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Issue: Pep Comics #40 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1943
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Issues: #40 of 136 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An MLJ PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/28/1943
Volume: 1
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
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. 3.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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Bulletin No. 19

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Joe Higgins (The Shield)]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Shield G-Man Club
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Pages: 1
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Introducing Monstro the Monster From Mars

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Monstro (introduction, a Martian)
Synopsis: A man from Mars comes to Earth, but folks think it's another Orson Wells gag.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Story set in the town of Brookhattan.
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The Case of the Singing Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Phillips (villain, introduction); Herb Cook (introduction, death in flashback); Rosalind Cook (introduction, death)
Synopsis: A radio announcer and control man are murdered, while they are on the air.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Note on splash page signed by Harry Shorten, editor. Story signed "By Bob Fuje".
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Blackmail

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Roger Callway; Donald Callway; Bill Cramer
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Pages: 2
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The Conga Goes To War

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Genres: military, superhero
Character(s): a Japanese Captain (villain, introduction, death); a tribe of South Sea Islanders (introductions, some deaths)
Synopsis: Captain Commando and the Boy Soldiers' transport ship has sunk off the Solomon Islands.
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Pages: 9
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Archie Comics

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Archie Comics promotional advertisement. "A Smashing Success! The New Archie Comics..." Features circle spot illustrations of Archie, Jughead and Veronica.
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Pages: 1
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The Peerless Pitcher of Mudcat

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Character(s): Catfish Joe (introduction); his mother (introduction); Alex (introduction); Prof. Otto K. Balderdash (introduction); A prison warden (villain, introduction); the sheriff of Mudcat (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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The Mountain Lion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Higgins
Inker(s): Higgins
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Li'l Chief Bugaboo (introduction); Fido (introduction); Bugaboo's mother; Bugaboo's brother
Synopsis: Bugaboo meets a mountain lion.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Previous indexer thought Theresa Woik [Szenics] wrote this series, even though she is not known to have written any comics, and Dave Higgins is known to have written comics.
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Batching It

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: Archie and Mr. Andrews run the house while Mrs. Andrews is on vacation. Unfortunately, the guys are not the best housekeepers.
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In Issue: FlagArchie Archives #2 published October 2011
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Pages: 6
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Adventure of the Inner Temple

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Character(s): Ridgely (villain, introduction, death); the "Sphinx Men" (villains, introductions); Edwin Meecham (introduction, death); Haskins (introduction, death); Lewis (introduction)
Synopsis: Bentley tells a story of what happened while he was in Egypt a few years earlier.
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Pages: 5

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