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Issue: Headline Comics #2 (2) Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1943
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Issues: #2 (2) of 77 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPrize
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: American Boys' Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/22/1943
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: Index revised from a scan from http://digitalcomicmuseum.com.

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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Nip the Nippons!

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First Line: The Jr. Rangers, Uncle Sam's battling nephews, nip the Nippons!
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Fun - Sport - Thrills - Games

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Disclose Notes: Send $1.00 for the book "Fun for Boys" from Knickerbocker Publishing Co., Dept. B-153, 98 Liberty St., N.Y.C.
Inside front cover.
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Monk (first appearance, death)
First Line: The Junior Rangers! Symbol of American fighting youth!
Synopsis: Japanese strategist The Monk implements a plan that will catch the US Army, led by Colonel Simms, inside a series of caves in the mountains between India and Burma. The Junior Rangers go behind enemy lines to discover the plan, meanwhile meeting Chin Lee, a Chinese ally, and adding him to their team. Despite their information not being believed by Colonel Simms, they manage to confront The Monk, killing him and decimating the Japanese troops before they have a chance to attack US Army forces.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Didn't I meet you in Blackstone's hat...
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The Adventure of the Blazing Underground

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Synopsis: Crushed by the news of his uncle's death by Nazis in France, Cliff flies his car-plane-boat to France and learns a French underground fighter is about to be executed by Nazis in the town square. He soon learns the man he saved is his uncle, Pierre Gordon. They Carry out a plan to blow up an office full of German officers, after which cliff returns to the United States.
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Win War Bonds for Your Ideas!

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Synopsis: 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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Character(s): Mr. Grouch
First Line: Happy, dear, I want you to go to the store for a loaf of bread!
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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens
Character(s): Tom Hansen (neighborhood kid); Mr. Hansen; Mrs. Hansen; Mr. Ferris; Slug (thug); Mike (thug)
First Line: With Johnny the boy brain trust to find it...
Synopsis: Johnny and Lumpy bring down an industrialist who is providing TNT to saboteurs.
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Under Ground

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Genres: war
Character(s): Jules Lemaire; Heinrich Adler
Synopsis: Leader of the French underground in Paris, Jules Lemaire and his men rescue their compatriots from being hanged, killing a squad of Germans in the process. Later, however, they are all caught in the sewers of Paris by Gestapo leader Heinich Adler.
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Antenor Toro; Ostria Ichazo (villain), Tamaso (henchman); Manuel (henchman); Pedro (henchman)
First Line: There was a time, long ago, when the freedom-loving Incas fled...
Synopsis: Perry and Don help a group of hard-working Incan mine workers keep their mine, while putting an end to a local corrupt sheriff's reign of terror.
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Disclose Notes: One of only two stories where the Feature Logo is "Perry Allen and His Pan-American Adventures".
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous, military
First Line: Ouch!" "Did oo cut oo lily white hand?
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[untitled]

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First Line: Tom Morgan is an American school-boy...
Synopsis: Tom Morgan is an adventurous schoolboy who enters Mr. Joseph's tailor shop and is told he can enter the back door of his shop and be transported thousands of years into the past into the days of the caveman. He is attacked by cavemen but is saved by Dak, a cave boy from another tribe. After Tom shows the tribe how to make fire with a bow and wood, Dak takes him back to where Tom emerged. Tom shows him the door that he came through to get to their land. Back at the tailor shop, Mr. Joseph tells Tom he can use his door to go to any place in time that he likes.
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Don't Miss This Daredevil, Exciting Issue!

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Synopsis: Promo for Prize Comics (Prize, 1940 series) #v3#5 (29) (March 1943).
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Disclose Notes: Cover of Prize Comics 29 reproduced, art by Jack Binder.
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General Thomas Holcomb U.S. Marine Corps

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Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction
Character(s): General Thomas Holcomb; Thomas Holcomb (father)(
First Line: Our leathernecks do not talk.
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Disclose Notes: Biography of General Thomas Holcomb of U.S. Marine Corps.
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Frail… Weak… Underdeveloped?

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Disclose Notes: Send $3.49 for Hercules Muscle Building Course and Exerciser Outfit from Institute of Physical Development, 30 West 60th Street, Dept. C51, New York, N.Y.
On inside back cover.
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Pick Your Prize

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Disclose Notes: Advertisement seeks sellers of seeds for prizes from Lancaster County Seed Co., Station 453, Paradise, Pa.
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