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Issue: Target Comics #1 [37] Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1943
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Issues: #1 [37] of 105 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagNovelty / Premium / Curtis
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Novelty Press Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/30/1942
Volume: 4
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stanley Beaman (uncredited)
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 U. S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Ghost Came to Life

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Jordan (signed)
Inker(s): John Jordan (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Cadet
Character(s): Dan Merry; Kit Carter
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Ye Editors' Page
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes letter from Peter Morisi, Brooklyn, NY.
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The Ghost Came to Life

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Cuthbert] (signed)
Penciller(s): John Jordan (signed)
Inker(s): John Jordan (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Cadet
Character(s): Kit Carter; Dan Merry
Synopsis: Kit meets redhead Glenda Blake at a social, but soon has to rescue her when she is abducted by would-be thieves.
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Pages: 12
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Art Gates (signed)
Inker(s): Art Gates (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Al T. Tude
Character(s): Al T. Tude; Willie Rodent (villain)
First Line: Study these faces!!
Synopsis: Lawyers tell Al T. Tude that he has been left a fortune by his recently-deceased uncle. The Uncle's will requires Al to prove his worth, though, by besting the cut-throat Willie Rodent in a race to the hidden treasure.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Daly
Inker(s): John Daly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bull's-Eye Bill
First Line: How'd he die, Uncle Ike?
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Pages: 6
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Gulliver's Travels Part 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jonathan Swift; ? (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Harold DeLay
Inker(s): Harold DeLay
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Fantastic Feature Films
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Pages: 6
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A Pinch of Salt

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Justin Dewey Triem
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Ryan
Inker(s): Ed Ryan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dan'l Flannel
Character(s): Dan'l Flannel; Abu the Mystic; Uncle Dud
First Line: Sech be-e-ootiful teeth!
Synopsis: Dan'l sees Abu the Mystic's show when the circus comes to town, and Abu becomes grateful when Dan'l saves him from robbers. In return, Abu grants Dan'l mental powers. Dan'l reads his Uncle Dud's mind and becomes disturbed by what he sees there.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Edward Ryan (signed); Sid Greene (in collaboration with...)
Inker(s): Edward Ryan (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Target and the Targeteers
Character(s): Adolf Hitler (dies this story); Niles Reed (the Target); Ed Ryan (the artist as himself); Satan; God (portrayed as an electrically charged cloud with protruding hands)
First Line: He proclaimed himself God...
Synopsis: Bizarre story, narrated by Niles Reed (The Target) to Ed Ryan in which The Target captures Hitler with the plan of bringing him back to the American justice system. On the way back, God appears to them as a speaking cloud with protruding hands, and puts Hitler through a series of trials before releasing him into a hail of Nazi machine gun bullets.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Ed Ryan draws himself into the story
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Warren
Penciller(s): Jack Warren [as Vincent] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Warren [as Vincent] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Warren
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Speck, Spot, and Sis
First Line: Speck's one great interest in life these days is his gang
Synopsis: Speck's annoying little sister out-performs him in selling war saving stamps, and Speck sees that his hold on the gang's leadership is slipping.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Fagaly (signed)
Inker(s): Al Fagaly (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Pete Stockbridge, The Chameleon
Character(s): Pete Stockbridge [The Chameleon]
First Line: The scoop of the year gives Pete Stockbridge his biggest heartache...
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Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Oliver (signed)
Inker(s): Norman Oliver (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Targetoons
First Line: Go scare someone to death
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The possibility exists that "Norman Oliver" is a pen-name of Martin Filchock.

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