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Issue: Yellowjacket Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1944
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Issues: #1 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: The Frank Comunale Publishing Company
On Sale Date: 07/26/1944
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On sale date taken from stamp on comic book currently in the image archive.

Cataloged from a scan at Digital Comics Museum.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Adult Image
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Yellowjacket (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics #[nn] published January 2008
as Yellowjacket Comics #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Yellowjacket [Vince Harley] (introduction; origin); Judy Graves; Jake Mallon (gang boss)
First Line: All things have a beginning --
Synopsis: A gang of crooks chasing a girl, enter the house of Vince Harley, crime fiction writer and beekeeper. The girl slips away and the gang decide to finish Vince off by dumping a hive full of yellowjacket bees inside his house. He is immune to bee stings, can even control them, and gets the idea of how to fight the gang in a yellowjacket outfit.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHot 'N Cold Heroes #1 published January 1990
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The crude figures and faces are similar to Battefield's credited stories in this series.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Diana the Huntress (introduction); Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia
First Line: Mount Olympus -- the hall of the gods...
Synopsis: On Mount Olympus, Zeus decides to let the gods come to the aid of the Allies in their fight against Japan and Germany. Diana is to help them in Greece.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The art here is similar to Schrotter's signed story in Heroic Comics (Eastern, 1943 series) #38. He has some special scrolls in the ears.
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Message for the Cops

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Black Cat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (adaptation)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Pluto (black cat)
Synopsis: Adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat"
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In Content Item: FlagThe Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics #[nn] published January 2008
as The Black Cat! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The very open eyes and soft, rounded inking and also movement is similar to Allison's many credited stories, like Blue Circle Comics #2, Camera Comics #1, Cowboy Western #38.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Washington was first president of the U.S.
Synopsis: Three trivia facts with illustrations
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Danny King (introduction); Russo; Lucy Flair; Whip Chandler
First Line: Danny King -- the King of the Beasts -- finds he must seize his whip from the hand of death!
Synopsis: A lion tamer is fired for being drunk, and Danny King gets his chance to handle the big cats and the vengeful ex-lion tamer.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: DeLay can be recognized by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations.
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The Man Who Should Have Died

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Jack
Synopsis: A sailor is taken captive aboard a Nazi u-boat and lives to tell his story.
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Pages: 6
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Better count the crew, captain -- I just found the bomb bay doors open!
Synopsis: 8 gag panels
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Juan Manito [Filipino Kid]; Felipe
First Line: Peril strikes at the Phillipines from Japan --
Synopsis: The Japanese march into Manila, and Juan takes up the fight against them.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Art was previously attributed to Gerald Altman, but the way the eyes, teeth, and ears are drawn more closely resembles those of Chu’s in his Green Turtle art from Blazing Comics (1944-1945). Some of the lettering on the torii on the splash page also matches the lettering on his signed Late Summer painting from 1934: http://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2014/01/about-artist-chu-f-hing.html

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