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Issue: Grand Slam Comics #52

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Publication Date: April 1946

Detail

Issues: #52 of 49 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited

Brand: Double 'A' Comics AA

Indicia Publisher:

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume:

Pages: 60

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 CAD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Jack Calder ?

Notes: Betty Mercer lettering credits in this issue based on "The War Years: Anglo-American Publishing Ltd" by Robert MacMillan in Canuck Comics (1986). Indicia states "Grand Slam", cover has "Grand Slam Comics".

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: two colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (9 total)

The Stolen Seal

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Commander Steel

Character(s): Commander Steel; Doctor Destine (inset); Red Rover (inset)

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Pages: 1

Traces the Stolen Seal!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Otto Binder

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Commander Steel

Character(s): Commander Steel; Carl Gossy

Synopsis: A spy steals an official government seal and Commander Steel sets off to find him.

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Pages: 13.67

Notes: Script credit per Binder in Alter Ego #147 (July 2017).

For Good Reading...

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Small promo for Three Aces Comics, with a small faked cover featuring The Purple Rider.

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Pages: 0.33

The Ledge of Death

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Doctor Destine

Character(s): Doctor Destine; Beverley

Synopsis: Doctor Desine is kidnapped and thrown off a cliff to prevent him from testifying in a case. He survives, finds two dead bodies and gets himself off the cliff. Investigating the deaths, he finds they might just be related to the case he was going to testify about. He and Beverly dress up as the victims to try to catch the killers.

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Pages: 14

The Killers Give A Party

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Taylor (credited)

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Vilma Courtney; Jack Osgood

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Les Gilpin ?

Penciller(s): Jay McKellar ?

Inker(s): Jay McKellar ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Sooper Dooper

Character(s): Sooper Dooper

First Line: The room clerk told me to take over for him while he's out to lunch...

Synopsis: Sooper Dooper acts as the front clerk at a hotel.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Gilpin and McKellar credits are guesses based on some signed Sooper Dooper comics.

The Spoilers of the South Seas

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Red Rover

Character(s): Red Rover; Knuckles

Synopsis: Red Rover and Knuckles go to the "city" to sell some pearls to pay for a new school, but instead end up tracking down opium smugglers.

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Pages: 14

Notes: Last 1/3 of a page is promo for next issue "Red Rover and Big Dan The Dope Czar of the South Seas".

Commander Steel of the International Police Service and the Klan Killers

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Betty Mercer ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Commander Steel

Character(s): Commander Steel; Herr Von Falkonhorst

Synopsis: A Nazi scientist has his men dress as vampire bats in Klu Klux Klan robes to scare the occupying soldiers in a small German city. Commander Steel gets himself captured by them and steals one of their winged-backpacks to defeat them.

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Pages: 10

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Synopsis: Four ad pages. Inside front cover has ad for various gizmos, with a Michigan address. First page has ad for various Captain Marvel toys with a Conn. address (with a note that "No Canadian orders accepted"). Inside back cover is ad for leather belt and wallet with a Chicago address and back cover is an ad for selling spot remover to win prizes with an Iowa address.

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Pages: 4

Notes: No Canadian ads in a Canadian published comic.