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Issue: Crown Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1945
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Issues: #1 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMcCombs
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Golfing Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Date listed is copyright date; no publication date listed. Numbered #1 on cover only.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Matt Baker ?; Alex Blum ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Feature(s): Graves Ghost Hunter
Character(s): Graves; Charles Wright (dead man)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Baker is credited on pencils on covers for McCombs comics Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the face with spooky eyes points to him as most probable. Or it could be Alex Blum, who drew the same story inside..?
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The Oblong Box

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (Original Story); ? (Adaptation)
Penciller(s): Alex Blum ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Captain Hardy; Edgar Allan Poe (passenger); Wyatt (artist)
Synopsis: An artist brings along an oblong chest aboard the ship "Independence".
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Uncertain, but faces in profile with long eyebrows looks like Blum, and he is credited on pencils in Crown Comics by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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Master Marvin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Kapitan (signed)
Penciller(s): Al Fagaly (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): B. Chrysler (byline)
Penciller(s): Alex Blum
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Graves Ghost Hunter
Character(s): Graves (ghost hunter); Charles Wright
Synopsis: A man is killed by a ghost outside Mr. Graves house.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

The faces and landscapes point clearly to Alex Blum, and he is credited on pencils in Crown Comics by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Frollo ?
Inker(s): Frank Frollo ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Secret Agent RS-II
Character(s): RS-II (secret agent)
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Frollo is credited on pencils and ink in Crown Comics by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and this simple drawing and inking match quite well his signed story in Lawbreakers Suspense Stories #10 from 1953.
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Diamonds of Destiny

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles Dean
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Hopalong Bunny

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ellis Chambers (signed)
Penciller(s): Ellis Chambers (signed)
Inker(s): Ellis Chambers (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Sledge Storm
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Terry Britt Gang Buster
Character(s): Terry Britt (Policeman); un-named Police Captain; Blake (trucker); Martin (villain, local politician, insurance racketeer); Martin's henchmen (villains)
Synopsis: A vicious gang of insurance racketeers, headed by a local politician, seek to extort money from trucking firms. A secret group of six masked men select Terry Britt to seek out evidence to expose the politician and put an end to the racket.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Captain Blaze Steel
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Pages: 6

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