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Issue: Startling Comics #2 (17) Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1942
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Issues: #2 (17) of 53 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/04/1942
Volume: 6
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: 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.
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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 series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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The Adder Strikes

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Subject Matter
Character(s): The Adder (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 12
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The Return of Diablo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Character(s): Diablo (villain); Graf (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Signed on the bottom of the last page.
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Black Satan Strikes Again

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Black Satan (villain); Tommy's father (introduction)
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Pages: 11
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Herbie's Parrot

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Herbie Johnson
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Rugel (villain, introduction)
First Line: Army Intelligence summons Biff!
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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The Bombing Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Kriebl (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: next appears in TOM STRONG V1 #12.
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Summer Camp

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Furst (villain, introduction, death); Harry (villain, introduction); Joe (villain, introduction); Keller (villain, introduction)
First Line: At the U.S. war office...
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Pages: 6
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Genres: western
Character(s): The Nighthawks [Moseby; Green; others] (villains)
First Line: What the--! Flames...and that can't be a prairie fire!
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Bah--75 cents--me an' Happy can play fer less--
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Pages: 2

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