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Issue: America's Best Comics #2 (8) Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #2 (8) of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Nedor Publishing Company
On Sale Date: 11/11/1943
Volume: 3
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines]
Disclose Notes: Indicia info from a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 1.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Alex Schomburg
Inker(s): Alex Schomburg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Black Terror; American Eagle; Pyroman; Doc Strange
Character(s): Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Pyroman [Dick Martin]; Doc Strange [Thomas Hugo Strange]; American Eagle [Tom Standish]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Evil At the Observatory

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doc Strange
Character(s): Klutz (villain, introduction, death); Vilma (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains); Ruth (introduction); Billie (introduction); Doc Strange [Thomas Hugo Strange]; Mike Ellis; Virginia Thompson
First Line: If you were in trouble would Doc Strange find time to answer your appeal?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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The Zombie Ray

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Black Terror
Character(s): Muller (villain, introduction, death); Beltz (villain, introduction, death); Nazis (villains); Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim Roland; Jean
First Line: They murder! They loot!!
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Pages: 12
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Chinese Boy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Charles Roberts
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Wu Young; Wu Young's father
First Line: Wu Young was a fourteen-year-old Chinese boy who lived near the Burma-China border.
Synopsis: Wu is taken prisoner and held for ransom by Japanese soldiers.
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Pages: 1
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The Deadly Dwarf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Pyroman
Character(s): The Dwarf (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains); Pyroman [Dick Martin]; Joyce
First Line: America's wartime production already spells doom for the Axis!
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Pages: 12
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Yellow Mud

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sam Brant
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Jimmy Blue
Character(s): Jimmy Blue; Zack Hill; Jed Bradley
First Line: Jimmy Blue halted his little cowpony in front of the old prospector's cabin and...
Synopsis: Jimmy pays a visit to his friend, Zack, only to find that Jed Bradley has taken up residence in Zack's cabin.
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Pages: 1
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The Skywriting Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Liberator
Character(s): Prof. Pickard (introduction, death); Nazis (villains); Liberator [Nelson Drew]; Annabel Evans
First Line: Drew strolls with Professor Pickard across the university campus!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Snowbound

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Hale
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, war
Character(s): James Payne; Brad Cannon; Schultz
First Line: Fourteen-year-old James Payne and his uncle, Brad Cannon, were being held prisoners!
Synopsis: Nazi spies seize Brad's farm to utilize as a spy nest.
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Pages: 1
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The Stowaway Spy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Lucky Lawrence
Character(s): Nazis (villains); Lucky Lawrence
First Line: A Hollywood troupe is giving a show on Lucky's boat!
Synopsis: A Nazi agent sneaks aboard Lucky's ship and transmits its position to Nazi forces.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Appearance between THRILLING COMICS #39 / 40

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