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Issue: Headline Comics #8 (20)

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Publication Date: July 1946

Detail

Issues: #8 (20) of 77 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Prize

Brand: A Prize Publication

Indicia Publisher: American Boys' Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/07/1946

Volume: 2

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from 1946-1947 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Format

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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Content Items (9 total)

[untitled]

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Character(s): Junior Rangers

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Pages: 1

Swamp-Rat Killer

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Character(s): Junior Rangers

First Line: Reckon the lads are on this train, sheriff!

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Pages: 10

Notes: Art is consistent with Kane’s Wildcat art signed under “Gil Stack” from Sensation Comics #70-72 (1947), including his tall and burly characters with lanky arms and the antihelix of the ear drawn as a crescent shape. Previous indexer tentatively credited Henry Kiefer.

The Affair of the Bogus Bills

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Character(s): Carrot Topp

First Line: I'm a failure - - - that's what!

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Pages: 8

[untitled]

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Genres: informational, non-fiction

Feature(s): Picture Queries!

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Pages: 1

A Prize Publication

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First Line: Your guarantee of the best in comic magazines!

Synopsis: House ad for four Prize Group comics, with cover reproductions

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The Great Plane Robbery

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Genres: adventure, aviation

Character(s): Buck Saunders

First Line: Well, here we are in the wild west where men are men

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Pages: 8

Beast of Prey

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Jose Amorta (chief of detectives)

First Line: The lush green jungles of Venezuela have been slowly pushed back, but on against the stubborn resistance of Nature at her wildest.

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Genres: crime, teen

Character(s): Rudy Rawls [Copy Boy] (last appearance)

First Line: Shunted into temporary exile by a cynical editor...

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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Atomic Man [Adam Mann]; Dr. Mendez; Dr. Fletcher; Group of Fascists [Ramon; others un-named] (villains)

First Line: An assassin's bullet strikes down a leading Latin-American liberal...

Synopsis: A group of Fascists in a South American town seriously wound a doctor who, they believe, is selling them out to the Americans. Atomic Man stops an assault on a power plant providing the power to the hospital where Dr. Mendez is being operated on.

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In Issue:

Men of Mystery Comics #91 published January 2013

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Pages: 8

Notes: Kane pencil and Krigstein ink credits per Frank Motler via the Comic Book Historians Facebook page (21 December 2020).