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Issue: Speed Comics #25 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1943
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Issues: #25 of 33 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Family Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/03/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: four color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (except #14-16, which are pocket-size)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched (except #14-16, which are squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; Speed Taylor; Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Girl Commando [Pat Parker]; Ted Parrish; Biff Bannon; Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]
First Line: Lade-ees and gentlemen...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Doctor Latour
First Line: Out of a vicious Gestapo plot...
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; The Nazi Lorelei (villain)
First Line: Out of the mists of the past...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
First Line: Don't you know any other poem than, thirty days hath September?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A series of unrelated gag panels by various artists, including Richter. Signatures on some are illegible, though one appears to be 'Harvey', while others are unsigned.
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Mystery of the Chinese Hospital Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Rick Horne; Garboil (film director)
First Line: Garboil, Hollywood's ace director...
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In Content Item: FlagSuper-Dooper Comics #6 published January 1946
as Mystery of the Chinese Hospital Ship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Chattanooga Choo Choo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Character(s): Biff Bannon; The Admiral
First Line: Nuthin' like a furlough...
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Pages: 6
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The Town Crier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Character(s): Ted Parrish; The Crier
First Line: A quaint old town with quaint old customs...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Author credit suggested by textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Speed Sticklers
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Pages: 1
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The Story Behind the Cover

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Freedom
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Joanie]; Zoviano
First Line: The four Young Defenders...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous, mystery
Character(s): Padlock Homes; Dr. Watsis; The Professor (villain); The Fiendish Four (villainous henchmen); Desmond Spitz (villain)
First Line: Hurry, fiends, he's caught up with us!!!
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The "Padlock Homes" feature formerly appeared in Champ Comics (Harvey, 1940 Series), but is now moving to Speed Comics with this issue.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Character(s): Daffy Drafty
First Line: What are you guys up to?
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Pages: 2
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Girl Commandos Outwit Ratzis

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero, war
Character(s): Inky Allen; Pat Parker; Ellen Billings; Tanya; Penny; Yvonne Aimable (introduction)
First Line: Copy boy!!
Synopsis: Pat, Tanya, and Penny return to a coastal village to rescue Penny, who has been captured and made to work in the Kropper factory. They recruit a French partisan, Yvonne, to smuggle them into the factory. When their rescue succeeds, they make Yvonne one of the Girl Commandos.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story takes place on or about Nov. 27, 1942.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Jourdain [as Jourdain] (signed)
Penciller(s): William Jourdain [as Jourdain] (signed)
Inker(s): William Jourdain [as Jourdain] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Flossie; Mr. Flug
First Line: We're goin' on a picnic - Mom gimme a list o' stuff to buy
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Roddy; Mrs. Blau; Farmer Smith
First Line: Seems like a big lawn for you to mow, Roddy!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, sports
Character(s): Speed Taylor; Tubby
First Line: Speed Taylor, Clayton College's ace athlete...
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Pages: 6

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