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Issue: Target Comics #5 [29]

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Publication Date: July 1942

Detail

Issues: #5 [29] of 105 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Novelty / Premium / Curtis

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Novelty Press Inc.

On Sale Date: 04/29/1942

Volume: 3

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: (c) 1942 Funnies, Incorporated
Distribution brand on cover: C (in Triangle) for Curtis Circulation

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. 3.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- The Devil Divers of the Deep [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (13 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Chameleon [Peter Stockbridge]

First Line: Quick-trigger action by the Chameleon was all that saved Ragsy when he crashed the hornet's nest of trouble!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Basil Woverton and Sid Greene

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Biography of Basil Wolverton and Sid Greene.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): John Jordan (credited)

Inker(s): John Jordan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Kit Carter; Jake Koreau; Dan Merry; Colonel Tilghman; Steve

First Line: This is a strange story about a strange man...

Synopsis: Jake Koreau doesn't like Daunton, and is upset that he doesn't own the swamp that Daunton owns. And just what is that smell? The Cadet Featuring Kit Carter

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: Previous indexer thought George Kapitan was the penciler. Kapitan wrote comic books from 1940-1945 but is not known to have drawn any.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: military, superhero

Character(s): The Target [Niles Reed]; The Targeteers [Dave Brown; Tom Foster]; Reed; O'Brien; Ginsberg; Venezia; Nikkitu

First Line: The United States has declared war on the evil, treacherous rodents...

Synopsis: After the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, The Target and The Targeteers join 3 different branches of the military. Niles heads for the Panama Canal Zone, where he finds the Japanese army.

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Pages: 8

Part VI

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): J. Fenimore Cooper (original story)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): The Last of the Mohicans

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Pages: 6

Notes: Adapted from the novel by J. Fenimore Cooper. "Fantastic Feature Films" is not mentioned in this installment.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Speck; Spot; Sis; Speck's dad; Mr. Eddy; Stoney

First Line: At ease!

Synopsis: Speck is outfitting his gang into the Victory Boys, and drilling, and selling war stamps.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Have You Heard...

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.67

Notes: Stamp collecting column

Target Terrors

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Subject Matter

First Line: Getting late, Beel...

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Western Crime Cases #9 published December 1951
as Whistling Utah Bank Bandit [Story on Interior Page(s)]feature removed from reprint and title added

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Character(s): Al T. Tude; Delores; Speed King

First Line: Al T. Tude and his girl friend, Delores...

Synopsis: Al T. Tude has invented a flying machine.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

The Devil Divers of the Deep

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Spacehawk #[nn] published December 2012
as Spacehawk and the Devil Divers of the Deep [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Ragsy; Professor; Blackie Dawson; Pete Stockbridge

First Line: What's this?

Synopsis: There is mysterious doings on the waterfront. Pete Strockbridge, Alias The Chameleon

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Pages: 10

Wild West Show

Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Milton Filchock ?

Penciller(s): Milton Filchock ?

Inker(s): Milton Flichock ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Milton Filchock ?

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Pages: 1

Notes: gag cartoons