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Issue: Speed Comics #41 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1946
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Issues: #41 of 33 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Family Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: four color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US (except #14-16, which are pocket-size)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched (except #14-16, which are squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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The Human Airplane

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]
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Pages: 1
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Cub Reporters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Heist Hogan (Villain; Intro)
First Line: Hold on to your seats, gang!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Keith Chandler : A previous indexer attributed the art to 'Rudy Palais ?', but compare the style to the signed cover and it clearly is not his work.
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The God of Steel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; Colonel Mohandas Bagore; Vishnu (villain); The Japanese (villains)
First Line: Legendary is the sly deceitfulness of our Pacific enemy...
Synopsis: Shock is called into action by reports of Indian troops committing mutiny over the appearance of Vishnu the Destroyer.
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #83 published October 2010
as The God of Steel [Story on Interior Page(s)]in black and white
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Pages: 8
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The Human Airplane

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Freedom
Character(s): Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Professor Hugarb
First Line: The Globe-Girdler...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.8
Disclose Notes: The Story Behind the Cover

The balance of page two is taken up with the annual Statement of Ownership.
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.2
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A Pack of Trouble - King-Size!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous, sports
Character(s): Billy Bickerstaff (football fullback); Professor Dixon (Shirley's father); Shirley Dixon (Billy's date); Watson (the Dixon's butler); Tony (villain, an organ grinder); Tony's monkey (villain)
First Line: Science and circumstance collaborate...
Synopsis: Billy and Shirley head out on a date after Billy is told about her father's experiments to get animals to grow several times their own size. When Shirley's purse is snatched by an organ grinder's monkey, Billy chases the man into the Professor's lab, where he accidently receives an injection of the growth serum.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The last third of page seven has an illustrated ad for four Army and Navy related humorous magazines.

Keith Chandler : This is much more like the art style of Palais than attributed stories in previous issues.
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Biff Bannon's Furlough

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, war
Character(s): Biff Bannon; The Admiral
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Pages: 4
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The Sacred Tooth of Buddha

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tommy Buttersworth; "Soho" Smith; Mahatma Mohrandi
First Line: In this fast and furious tale...
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Pages: 8
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Treachery At the Top of the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Girl Commandos [Pat Parker; Tanya; Ellen; Penny; Mei-Ling]; General Yashimoto (Villain; Intro); the Japanese (Villain)
First Line: Here is a tale of a treaty torn...
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Pages: 8

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