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Issue: Exciting Comics #2 (23) Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1942
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Issues: #2 (23) of 69 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/06/1942
Volume: 8
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines ?
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 B562864.
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Black Terror
Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover marquee: "A New Feature The American Eagle Democracy's Champion"
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes] (credited)
Penciller(s): Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)
Inker(s): Kin Platt [as Kin] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The American Eagle
Character(s): The Bludgeon (introduction, villain); The Eaglet
First Line: Once in the history of every nation comes the grim specter of unholy terror...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: The Eaglet gets super-powers in this story.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Naylor (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Snapper McGurk
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Black Terror
First Line: Infused with formic ether vapors...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Liberator
First Line: Nelson Drew, young university professor, uses an ancient Egyptian potion to become the mighty Liberator, America's avenger!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Writer credit determined by text analysis.
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Willie's Uncle Bill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tom McNamara
Penciller(s): Tom McNamara (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Gashouse Gang
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Unholy Trio

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes
Penciller(s): Bob Oksner
Inker(s): Bob Oksner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Pepper Swift
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Writer credit determined by text analysis.
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Land of the Free

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William McLellan
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, war
Character(s): Junior Forbes
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Oksner
Inker(s): Bob Oksner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Crash Carter air cadet
First Line: Boy, more sub sinkings off our coast!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Outlaw Saddles

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tom Gunn
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Billy Dawson
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes
Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Sergeant Bill King
First Line: Captain Wray wants to see you right away, Sarge!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Writer credit determined by text analysis.

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