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Issue: Clue Comics #10 [10] Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1946
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Issues: #10 [10] of 15 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: A Hillman PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals Inc.
On Sale Date: 1946
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin [as Edward Cronin]
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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
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The Amazing Gun Master

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Fred Kida [as Kida] (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Kida [as Kida] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gun Master
Character(s): Gun Master
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The Birth of the Gun!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Kida ?
Inker(s): Fred Kida ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Gun Master
Character(s): Gun Master [Dumas Poe] (origin); Kattak Po (original Gun Master, flashback, death); un-named brother of Kattak Po (flashback); Kattak Po's son (flashback, death); Kattak Po's grandson (flashback); Captain Kane (of homicide); Velvet [as V. Silver] (villain, gun shop owner); Lefty Finger (villain); Duke Dillon (villain)
Synopsis: The original Gun Master, named Kattak Po, has his invention of gunpowder and iron tube which can fire a projectile (early example of a gun) is stolen from him, and the charge is made to his descendants to track down the criminal if they can, but, most importantly, commit their lives to stopping the use of this weapon. Now, the last able-bodied descendant of Kattak Po, Dumas Poe, carries on that tradition.
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Pages: 10
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The Man Who Lost His Face--

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Belfi (signed)
Inker(s): John Belfi (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime
Feature(s): Micro-Face
Character(s): Micro-Face [Tom Wood]; Gary Clark (actor); un-named plastic surgeon (death); "Pretty Boy" Baldwin (villain); Pinky (villain, one of Baldwin's gang, death); "The Butcher" (villain, death)
Synopsis: "Pretty Boy" Baldwin doesn't allow anyone better looking that himself remain in town. However, when a rival gang leader, "The Butcher", threatens Baldwin to stay out of his district and mars his face, "Pretty Boy" declares a gang war that will mean the death of "The Butcher"......unless Micro-Face can stop them.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony diPreta [as diPreta] (signed)
Inker(s): Tony diPreta [as diPreta] (signed)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Stupid Manny
First Line: Hercules was pretty strong...
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The Trap

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Wanted for Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nightmare and Sleepy
Character(s): Nightmare [Bob Whiyte] (a wrestler); Sleepy [Terry Wake] (White's teenage manager); Rooney (detective, White's pal); un-named Chief of Police; Chuck Harris (world champion wrestler); Sweeney (champion swimmer, death); Roy Nelson (champion boxer); Riles (boxer, mention only); Toro (a tiger); Skeik (a shark); Fargo (villain, death)
Synopsis: Nightmare and Sleepy investigate the disappearance of ten athletes who vanished in the span of one week and discover a man who pits the athletes in do-or-die battles so that others can bet on the event.
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Nero

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles W. Winter (signed)
Inker(s): Charles W. Winter (signed)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Pass to the Present
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The Story of Caleb Scott

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Fujitani ?
Inker(s): Bob Fujitani ?
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Letterer(s): ?
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