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Issue: Startling Comics #2 (20) Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1943
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Issues: #2 (20) of 53 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/19/1943
Volume: 7
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines
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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Binder
Inker(s): Jack Binder
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Pyroman
Character(s): Pyroman [Dick Martin]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Venom and the Black Boas Attack

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Battefield
Inker(s): ? [as AA] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Pyroman
Character(s): Venom (villain); Black Boas [Diedrich; Voss; others] (villains, introduction); Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Artist previously identified as Jack Binder. Many signs of Ken Battefield in the art, but he is either one of several pencillers (a shop job), or has one or more inkers who could be signing as "AA". Identical "AA" signatures can be found on the splash pages to Pyroman in America's Best Comics #5 (also with art by Ken Battefield) and The Tarantula in DC's Star Spangled Comics #17. No Battefield art is apparent in that story which makes me believe that "AA" is the inker.
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When Strikes the Scorpion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Battefield
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fighting Yank
Character(s): The Scorpion (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Artist previously identified as possibly Alex Schomburg.
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For Freedom

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lew Williams
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Lew Williams
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Ionizer Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Alderman
Inker(s): Jack Alderman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Future
Character(s): Nishi (villain, introduction, death); Karl (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 8
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The Dwarf Attacks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth
Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Four Comrades
Character(s): Black Satan (villain); the Dwarf (villain, introduction, death?)
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Pages: 10
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt (signed)
Penciller(s): Kin Platt (signed)
Inker(s): Kin Platt (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Happy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Refugee Boy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Johnston Carroll
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Johnston Carroll
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Origin of the Oracle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Oracle
Character(s): The Oracle [Bob Paxton] (introduction, origin); Nazis (villains)
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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: humorous
Feature(s): Slip Ahoy
First Line: You bet, son!
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Pages: 2
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Boy Volunteer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): James Jackson
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): James Jackson
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Don Davis
Character(s): Brandt (villain, introduction, death); Weber (villain); Nazis (villain, introduction, some death); Axis agents (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: In San Francisco --
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Pages: 6

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