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Issue: Star Spangled Comics #124
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Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 11/12/1951
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 19 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U .S.
Paper Stock: glossy Cover; newsprint Interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Suicide Tower!

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Subject Matter
mystery
Doctor Terry Thirteen
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Loads of Fun Ahead with Gifts Like These

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Inside front cover.
Suicide Tower!

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Subject Matter
mystery
Doctor Terry Thirteen; Marie Leeds; Joe Martinez (death); Pete Clay (death); Carol Deeds
An ancient Aztec curse seems to compel anyone that climbs Suicide Tower to hurl themselves to their deaths, and even Doctor Thirteen nearly succumbs until he figures out the truth of the "curse."
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FlagThe Phantom Stranger #17 published January 1972
as Suicide Tower! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFantomet #11/1998 published January 1998
as Selvmordstårnet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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What has a bed but never sleeps...
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What Sparks a Champion Sparks You!

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Subject Matter
sports
Johnny Lujack
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Endorsement for Wheaties from Chicago Bears quarterback Johnny Lujack (1925-2023).
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
childrens
Here comes the matador!
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Jim Prentice New Amazing Electric Football

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Tabletop electric football game from The Electric Game Company.
Operation "Escape"!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Robin [Dick Grayson]; Champ Trask (flashback)
Robin delivers a lecture to a class of police recruits on how he escaped from a seemingly impossible situation when captured by Champ Trask's gang.
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FlagBatman #199 published February 1968
as Operation "Escape"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman #4/1969 published February 1969
as Die unmögliche Flucht [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLynvingen #4/1969 published April 1969
as Operasjon flukt [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[1] published August 1988
as Operation "Escape"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published December 1988
as Operation "Escape"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published June 1989
as Operation "Escape"! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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"Phoo on Goo!" Says Bert Parks

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Endorsement from actor, singer, and television host Bert Parks (1914-1992).
Now's the Time to Ask for a Schwinn

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Ad featuring the Schwinn Black Phantom bike.
The Writers Who Went to Sea!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Mark Compass; Jerry Van Horn; Paul Clark; Dennis Johnson
The Captain is convinced to pilot a pleasure cruise for the Ace Crime Writers Club because they fear trouble, but they really want him for the publicity value. However, it's good he's there when one of the writers is murdered and the killer is clearly on board.
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5.67
Editorial Advisory Board

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Includes a plug for A Date with Judy, Saturday mornings on ABC television.
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Boys! Girls! Hurry!

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Ad for a U.S. Military ring and bracelet, a premium from Smith Brothers Cough Drops.
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What Sparks a Champion Sparks You

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Soldiers in White

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Subject Matter
non-fiction
Historical article on military nurses.
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A Trap for Tomahawk!

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Subject Matter
historical, western
Tomahawk; Dan Hunter; Black Fox
Dan is captured by a band of Mohawk outlaws and tricked into revealing his comrade's whereabouts, but Tomahawk has planned a ruse of his own to stay safe and free Dan.
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Miscellaneous
5.67
Art layouts look like Bob Brown.
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Subject Matter
Charlie Wild
Charlie Wild, private detective, stays stylish with Wildroot Cream-Oil, even when chasing crooks.
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Superboy Says "Share with Others!"

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
opinion, superhero
Superboy
Superboy helps some teens in Smallville organize a charity to buy shoes for poor people in foreign countries.
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Miscellaneous
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Inside back cover.
New Double Gift Idea!

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Back cover; suggestion to buy a junior membership in the National Rifle Association along with a Daisy Air Rifle as a Christmas gift.

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