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Issue: Famous Stars #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1950
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Issues: #2 of 6 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagZiff-Davis
Brand: A Ziff-Davis ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover photo of Betty Hutton.
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hollywood Quiz
Synopsis: Guess who the actors are by identifying different parts of their bodies.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside front cover.
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Laugh, Betty, Laugh

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Synopsis: bio of Betty Hutton
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Hollywood Wants You

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Synopsis: Talent scouts look for new faces for the movies.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Art formally attributed to John Prentice. Some see another artist, called "Little Al", because he drew most of the strips for this title under Ziff Davis. He has yet to identify him.
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What's with the Crosbys?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Bing Crosby; Dixie Lee; Paul Whiteman; Larry Crosby; Mr. O'Melveny; Al Rinker; Mildred Bailey; Gary Crosby; Philip Crosby; Dennis Crosby; Lindsay Crosby; Charley
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In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #2 published September 2013
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: This story recounts the life of Crosby from his earliest days until the present, with his marriage difficulties with Dixie Lee interspersed around and through it.
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Hollywood's Cinderella Girl

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Synopsis: bio of Joan Evans
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Pages: 2
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A Star Looks Heavenward

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Genres: biography
Synopsis: bio of Colleen Townsend
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Pages: 4
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No Swan Song for Swanson

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Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Synopsis: bio of Gloria Swanson
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Formally attributed to John Prentice.
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Stunts That Made Stars

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Synopsis: Stunts that actors did to get hired or recognized to obtain parts in motion pictures.
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Pages: 4
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Full page illustrated ad (one panel has Matt Baker art) for Romantic Marriage.
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: Contest to name the film actor whom you would nominate as Hollywood's Most Beautiful Hunk of Man.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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