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Issue: Jumbo Comics #66 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1944
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Issues: #66 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: 06/12/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (7 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, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 3.
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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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Valley of Monsters

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Kaänga; Ann Mason
First Line: Why guess? Get the best!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. House ad for six Fiction House titles.
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Valley of Monsters

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; Geheta; Doranda
First Line: Beyond the swamps of Aro-Zan, beyond the lava...
Synopsis: Geheta must retrieve the Golden Sceptre from the Juju Temple in order to succeed his father as chief of M'Hombe Village.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The story 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
Character(s): ZX-5; Jones; Nazis
First Line: This is the spot, Captain! And you're sure...
Synopsis: ZX-5 investigates a mysterious water spout, which leads him to a Nazi plot to build a tunnel to England beneath the English Channel.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Definitely pencils & inks by Gus Schrotter on final panel. He's not obvious elsewhere, but it's very likely that he's here.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ? (Iger shop)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): Capt. Hawk; Velvet; Jeremy; Caleb; Tartar Jack
First Line: Well, lass...there ye stand...twixt two flags...
Synopsis: Capt. Jack pulls the Lady Scarlett into port and Velvet runs into an old acquaintance.
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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): The Creep and Inspector Dayton
Character(s): The Creep [Napoleon]; Inspector Dayton; Gordon; Count Blackton [Blackie]
First Line: Come, come, inspector. This wave of robberies sweeping...
Synopsis: Inspector Dayton is directed to solve a series of robberies targeting war benefits.
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Pages: 4.66
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: New enlargement
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Pages: 0.34
Disclose Notes: Ad for photo enlargement services by Dean Studios.
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Strange Wings

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Tom Alexander (credited)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Bill; Fred; General Ajima
First Line: Less than a half mile across from the Japanese supply station where constant sounds of...
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: The house name 'Tom Alexander' was used at time for stories by both Ruth Roche and Toni Blum.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: New strange glamour for your hair, dress, or coat
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for glowing flowers.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Laura Hayward; Dr. Hayward; Drusilla; Torquemada
First Line: My feet hurt, Laura! Haven't we seen enough...
Synopsis: Stuart and the Haywards travel back in time to fifteenth century Spain.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5.66
Disclose Notes: Fuller puts his initials, HKF, in the lower left corner of the map on page two.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Beautiful simulated birthstone ring given away
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Pages: 0.34
Disclose Notes: Ad salesmen for Gold Crown Products, featuring rings set with birthstones given as commissions.
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The Jennifer Kent Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Drew Murdoch]
Inker(s): ? (Iger shop)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Drew Murdoch; Franklyn; Jennifer Kent; Mrs. Busby; Claude
First Line: Confidential record from the files of Drew Murdoch.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Very good inks. Could this be Jack Kamen or Al Feldstein who is making Blum look so good?
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: These can be yours
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Free! with this amazing offer red and white wig wag signal flags and authentic code instruction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.
Ad for the Wonderscope telescope.

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