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Issue: Guns of Fact and Fiction #[nn] [A-1 #13]
Publication Date: June 1948
 
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Issues: #[nn] [A-1 #13] of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMagazine Enterprises
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Enterprises Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/07/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia reads "A-1 #13 (Guns of Fact and Fiction)".
The date entered in the "On Sale Date" field is the copyright date derived from the actual Library of Congress copyright documentation (available on www.archive.org).
This issue is part of the A-1 series. Refer also to A-1 (Magazine Enterprises, 1945 series) #13.
Text from the cover is mentioned in the text on page 19 in "Seduction of the Innocent".
Details for issue index taken from scan at comicbookplus.com.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
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The West Thunders with the Roar of Guns of Fact and Fiction

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Genres: crime, western
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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First Line: Shop by mail
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Flame of the Frontier

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Genres: biography, western
Character(s): Bat Masterson; Wild Bill Hickok (cameo); Bill Tilghman; Ben Thompsen; Rusty Meers (death); Ed Masterson (death); Jim; Texas
Synopsis: A biography of Bat Masterson, focusing on his days in Dodge City.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story is told from the viewpoint of Bat Masterson's six-guns.
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Gunman!

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Joe Strange (death); Big Jim Fisher (death); Bob Goldman (boxer, death); McCoy (death); Bricker (death) Capt. Grath; Lt. Sam Fleischer; Jerry; Karen; Vince Colletti
Synopsis: The head of a gambling syndicate hires Joe Strange to knock off a boxer who didn't fix a fight. Strange makes the hit, but is paid off in marked bills from a robbery. This brings the cops in and Strange goes on a revenge killing rampage. But Strange's hatred of cats proves to be his downfall.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Indexer Saltarella thinks the art may be by Warren Kremer.
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Al Capone ["Scarface" Al Capone]; Tony Lombardo (death); Ferraro (death); Lolordo (death); George Moran [George "Bugs" Moran]; Joe Aiello; Jack McGurn; Doc Schwimmer (death); James Ray; Frederick Burke; Albert Anselmi (death); Joe Scalisi (death); Slimey; Frank; Peter; Junkie; Hyers; May; Quinta
First Line: For a number of years prior to the bloody massacre of St. Valentine's Day, Chicago was ruled by two rival gangs ...
Synopsis: The conflict between two gangs in Chicago leading up to the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" in 1929.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Saltarella says Walter Johnson is a possibility as artist.
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Guns West and Nuggets

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Genres: western
Character(s): Guns West; Nuggets; Whitey Carstairs; Rusty Dawson; Trigger (gunman); Sally
First Line: When "Guns" West and his pardner "Nuggets" get their cattle rustled outside wild Abilene...
Synopsis: Guns West and Nuggets take their cattle on a drive to Dodge City, but the herd is stolen outside Abilene and they intend to get them back. Guns is hired as marshal of Abilene, which makes him a target for Carstairs.
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Disclose Notes: Guns West and Nuggets are the names of the main characters. This might have been intended to be the start of a feature. Saltarella suggests the art may be by Charles Quinlan.
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Jail-Fear!

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Genres: biography, crime
Character(s): Charles Floyd [Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd] (death); "Red" Lovett; Sadie Baird; Beulah Baird; Tom Bradley; Marie Maxwell; Jack Atkins; Harland F. Manes (motorcycle policeman, death); Bill Miller [Bill "The Killer" Miller] (death); Rose Ash; William Ash (death); Wallace Ash (death); Caster (policeman); Chief Galliher (policeman); Thad B. Rowden (prohibition director); Curtis C. Burks (policeman, death); Glen Havens (policeman, death); C. L. Reidy (policeman, death); E. C. Anderson (prohibition agent, death); M. P. Wilson (death); Ed; Pete
First Line: Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was born in 1906 in Sallisaw, Oklahoma ...
Synopsis: After serving five years in the Missouri penitentiary, "Pretty Boy" will do anything and kill anyone to keep from going back to jail as he commits dozens of crimes all over the Midwest.
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Disclose Notes: Signed "John Craig" in the splash panel.
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Character(s): Gloria
First Line: Boys! - Girls! - Here's an amazing new combination ball pen and mechanical pencil that meets all your writing needs
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Disclose Notes: Ad for the Penman, a combination ball-point pen and mechanical pencil.
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Character(s): Jimmy
First Line: Amazing all-over rain-cover bargain
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for surplus army rain covers from Surplus Sales.

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