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Issue: Headline Comics #1 (1)

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Publication Date: February 1943

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Issues: #1 (1) of 77 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Prize

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: American Boys' Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/15/1942

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)

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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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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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Content Items (12 total)

Begin the Jr. Rangers

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Character(s): Junior Rangers [Smokey; Roger; Chan; etc.] (first appearance)

First Line: Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased...

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Pages: 20

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

First Line: You say you're 236 years old?

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Pages: 1

Cliff Gordon the Wonder Boy

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Character(s): Cliff Gordon (first appearance)

First Line: Just as necessity is the mother of invention, so will a country's need...

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Pages: 7.5

Notes: Tentative art ID from JVJ index card attached to online scanned version: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=25126

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Happy Day (first appearance); Scrappy (first appearance); Mom Day

First Line: Gee, Scrappy - I wish I was old enough to join the army...

Synopsis: Happy and his dog Scrappy collect scrap for the war effort.

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Pages: 2

Notes: JVJ index card attached to online scanned version says Ken Browne is aka Terry Gilkison.

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Genres: childrens, crime

Character(s): Little Johnny Doolittle (first appearance); Mother Doolittle; Elmer Doolittle; Lumpy Moran; Mr. Schultz; Lester Clinton; Mr. McCabe; May Sherman; Tom; Mr. Rogers

First Line: Crime rears its ugly head in the presence of...

Synopsis: Young Johnny solves a murder and robbery.

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Pages: 8

Grandfather Clock

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Pages: 2

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Perry Allen (first appearance; Pan-American adventurer); Don Powers (his friend); Guido Paulo; Manuel

First Line: Swashbuckling Yankee adventurers they are...

Synopsis: Perry and his pal Don run into a Fifth Columnist in the jungles of Brazil.

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Pages: 8

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Private Messkit (first appearance)

First Line: Huh! 48 hour pass and not a dime to my name!

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Pages: 2

Notes: The byline is "Blaine" and this is writer Willis Blaine, according to Bails.

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): Buck Sanders; Fatty; Percy; Mr. Sanders; Geezle; Gorilla; The Mighty Midget; Sgt. Cork

First Line: It takes all kinds to make the world.

Synopsis: Buck and his friends foil the Mighty Midget, a Fifth Columnist crook trying to steal airplane plans.

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Pages: 8

Notes: app. between PRIZE COMICS #28 / 29

Calling All Readers!

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Synopsis: House ad for Prize Comics with cover reproductions

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Pages: 1

Notes: Cover of Prize Comics #v3#4 (28) (February 1943) is shown, with art by Jack Binder. No new art in this ad.

Boy's Life of General MacArthur

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Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction

Character(s): Douglas MacArthur

Synopsis: Biography of General Douglas MacArthur.

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Pages: 4

Notes: Art strongly resembles the signed Jack Binder war-hero bio story in issue 2. The JVJ index cards attached to the online scanned versions indicates this may be Binder shop work.