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Issue: Prize Comics #12 (24)

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Publication Date: October 1942

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Issues: #12 (24) of 68 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Prize

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Indicia Publisher: Feature Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/14/1942

Volume: 2

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): John Reece?

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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Format

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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Content Items (11 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Jack Binder

Inker(s): Jack Binder

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Yank and Doodle

Character(s): Yank and Doodle [Yank [Dick Walters]; Doodle [Rick Walters]]

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Pages: 1

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Paul Norris

Inker(s): Paul Norris

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Yank and Doodle

Character(s): Yank and Doodle [Yank [Dick Walters]; Doodle [Rick Walters]] (origin details revealed); Mr. Walters; Mrs. Walters (Yank and Doodle's mother; in flashback; death); Kraus (villain; introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain!)

First Line: In previous stories we have deliberately avoided mention of the mother of Yank and Doodle...

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Pages: 11

Notes: Details of Yank and Doodle's origin given, along with their first chronological appearance.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)

Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Dr. Frost

Character(s): Dr. Frost

First Line: A notorious gangster is to die in the electric chair...

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Pages: 6

Notes: Previous indexer attributed the art to Ben Thompson.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Binder

Inker(s): Jack Binder

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Black Owl

Character(s): The Black Owl [Doug Danville]; Funnibone (introduction; villain)

First Line: Into a small mining town in the Midwest comes a tall, weird, fantastic creature...

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Pages: 10

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Ted O'Neil

First Line: He who controls the air controls the ground beneath it...

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Pages: 6

Utter Failure!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Dick Briefer (signed)

Penciller(s): Dick Briefer (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Briefer (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, superhero

Feature(s): Frankenstein

Character(s): Bulldog Denny [Denny Dunsan]; The Black Owl [Doug Danville]; Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]; Dr. Frost; Yank and Doodle [Yank [Dick Walters]; Doodle [Rick Walters]]; The General; the Corporal; Frankenstein (villain); Tovo (villain, a bat); Gor (villain, an owl)

Synopsis: Because he is being called to Washington D.C. on defense matters, Bulldog Denny calls together a group of heroes to deal with the Frankenstein monster, who has not been stopped from ravaging many areas of the country. When the monster is weakened, the Green Lama repeats magic Tibetan words that seem to send the monster into another world where he faces a variety of fearful foes. Then reality sets back in and the heroes force the monster off a cliff to his apparent doom.

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Pages: 8

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Writer(s): Ken Browne

Penciller(s): Ken Browne

Inker(s): Ken Browne

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): General and the Corporal

First Line: It looks like you've got something on your mind, sir!

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Ken Crossen [as Richard Foster] (signed)

Penciller(s): Mike Suchorsky

Inker(s): Mike Suchorsky

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Lama

Character(s): Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]

First Line: Out of the seething cauldron of the battle of the Pacific...

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Pages: 8

Notes: Artist Mike Suchorsky per interview in the pages of Alter Ego #27 (August, 2003), which reprinted the splash page from this story.

The Mysterious Eye

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Writer(s): Crest Wood

Letterer(s): typeset

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Writer(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Buck Sanders

Character(s): Buck Sanders (first appearance)

First Line: This is a simple story of simple people...

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Pages: 6

Notes: Art was previously attributed to Munson Paddock, but the art is distinctly different from the Buck Saunders art in Headline Comics #13-18 (1945-1946), which more closely resembles Paddock’s general style, such as the use of big eyes, long noses, and starry visuals for energetic movement.

A Dott in Time Solves the Crime!

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Feature(s): Homer Q. Dott

Character(s): Homer Q. Dott (first appearance)

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Pages: 5