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Issue: Exciting Comics #1 (22) Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/18/1942
Volume: 8
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines] (president)
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

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. 4, page 450, registration number B555709.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
? (swipe)
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Subject Matter
superhero
The American Eagle
The American Eagle
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Miscellaneous
1
Cover marquee: "Introducing The American Eagle Democracy's Champion"
Cover is swiped from title panel of interior story.
The Weather Wreckers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Richard Hughes ?
David Gabrielsen
David Gabrielsen
Richard Hughes ?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Terror
Barometri (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
13
The Machine That Raised the Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Richard Hughes ?
Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)
Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)
Richard Hughes ?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The American Eagle
The American Eagle [Tom Standish]; The Eaglet [Bud Pierce](introduction and origin); Dr. Ennis (introduction, death); Klauber (villain, introduction, death); Blackbeard and other villains (villains, introduction, death)
A clever Nazi spy learns of a scientist's invention that can bring the dead back to life and kills the man who invented it so he can secure the machine to bring great villains from the past back to life. Bud dons a costume for the first time [Bud says to himself: "Guess I'm The American Eaglet Now, Huh?"] to help his mentor battle for his life!
Reprinting
FlagMen of Mystery Comics #84 published January 2011
as The Machine That Raised the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white
 
Miscellaneous
13
First appearance in America's Best Comics #2.
Clarion Call

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Carl Sturdy
Carl Sturdy
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
The Bulletproof Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
The Liberator
Dr. Voss (introduction, death); Nazis
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Miscellaneous
11
Circus Lad

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Morley Burroughs
Morley Burroughs
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Ted Crane at the Top of the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
George Mandel
George Mandel
?
?
Subject Matter
Ted Crane
Dr. Cobra (introduction); Hakawaya; the Dalai Lama
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Miscellaneous
8
Conspiracy by the Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bob Oksner
Bob Oksner
?
?
Subject Matter
Pepper Swift
Felix Pierre (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
7
It's a Smash Hit!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Terror (inset); Doc Strange (inset); The American Eagle (inset); Captain Future (inset); Secret Ace (inset)); The Woman in Red (inset)
Promo for America's Best Comics
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Larry Saves a Vital Rubber Shipment

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Leslie Bellem ?
Max Plaisted
Max Plaisted
?
?
Subject Matter
Larry North U.S.N.
Frieda Schmidt (introduction); Nazis
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ray McGill
Ray McGill (signed)
Ray McGill (signed)
Ray McGill
?
Subject Matter
Rookie Riley
Say Riley -- now keep this under ya hat --
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3

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