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Issue: Headline Comics #1 (1) Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1943
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Issues: #1 (1) of 77 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPrize
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: 16 (9 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: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Begin the Jr. Rangers

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Pages: 1
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Make Your Own Records at Home

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Bob
First Line: Hear yourself sing or play
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Send $2.98 for a home recording playback unit including six two-sided, blank records from Home Recording Company, Studio NP, 9East 19th St., New York, N.Y.
On inside front cover.
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Roger Ranger Sr. (first appearance, death); Roger Ranger Jr.'s mother (first appearance, death); Baron Blackheart (villain, first appearance, apparent death); Colonel Simms; Uncle Bob
First Line: Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased...
Synopsis: Roger Ranger Jr. watches his father and mother killed by Nazi Gestapo agent Baron Blackheart. He vows to avenge their deaths by opposing World War II Axis aggression but is rejected in his efforts to join up due to his youth. He joins with two similar-minded youths and forms the Junior Rangers. The trio is soon knee-deep in the fight against the Axis and Roger gets the chance to confront Baron Blackheart.
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Pages: 20
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[untitled]

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
First Line: You say you're 236 years old?
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Cliff Gordon the Wonder Boy

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Character(s): Mr. Lavell (German spy)
First Line: Just as necessity is the mother of invention, so will a country's need...
Synopsis: Cliff Gordon, young American patriot, invents a car-plane-boat which he tries to offer to an uninterested American council. Instead, Nazis attempt to steal it and it is up to Cliff to foil their plans.
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Pages: 7.5
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Win War Bonds for Your Ideas!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad soliciting letters from readers suggesting inventions to help win the war. Best invention wins a prize of $25.00. Send to Invention Editor, Headline Comics, 1790 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, humorous
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
Disclose Notes: JVJ index card attached to online scanned version says Ken Browne is aka Terry Gilkison.
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, crime
Character(s): 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 the murder and robbery of butcher Charles Mitchel.
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Pages: 8
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Grandfather Clock

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Letterer(s): typeset
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Guido Paulo (first appearance); Manuel (death)
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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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, military
First Line: Huh! 48 hour pass and not a dime to my name!
Synopsis: Private Messkit is offered a free hot dog to deliver a hotdog order to a building across the street.
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Genres: childrens
Character(s): Geezle; Gorilla; The Mighty Midget; Sergeant 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
Disclose Notes: app. between PRIZE COMICS #28 / 29
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Calling All Readers!

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Synopsis: House ad for Prize Comics with cover reproductions
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover of Prize Comics #v3#4 (28) (February 1943) is shown, with art by Jack Binder. No new art in this ad.
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General Douglas 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
Disclose 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.
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Jim Prentice Announces His Super Electric Football

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Disclose Notes: Send $2.00 for an electric football game from Electric Game Company Inc., 213 Bridge Street, Holyoke, Mass.
On inside back cover.
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Free With This Offer: 33 Power Telescope Lens Kit

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Send $1.98 for "Wonders of Science Simplified" and free telescope from Metro Publications, Dept. 582, 50 West 17th Street, New York.
On back cover.

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