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Issue: Best Comics #1
Publication Date: November 1939
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/01/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 429047.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 12" x 9"
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Adventures of the Red Mask
Character(s): The Red Mask; Silly Willie; Peggy Wow; Jigger; Happy; Pappy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Introducing the Red Mask

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George West
Penciller(s): George West
Inker(s): George West
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Red Mask
Character(s): The Red Mask (introduction) ; Robert Fear (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Red Mask is the first known published African-American comic book masked hero.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Happy
Character(s): Happy (introduction); Pappy (introduction, dog)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Loy Byrnes [as Roy B. Nyles]
Penciller(s): Loy Byrnes [as Roy B. Nyles]
Inker(s): Loy Byrnes [as Roy B. Nyles]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Silly Willie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Professor Flago tells the future

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Happy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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I'm just dying to take you thru the studio!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray McGill
Penciller(s): Ray McGill
Inker(s): Ray McGill
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Peggy Wow
Character(s): Peggy Wow (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Now playing: Buck Bones, "Desert Dust"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Happy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Chab of the Jungle

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Capt. Kerry McRoberts
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 3
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I sure do enjoy these nights out with the old gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Dorgan
Penciller(s): Dick Dorgan
Inker(s): Dick Dorgan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Pop's Night Out
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Happy
First Line: Well--well--Mrs. Van Snoot...
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Pages: 2
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It sure is hard paddlin' a boat this way

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gus Jud
Penciller(s): Gus Jud
Inker(s): Gus Jud
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jigger
Character(s): Jigger (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Danger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Happy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Here's breakfast, Jim.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Crawford Young
Penciller(s): Crawford Young
Inker(s): Crawford Young
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Jamms
Character(s): Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jamms (introduction)
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Reprint Notes: from The Jamms (Syndicated Features) 1936-07-13 - 1936-??-??
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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