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Issue: Speed Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1939
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Issues: #1 of 11 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBrookwood
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Brookwood Publishing Company
On Sale Date: 1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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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 on-going series
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
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Pages: 1
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The Human Dynamo

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Blitzer (intro); Baron Von Kampf (villain; intro) zombies (villain; intro); Jane Starr
Synopsis: Charles Gibson gains superpowers and becomes a hero.
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Pages: 26
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The Three Aces

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Crash (intro); Cork (intro); the Baron (intro)
Synopsis: The heroes are hired to break up a band of murderers and thieves in Arabia.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Memorable line: "You fellows hang around in the background while I talk big...they're bound to expose themselves!"
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An Adventure With a Man-Eating Plant

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Writer(s): Edward Lambert
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Balak
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: illos by Powell?
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The Man of a Thousand Faces!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ted Parrish (intro; origin); A mad doctor (villain; intro); Joe
Synopsis: Actor Ted Parrish is tired of the soft roles he has been given, then has a real life adventure.
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Pages: 4
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The SQUALL Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Carl Larson]
Penciller(s): ? [as Carl Larson]
Inker(s): ? [as Carl Larson]
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spike Marlin (intro)
First Line: In a quiet little seaport on the coast of Maine, a battered old whaler lies at anchor.....
Synopsis: Spike signs onto a whaler that's hunting illegal whales.
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Fire in Children's Haven

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Smoke Carter (intro; a fireman); Leslie White
First Line: Fire breaks out in the 'Children's Haven,' orphange! Flames leap wildly!
Synopsis: Smoke suspects a connection when an orphanage supporter dies after a fire at the orphanage.
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The Coming of Landor

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Landor (villain; intro); Anthony Torrence (intro); Maria (intro)
First Line: On the peak of a storm-swept mountain, lashed by a howling gale, stands a forbidding old castle.....
Synopsis: Anthony and Maria take shelter at Landor's castle and discover he has made a monster.
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Genres: western
Character(s): Texas Tyler (intro); Baldy; Al; Pete; Pop Alden; Martha Alden; Big Nick
First Line: Big Nick's law was the law of the gun, and Bar 'X' cowhands fell before his smoking six shooters..... until Texas rode into town.......
Synopsis: Texas and Baldy help a rancher against Big Nick.
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Air Speed

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Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The air speed's of the Grumman single-seater biplane, the Douglas bomber monoplane, and the Curtiss single seat pursuit biplane.
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The Super-Death Invention

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Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): Biff Bannon (a Marine; intro); Truck Trenton; Joan Martin; Mr. Martin; Mr. Cubberly; Mr. White; Mr. Wolko
First Line: Surrounded by the deadly machine of war, a group of Americans grows impatient as they are stranded in a railroad station in China
Synopsis: Biff and Truck have to rescue some Americans trapped in China.
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Pages: 6
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Act now! On this bargain offer!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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