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Issue: Jumbo Comics #54 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1943
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Issues: #54 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/18/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): John F. Byrne (Editor)
Disclose Notes: Brand emblem has the Fiction House bull's eye but is missing the text.

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: black and white (#1-8); color (#9 onwards)
Dimensions: tabloid:10.5 x 14 1/2 (#1-8); 8.5 x 10.5 inches (#9); standard Golden Age U.S. (#10 onwards)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagSheena, Queen of the Jungle #5 published January 1949 as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Congo Kill

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Congo Kill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as W. Morgan Thomas]
Inker(s): [Iger shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Chim (chimpanzee); Queen Thara-an; Ashor; Ganvar; Manji
First Line: Beyond the pinnacles of the painted cliffs...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the cover.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Major Thorpe]
Penciller(s): Nina Albright ?; ?
Inker(s): [shop]; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action
Character(s): La Martinique; Benito Mussolini; Don Venardi; ZX-5; Nazis
First Line: Off the dark coast of Italy... We'll have...
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Some effort is made early on to mimic Mort Leav, but it is soon abandoned. Signs of Blum and Webb probably indicate shop mimics. Albright seems to be the most obvious contributor.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Willis B. Rensie]
Inker(s): [Iger shop]; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): The Hawk; The Slasher; Fluth; Jeremy; Caleb
First Line: Devil-infested are the waters that wash the...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Here, also, Webb indications are probably the result of shop mimics. A great appreciator of ships, it's likely that Webb drew these or that they were lifted from those he'd rendered in earlier episodes.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis]
Penciller(s): Alex Blum ?; ? [Iger shop]
Inker(s): Lee Ames ?; ? [Iger shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Stuart Taylor
Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Laura; Dr. Hayward; Nero; Stuart Taylor
First Line: Space is breached and time rolled back by...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as West Erner]
Inker(s): [Iger shop]; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Midnight The Wild Black Stallion
Character(s): Rick; Helen; Hank; Bart
First Line: The black market! This is the latest menace...
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Very awkward pencils with wildly disproportioned figures and horse - one more indication that it is unlikely that Blum was drawing the horses. He usually had shop specialists assist on his animal art.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as George Thatcher]
Inker(s): ? [Iger shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Inspector Dayton
Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Gardenia Clay; Joe Daly; Creep
First Line: From a grim prison cell, the scheming...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Shrouds of Ice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tom Alexander
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Fields; Roberts
First Line: Fields stood on a quiet corner in the darkness.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The house name 'Tom Alexander' was used on occasion for stories by both Ruth Roche and Toni Blum.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Drew Murdoch]
Inker(s): ? [Iger shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Ghost Gallery
Character(s): Gloria; Dale; Poirett; Dixon; Captain Voorhis; Mrs. Poirett
First Line: Gloria and Dale...song and dance team...follow...
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The inkers are still attempting to mimic Bob Hebberd. A shop artist [Cassone or ?] is drawing the girl.

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