4.98 for glamor kit consisting of a compact, cigarette case, cigarette lighter, lipbrush and flashlight from American Merchandising Company Inc., Dept. GK49, 9 Madison Ave., Montgomery 4 , Ala.
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Enjoy Thrilling Alluring New Look Beauty

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Disclose Notes: Send $5.95 for the Three-n-One girdle from Three-n-One Co., Dept. MC-1, 871 Broad St., Newark, New Jersey.
On inside back cover.
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Congratulations, Partner!

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Disclose Notes: Send for Daisy Handbook #2 and optional "Boys Bill of Rights" picture from Daisy Manufacturing Co., 1419 Union St., Plymouth, Michigan, USA.
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