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Issue: The Saint #2

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Publication Date: January 1947

Issue #2
- #1
- ✔ #2
- #3
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
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Issues: #2 of 12 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Avon

Brand: An Avon Comic

Indicia Publisher: Avon Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 10/02/1947

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: Based on the character created by Leslie Charteris.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was on-going series

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- The Saint Meets the Housing Shortage [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (11 total)

The Saint

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): The Saint [Simon Templar]

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Notes: Inside front cover advertisement for educational books from Pickwick Co.

The Star Gazer

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): The Saint [Simon Templar]; Mysta; Helen Corning; Dexter Corning; Pat Holm; Hoppy; Alfred; Roscoe

Synopsis: A woman, convinced that the stars have predicted her death, is reassured by the Saint that this will not occur.

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Lucky Dale

Character(s): Lucky Dale; Sam; Mike; Slug

First Line: When Lucky Dale went to visit her uncle...

Synopsis: When Lucky Dale went to visit her uncle in a sleepy Florida town, she found her quiet stay at the sea shore turned into intrigue involving murder and robbery.

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Double Trouble

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Hank Bache; Rance Macklin; Pepe

Synopsis: Hank wants to trade places with Rance.

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Prop Bowers

Character(s): Prop Bowers; Delia; Benny; Numbers; Mr. Weevil

First Line: Backwards or forwards, no matter how you spell it, means a barrel-full of grief for flying ace Prop Bowers...

Synopsis: Prop takes a sky-writing job, but he's a little rusty at it.

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The Saint Meets the Housing Shortage

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): The Saint [Simon Templar]; Hoppy (Templar's partner); Pat Holm (friend of Templar); George Q. Peabody (agent for the Mayhew Mansion); Jim Williams (soldier); Mrs. Williams (Jim's wife); Caleb (Mayhew Mansion caretaker)

Synopsis: Distressed over the current housing shortage, the agent for the Mayhew Mansion tells Templar of the disappearance of a soldier from that very mansion, so the Saint decides to visit the mansion and talk to the G.I.'s wife. Some think ghosts haunt the mansion....but the Saint discovers otherwise!

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Prison Break! #2 published December 1951
was The Case of the Missing Bridegroom [Story on Interior Page(s)]main character's name changed

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Feature(s): Letters to the Saint

First Line: I just finished reading the first issue of the Saint and I think it is one of the best comic books on the news stands.

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Notes: $2 will be paid for each letter published on this page.

Letters from Denis Corkman, Josephine Magnus, Nicky Thompson, William Brindly, Richard Lepore, Walter Moore, Larry Garnis, and Arthur Wansel.

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First Line: The most amazing invention of the age!

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Notes: Advertisement for a radar radio and mike set from American Merchandising Company, Inc.

How "Jack the Weakling" Slaughtered the "Dance-Floor Hog"!

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Feature(s): Charles Atlas

Character(s): Charles Atlas (photo); Jack; Helen

Synopsis: Jack gets pushed around by a bully at a dance.

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Notes: Found on the inside back cover.

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First Line: America's greatest zipper billfold bargain!

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Notes: Ad for a billfold from Illinois Merchandise Mart, found on the back cover.