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Issue: United Comics #1
Publication Date: August 1940
 
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Publisher: FlagUnited Feature
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Indicia Publisher: United Feature Syndicate Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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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: one-shot
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller
?
typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Fritzi Ritz
Fritzi Ritz; Phil Fumble
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (illustrations)
? (illustrations)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
informational
United Comics Patterns
No. 3306.... You can put this dress on all by yourself...
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Inside front cover ad for dress patterns from United Comics, Pattern Service, 220 East 42nd St., New York City.
Little Mary Mixup's In Another "Mixup"

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
R. M. Brinkerhoff (illustrations)
R. M. Brinkerhoff (illustrations)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Little Mary Mixup
Little Mary Mixup; Mom; Uncle Ezra
Little Mary Mixup is up to something again!
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Inside front cover promo for the second issue of Little Mary Mixup comic magazine (Single Series, United Feature, 1938 Series, number 26).
Presenting the Rise of Ernie Bushmiller Creator of Fritzi Ritz

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Ernie Bushmiller (illustrations)
Ernie Bushmiller (illustrations)
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typeset
Subject Matter
biography, non-fiction
Fritzi Ritz
Fritzi Ritz; Ernie Bushmiller (illustrations and photograph); editor of the New York World newspaper
Most great men start out as boys and Ernie Bushmiller was no different.
Story of Ernie Bushmiller beginning as a copy boy, becoming a newspaper cartoonist and creating Fritzi Ritz.
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1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller (signed)
Ernie Bushmiller (signed)
?
Ernie Bushmiller ?
Subject Matter
humorous
Fritzi Ritz
Fritzi Ritz; Nancy; Wally
I don't usually go in for practical jokes -
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from Fritzi Ritz Sunday page (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 193x-xx-xx through 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
24
48 Fritzi Ritz half page Sunday strips on the top half of pages 4 through 33 and 36 through 53.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller (signed)
Ernie Bushmiller (signed)
?
Ernie Bushmiller ?
Subject Matter
humorous
Phil Fumble
Phil Fumble; Phoebe
Gosh - Phoebe is sore at me -
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from Phil Fumble Sunday page (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 193x-xx-xx through 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
23.5
47 Phil Fumble half page Sunday strips on the top half of pages 4 through 10, 12 through 33 and 36 through 53.
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller (signed)
Ernie Bushmiller (signed)
?
Ernie Bushmiller ?
Subject Matter
informational
Fritzi's Fashions
Fritzi Ritz; Phil Fumble
I'm lending Fritzi my space folks-
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from Fritzi's Fashions Sunday page (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.5
Bottom half of page 11.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (illustrations)
? (illustrations)
? (title)
? (title); typeset
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Hingeing on Stamps
Getting Equipped
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Miscellaneous
2
Centerspread text article on stamp collecting with two columns of advertisements from stamp dealers. Pages 34 and 35.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller
?
Ernie Bushmiller ?
Subject Matter
humorous
Fritzi Ritz
Fritzi Ritz; Nancy; Pa (Fritzi's father); Wally; Wallace Beery; Joan Crawford
Oh Aunt Fritzi didn't you work in the movies...
Fritzi goes to Hollywood to get into the movies and takes Nancy along with her.
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from Fritzi Ritz dailies (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 193x-xx-xx to 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
12.67
About 32 daily pages modified to make a continuous story. Pages 54 through 66.
Jumbo Books

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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? (cover reproductions)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Featuring Your United Feature Comic Group Favorites
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Miscellaneous
0.33
One column promo ad for six Jumbo Books with the covers of Li'L Abner, Abbie an' Slats and Becky, Jim Hardy and Broncho Bill shown. These were published by Saalfield and competed with Better Little Books (BLB). A small classified ad appears at the top of this column.
Watch For the Big 4

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Burne Hogarth ?; Raeburn van Buren; Ernie Bushmiller; Ben Batsford ?
Burne Hogarth ?; Raeburn van Buren; Ernie Bushmiller; Ben Batsford ?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Tarzan; Abbie; Slats; Fritzi Ritz; Phil Fumble; Frankie Doodle
On sale every month at all newsstands!
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover promo ad showing the covers of Tip Top Comics #52, Comics On Parade #29, United Comics #1 and Sparkler Comics #2. Although the ad proclaims these four as being on sale every month, United Comics ceased with the first issue and Sparkler concluded with the second issue.
The Tootsie Roll of Honor

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
? (ad agency)
Subject Matter
childrens
Tootsie Roll
Put yourself in these pictures - open to everybody
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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