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Issue: Thrilling Adventure Stories #2
Publication Date: August 1975
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagSeaboard
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Seaboard Periodicals Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/07/1975
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jeff Rovin (editor-in-chief); Richard Meyers (assistant editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from internal document posted by Paul Kupperberg to Facebook on 17 September 2019 detailing release dates for various Atlas publications. Other information for this issue from that document:
Date material due at World Color Printers: March 8, 1975.
Date shipping of comic started: April 15, 1975.
Copies printed for U.S.A. and Canada: 100,000.
Copies printed for England: 25,000.
Total copies printed: 125,000.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: Magazine
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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The Valley of Dinosaurs

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Nean (Kromag's mate)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Ishiro Shimura; Michael Croft ("Big Mike"); Abe Torry; PFC Robert "Bobby" Carson
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Table of Contents page includes credits, indicia and images from interior stories.
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Robbery!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Michaelson (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Character(s): Juan Torres; Jorgie
First Line: We are printing the following letter intact...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Temple of the Spider

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Ishiro Shimura; Harada Togo (death); Koji (death); male pilgrim (spider, death); female pilgrim (spider, death)
First Line: The battle had begun at dawn...
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In Content Item: FlagSwords of Valor #3 published January 1990
as The Temple Of The Spider [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Kromag Saga

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Nean (Kromag's mate); Bekmin (Kromag and Nean's young son); Kromag's brother (cameo); two other females
First Line: The sky grows heavy with elemental fury...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Tough Cop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Character(s): Michael Croft ("Big Mike", retired police officer); Jimmy (police officer, Mike's nephew); Abe Torry (death); Mr. Torry (Abe's brother, death); Abe Torry's two henchmen (deaths of both)
First Line: You move quickly to the other side of the street...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Towering Inferno

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction, opinion
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Town Tamer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): PFC Robert "Bobby" Carson (U.S. soldier, death); Harve (U.S. soldier, death); Mueller (German soldier, apparent death)
First Line: France, 1944.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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A Job Well Done

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery, science fiction
Character(s): Officer Jeff Landers (death); Rog (Jeff's ex-partner); Police Commander Austin; Pat Landers (Jeff's wife); Todd Landers (Jeff and Pat's son); Weiss (drug dealer)
First Line: Good God!
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In Content Item: FlagMonsters Attack #5 published December 1990
as A Job Well Done [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story takes place in 1990.

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