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Issue: Headline Comics #1 (13) Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1945
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Issues: #1 (13) of 77 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagPrize
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: American Boys' Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Samuel Bierman
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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
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Junior Rangers
First Line: Action - fun & thrills when the Junior Rangers go into the crime detection business
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Ten Easy Lessons In High Finance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Junior Rangers; John Giltdo (first appearance); J. P. Giltdo (first appearane)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Plane Silly

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, humorous, military
Synopsis: Four one-panel gag cartoons about military aviation.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Signed "Lee/Schertz." Bails suggests "SCHERTZ (artist) signed as LEE / SCHERTZ; LEE may be writer Lester Lee ."
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Topsy-Turvy World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Jo-Blo; Topsy-Turvy people
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: last app. in PRIZE COMICS #48
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The Wrong Kidnappers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Buck Saunders; Officer Flanagan (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Art is consistent with Paddock‘s signed work from New Adventure Comics #14-16 (1937) and Slapstick Comics #1 (1946), including Paddock‘s big eyes, long noses, and the way he draws the “S” inside the ear.
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George Washington: First in War

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Crest Wood]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): George Washington
Character(s): George Washington
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Hey, Nutzy, where are you running?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Bails suggests "SCHERTZ (artist) signed as LEE / SCHERTZ; LEE may be writer Lester Lee."
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Biff Bam Beeza!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Max the Magician (first appearance; origin)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: next app. in PRIZE COMICS #68
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Origin of the Blue Streak

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Blue Streak [Jim Dare] (first appearance; origin); Bobby Dare (first appearance; death); Kitty Dare (first appearance); Scarface and his gang (first appearance; villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Art is consistent with Alderman’s signed work from Prize Comics #55 (September 1945).

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