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Issue: Jumbo Comics #55

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Publication Date: September 1943

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Issues: #55 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

Brand: Fiction House Magazines

Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 07/26/1943

Volume: none

Pages: 60

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): S. M. Iger (Art Director)

Notes: The page count [60 pages] is correct. There are four sheets in the front "half" of the book that do not wrap around the rear "half." Note also that Iger returns to indicia as art director and Byrne is now gone.

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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Format

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

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (9 total)

Bait for the Silver King-Cat

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Art Saaf

Inker(s): Art Saaf

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): Sheena; Bob

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Pages: 1

Bait For the Silver King-Cat

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as W. Morgan Thomas]

Penciller(s): Robert Webb

Inker(s): Ann Brewster ?; [shop]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Sheena

Character(s): L'upa; Zubi; Riba; Chim (chimpanzee); Sgt. Reginald Austin; Sheena; Bob Reynolds

First Line: Red shines the hot African sun on the...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

Notes: The story title is taken from the cover.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Major Thorpe]

Penciller(s): Robert Webb ?; Nina Albright ?

Inker(s): ? [shop]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action

Character(s): La Martinique; Lt. Stoltz; ZX-5; Nazis

First Line: Nazi cunning builds a fiendish pyre under Sweden's...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Possibly just Albright and shop mimics since some panels resemble Astarita, Blum and others.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Willis B. Rensie]

Penciller(s): Robert Webb

Inker(s): ? [shop]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Feature(s): The Hawk

Character(s): Duke Chianti; Fluth; Caleb; Jeremy; Lady Hamill; One-eye; Hawk

First Line: What sinister intrigue throws a pall over the...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis]

Penciller(s): Robert Webb ?

Inker(s): Lee Ames ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor

Character(s): Laura Hayward; Dr. Hayward; Lafayette; Stuart Taylor

First Line: In the glorious annals of America's early history,E

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Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as West Erner]

Penciller(s): Alex Blum

Inker(s): Alex Blum; ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Midnight The Wild Black Stallion

Character(s): Rick; Helen; Shorty; Midnight (horse)

First Line: Let no desperado plotter or foe of Rick...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Geo. Thatcher]

Penciller(s): Rafael Astarita ?; Nina Albright ?

Inker(s): ? [shop]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Dayton

Character(s): Queenie; Johnnie; Inspector Dayton; Joe; Margy Smart

First Line: With the shadow of death hovering over the...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Interesting inker here. Art is not by Robert Webb.

Angels of the Deep

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Tom Alexander

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Jim Tyler; Clive Coburn

First Line: Throughout the ages the sea has washed to our...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Drew Murdoch]

Penciller(s): Alex Blum

Inker(s): ? [shop]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Ghost Gallery

Character(s): Uncle Marvin Hall; Francine; Mr. Kohler; Zachary; Mrs. Weaver

First Line: Someday on a lonely road you may find...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: The inker here maintains the Bob Hebberd feel of this strip.