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Issue: Speed Comics #26 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1943
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Issues: #26 of 33 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Family Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: four color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (except #14-16, which are pocket-size)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched (except #14-16, which are squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Berlin

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Freedom (Dan Wright)
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Pages: 1
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The Convoy Sabotage Caper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): MCaptain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; ax Thonig (introduction, death); Borgam (villain, introduction, an impostor); the Nazis (villain)
First Line: There's too many of them Cap, we're licked!
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Pages: 8
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The Kidnapping of Shirley Dimple

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ted Parrish Man of 1000 Faces; Fish (villain, introduction); Jose (villain, introduction); other Nazi spies (villains, introduction)
First Line: Kidnapping is bad enough...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Ted Parrish" feature.
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Daffy Drafty Becomes a Reporter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Daffy Drafty; Lieutenant Pinksheet; "Day" Nurse Caroline; "Night" Nurse Betty
First Line: No news is good news!
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: last appearance
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The Professor and the Fiendish Four, Part ?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Character(s): Padlock Homes; Dr. Watsis; The Professor (villain); the Fiendish Four (villain)
First Line: Do you mean to tell me, my dear Watsis...
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Flossie
First Line: I'd like a demonstrashun, if ya don't mind
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Character(s): Biff Bannob; The Admiral
First Line: If you think this is easy--try it in your bathtub some Saturday night!
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Pages: 6
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The Case of "The Floating Corpses"

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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Rick Horne; The Japanese (villain)
First Line: It's...It's a soldier's body...
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Pages: 8
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Hitler's Ace in the Hole

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; Adolf Hitler (villain); Gen. Von Vuncen (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villain)
First Line: If Adolf could have forseen this day,..
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Signature down right hand edge of splash page is Sam Glanz.
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Attack on the Nazis in Norway

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Girl Commandos [Tanya; Mei-Ling; Penelope Kirk; Ellen Billings; Pat Parker]; The Nazis; Olaf Swenson (introduction)
First Line: In England, the Girl Commandos gaze on their new plane with admiring eyes.
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In Content Item: FlagWar Heroes Classics #1 published June 1991
as The Nazi Base at Haugesund, Norway [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pat Parker makes her last costumed appearance in this story.
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The Story Behind the Cover

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Freedom
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]
First Line: Don Wright, crusading young newspaper publisher...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.67
Disclose Notes: The balance of page two is taken up with the annual Statement of Ownership.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Flossie; Mr. Blye
First Line: Flossie's sending a package to a neighbor who's in the Army!
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Pages: 1
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Speed Joins the Marines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Speed Taylor; Joe Burns (villain, introduction); Tim Brown; the Nazis (villain); Tubby
First Line: One week in the U. S. Marine Corps and bang!
Synopsis: Speed and Tubby join the Marines.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Signature spotted by Saltarella and submitted via the GCD Error Tracker.
Feature Logo on this story is "Speed Taylor of the U. S. Marines"

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