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Issue: Black Hood Comics #15 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1945
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Issues: #15 of 11 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: An MLJ MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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Contents Page

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Hood
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Pages: 1
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The Case of the Blood-Red Rubies

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sergeant McGinty; The Grand Lama (as a ghost, introduction, death in flashback); Henry Simpson (introduction, death); John Grant (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: The Ghost of The Grand Lama has murdered two men to get back his Blood Red Ruby.
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: The inking seems more like Shumaker, with the big, round black eyes, and much black in the panels.
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The Case of the Beautiful Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sergeant McGinty; Pretty Boy Frawley (villain, introduction); Hiram Robbins (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: $25.000 to win in contest to choose the handsomest man in U.S.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The inking is not by Novick, seems more like Shumaker. At this period of time Novick is only credited on pencils on this feature, and Shumaker and Weisbecker as inkers, according to Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Weisbecker can often be spotted by his angular jaws and chin.
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A Millionaire's Life

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Gloomy Gus; St. Pete (guest-star); Percy Goldsmith (tycoon); Jimmy Silvers (tycoon)
Synopsis: St. Peter wants substitutes for two dying tycoons to prevent a stock-market panic.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Gerald Kean is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but no period of time stated, and Virginia Bloch for 1943.
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A Nickel's Worth of Murder

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Mr. Collins; Robert Jordan (bookkeper)
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The Case of the Friendly Murder

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sergeant McGinty; Bill Fix (villain, introduction); Rib Robbins (introduction, death); Al McLean (introduction); Clarence Jordan (introduction)
Synopsis: Kip is invited to the class of '39 reunion.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: reworked version of Shield story in PEP COMICS #43; Black Hood graduated college in 1939, making him 29 years old by this story
Signed Everett Raymond on last page.

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