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Issue: Thrilling Comics #38 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1943
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Issues: #38 of 80 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/17/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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. 4.
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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: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doc Strange [Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thompson; Nazis
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: bondage
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Commando Cubs [Ace Browning; Pokey Jones; Horace Cosgrove II; Whizzer Malarkey; Spud O'Shea]; Professor Musselbownd; Herr Erique von Schmeer (Nazi spy)
First Line: A grim plot, fiendishly executed by ruthless master-minds of the Axis!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Richard Hughes was previously credited with colours, but this was a result of a database glitch.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Doc Strange [Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thompson; Mike Ellis (Doc Strange's sidekick); Herr Heiss (Nazi spy); Signor Correalo
First Line: Extra! Axis agents threaten Pan-American co-operation...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Signal Trap

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Herbie Johnson
Character(s): Herbie Johnson; Doyle (crook)
First Line: Alone in the apartment...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Voice of Norway

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The American Crusader [Professor Archibald Masters, aka John Black]; Freida Johnson (Nord freedom fighter); The Voice of Norway; Jan Hansen (villain); von Berg (villain, Gestapo Chief of Norway); Ernest (villain); un-named Nazis (villains)
First Line: At his secret headquarters in France...
Synopsis: At his secret HQ in France, Professor Masters receives word from the American Secret Service to locate "The Voice of Norway", a man who will guide the Allied invasion of Norway.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #87 published January 2012
as The Voice of Norway [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Richard Hughes was previously credited with colours, but this was a result of a database glitch.

Keith Chandler : A stylised squiggle in the snow of the splash panel suggests artist initials of 'J K'.
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Tower Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Barry Custer; Mr. Custer (Barry's father)
First Line: Hurrying along toward the railroad signal station...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Ghost [George Chance]; Betty Morris; Professor Fenton (villain); the spirit of the Venerable Yogi
First Line: The Ghost's arch-rival, Prof. Fenton, hatches a plot!
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, superhero
Character(s): George Hale; Vickie Dale;
First Line: Exclusive story--a reporter's meal ticket!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: next app. in BLACK TERROR #8
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Desert Water

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Raymond Post; Professor Archibald Gainesborough
First Line: Thirteen-year-old Raymond Post...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Keith Chandler : Script was previously given as A. A. Hayes, evidently in error.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Woman in Red [Peggy Allen]; Inspector Cavanaugh
First Line: Inspector Cavanaugh and Peggy Allen discuss the scrap metal drive!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Richard Hughes was previously credited with colours, but this was a result of a database glitch.

Keith Chandler : Art was previously credited to George Mandel.

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