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Issue: Famous Stars #2

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1950

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Issues: #2 of 6 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Ziff-Davis

Brand: A Ziff-Davis Comic

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)

Editor(s): Jerry Siegel (Director Comics Division)

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Format

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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- What's with the Crosbys? [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Content Items (11 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Cover photo of Betty Hutton.

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Activity on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Sid Couchey (signed)

Inker(s): Sid Couchey (signed)

Letterer(s): ?

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

Notes: On inside front cover.

Laugh, Betty, Laugh

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney (signed)

Inker(s): Odgen Whitney (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): John Duffy ?

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Synopsis: bio of Betty Hutton

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Pages: 6

Hollywood Wants You

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): Ben Oda

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Synopsis: Talent scouts look for new faces for the movies.

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Pages: 4

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.

What's with the Crosbys?

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Everett ?

Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)

Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Bill Everett

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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The Bill Everett Archives #2 published September 2013
as What's with the Crosbys? [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

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.

Hollywood's Cinderella Girl

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Synopsis: bio of Joan Evans

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Pages: 2

A Star Looks Heavenward

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney (signed)

Inker(s): Ogden Whitney (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Synopsis: bio of Colleen Townsend

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Pages: 4

No Swan Song for Swanson

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jim Mooney ?; Irv Novick ?

Inker(s): Sy Barry ?; Jim Mooney ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Synopsis: bio of Gloria Swanson

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Pages: 6

Notes: Formally attributed to John Prentice.

Stunts That Made Stars

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Everett ?

Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)

Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Bill Everett

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

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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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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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney (signed)

Inker(s): Ogden Whitney (signed)

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Subject Matter

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

Notes: On back cover.