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Issue: Mysterious Traveler Comics #1
Publication Date: November 1948
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagTrans-World Publications
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Trans-World Publications
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alfred M. Klein (proprietor)
Disclose Notes: Cover notes: "As featured on Mutual Broadcasting Network."

Listed as "quarterly" in the indicia, but only this issue was published.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: stapled
Publishing Format: intended as on-going series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Five Miles Down

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Mysterious Traveler
Character(s): Mysterious Traveler
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Grand Vizier's Reward

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, informational
Character(s): Sissa Ben Dahir; King of India
Synopsis: The King of India rewards Sissa Ben Dahir, the inventor of chess, with grains of wheat on a chessboard.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTerry and the Pirates #28 published October 1955
as The Grand Vizier's Reward [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTerry & the Pirates #2 published January 1998
as The Grand Vizier's Reward [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: on inside front and back covers
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Five Miles Down

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert A. Arthur (original radio story); David Kogan (original radio story); ? (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Mysterious Traveler
Character(s): Mysterious Traveler
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Per the fanzine, Fantasy Times (James V. Taurasi and Raymond Van Houten, 1941 series) #67 (July 1948), as reported by Art Lortie (10 September 2015) on the GCD-Chat discussion list, story is based on the radio episode "Five Miles Down." The show was broadcast twice (9 February 1947 and 4 July 1950) on the Mutual Broadcasting System and no known copies of the original broadcast episode appears to exist.
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The Tell Tale Heart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edgar Allan Poe (original); ? (comic adaptation)
Penciller(s): Alan Mandel?
Inker(s): Alan Mandel?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Famous Tales of Terror
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagYellowjacket Comics #6 published December 1945
was The Tell Tale Heart [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: All information for this sequence from John Haufe, April 2008. Updated with possible artist ID August 2009.
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The Mystery of the Five Fingers

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Mysterious Traveler
Character(s): Mysterious Traveler
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Raw Deal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leopold Atlas (movie script); John C. Higgins (movie script); ? (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the then "soon to be showing at your favorite theatre..." Eagle-Lion studio production by the same name. Staring Dennis O'Keefe, Raymond Burr, Marsha Hunt, Claire Trevor, John Ireland and Chile Williams.

See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040723/ for more information about the movie.
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Take a Trip to India

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Mysterious Traveler
Character(s): Mysterious Traveler
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Beauty Trix Wallet
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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