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Issue: Airboy Comics #1 [36] Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1947
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Issues: #1 [36] of 89 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHillman
Brand: A Hillman PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Hillman Periodicals Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/12/1946
Volume: 4
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1947 by Hillman Periodicals, Inc.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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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 series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
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Pages: 1
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The Elephants' Graveyard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]; Professor Reed; Gargan (4 tusked elephant, death); "Ivory" Anderson (villain, death); Pinky (villain)
First Line: What do you dream about?
Synopsis: Ivory Anderson tells his men of an elephant named "Gargan" that had four ivory tusks, probably long dead by now. But what interests him most is that Airboy is flying to the elephant graveyard where Gargan will most likely be found and he wants those tusks. Ivory reaches his destination, but Gargan is still living and remembers the time gangster Anderson abused him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Script and inker credits by Craig Delich, all courtesy of the Who's Who.

Some of the story told in flashback.
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Von Emmelman's Pearls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): The Heap [Baron von Emmelmann]; Rickie Wood; Tom (soldier friend of Rickie, death); Tom's friend (death?); Forefinger (villain, death?); Mutton (villain, death?)
Synopsis: After winning 1st Prize at the National Model Plane Show with his entry: an exact copy of Airboy's plane, Birdie, he meets with a soldier friend of his and tells him about the Heap. Suddenly, a group of thugs interrupt and demand a package containing the Emmelman Pearls, the soldier is carrying for a friend of his. When Tom doesn't come across with it, they kill Tom and knock out Rickie. Rickie then uses his model of Birdie to locate the thugs, and when Rickie is captured and buried alive, Rickie uses Birdie to circle the area. The Heap sees it, saves the boy but takes the pearls.
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In Issue: FlagRoy Thomas Presents The Heap #1 published November 2012
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Pages: 10
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The Gloves of the Executioner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Iron Lady
Character(s): Iron Lady [Doris Parker](introduction, origin); Walter P. Parker (Doris' father, death); Zurich Burn (watchmaker); Mr. Lusen
Synopsis: A famed but abused watch maker invents an ugly but powerful pair of gloves that can give anyone tremendous, deadly strength in their hands......strength now used by the daughter of a murdered tobacco king to exact justice!
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In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #82 published June 2010
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Next appearance in Clue Comics Volume 2 #1.
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Detective on Horseback

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Baron Buckskin
Character(s): Baron Buckskin
First Line: Makes me feel like a kid again...
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Pages: 1
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Double for a Star

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Skinny McGinty
Character(s): Skinny McGinty
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Last Skinny McGinty story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Henry the 8th
First Line: It looks like rain, Henry, better 'phone me...
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Pages: 0.75
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Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
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The Tiger Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): The Iron Ace
Character(s): The Iron Ace [Captain Robert Britain]; unnamed night club watchman (cameo, death); Tanga (night club performer); Ram Aziz; The Tiger Cult (villains, some die)
First Line: The lights are low in a New York spot...
Synopsis: Britain discovers that a murdered night club watchman has traces of iron rust in his blood, and wonders if this murder is in any way related to the disappearance of the night club's star performer who had escaped from a Tiger Cult in Indo-China.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Last Iron Ace story.

Script credit and art revisions by Craig Delich.
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A Tale of Darkness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1

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