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Issue: World Famous Heroes Magazine #4
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #4 of 4 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Corporation of America
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Very similiar to Famous Funnies "Heroic Comics". Contains short stories about famous people at the time of publication. Indexed from a coverless copy (publication information taken from Statement of Ownership and Management).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Joe Petrosino

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Synopsis: New York City's great detetive who saved an innocent man from the electric chair and helped break up the deadly gang of criminals know as the "Black Hand"
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Napoleon's Russian Campaign

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The Mounties-Saga of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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The Wasp

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Synopsis: In 1814-the Wasp with 22 guns and 170 men under Captain Johnson Blakeley of South Carolina was one of the most feared American sea raiders.
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Louis Daguerre Father of Photography

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Casey Jones

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Molly Pitcher-Gunner Girl of the American Revolution

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Heroine In the News-Marlene Dietrich

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Jumbo A True Hero of the Circus

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Synopsis: The biggest elephant in the world is bought by P. T. Barnum.
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Fitzsimmons the Hero of the 1941 Baseball Season

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Synopsis: Freddie Fitzsimmons pitched the greatest game of his career during the World Series in 1941 between the Dodgers and the Yankees
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Disclose Notes: Signed on the bottom-right newspaper in the splash page’s first panel.
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Alice Nelson

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Synopsis: Alice Nelson of Marble Falls, Texas saves her Mother, Sister, and Brother from an alligator.
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Wild Bill Hickok

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