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Issue: Jumbo Comics #59 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #59 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: Fiction House MagazinesView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/05/1943
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); S. M. Iger (Art Director)
Disclose 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."

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: 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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Kraal of Shrunken Heads

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Kraal of Shrunken Heads

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; Luando
First Line: The moon shone palely on a strangely silenced...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The title is taken from the cover.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Major Thorpe]
Inker(s): ? [Iger shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action
Character(s): ZX-5; Nomura; Baron Sado; Capt. Payne; Palrang
First Line: In captured Manila Harbor six crippled Jap battleships...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Possibly John Cassone is drawing the women.
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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): Jeremy; The Hawk; Lyla; Sir Blake
First Line: By the great horn spoon, what manner of...
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis]
Inker(s): ? [Iger shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Stuart Taylor
Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Laura Hayward; Dr. Hayward; Capt. Smythe; Papa Snodgrass; Charity Crabtree; Yvette Smythe; Prudence Snodgrass
First Line: Stuart, Laura, and Doctor Hayward get ready for...
Synopsis: Stuart and the Haywards travel back in time to Salem during the witchcraft scare.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Hints of Art Peddy, Arnold Hicks, even Lee Ames, but only Ames is strong enough to suggest as penciller.
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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): Midnight (horse); Nellie (horse); Helen Benson; Bart; Rick
First Line: Flat Top Mesa, a blinding snowstorm...
Synopsis: Helen is tossed off of her horse, Nellie, and is rescued by Midnight from wolves and from freezing.
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Pages: 6
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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; Lansing; Governor Mason; Silverman; Laverne Marrymore; Mrs. Mason; Creep
First Line: Inspector Dayton! Lansing, the notorious killer will be...
Synopsis: Laverne kills the governor because he refused to commute Lansing's sentence.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Indications of Nina Albright and, in places, Alex Blum.
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Speaking of Africa...

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tom Alexander
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Chuck; Ronnie
First Line: Ronnie and Chuck huddled together in a shallow foxhole in the middle of the vast northern desert.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The house name 'Tom Alexander' was used at times 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): Sue; Ruth; Jim; Mr. Mason; Meg; Drew Murdoch; Tommy
First Line: It was midnight outside the proud old mansion...
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Pages: 10

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