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Issue: Jumbo Comics #11

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Publication Date: December 1939

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Issues: #11 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fiction House

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 10/13/1939

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 431356.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: black and white (#1-8); color (#9 onwards)

Dimensions: tabloid:10.5 x 14 1/2 (#1-8); 8.5 x 10.5 inches (#9); standard Golden Age U.S. (#10 onwards)

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

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Content Items (12 total)

The War of the Emerald Gas

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Appears to be a science fiction cover and has nothing to do with the ZX-5 story inside.

Land of Giant Men

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Mr. Barker; Inez Barker; Chim

First Line: From the jungle's darkness into the clearing emerges...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Title from last issue blurb.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Peter Pupp

Character(s): Peter Pupp; Tinymite; Fooy on Yu;

First Line: Synopsis While Peter and Tinymite ran to tell...

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Pages: 3

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Feature(s): The Hawk

Character(s): The Hawk; Jeremy; Ogly; Caprini

First Line: - - It is morning, as the early mists rise...

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Pages: 9

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Bobby

Character(s): Bobby

First Line: My dad knows a man who says he...

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: 1/2 page of "Prize Winners in August-September 1939 Jumbo Comics Gag Contest" appear above "Bobby."

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Dennis Colbrook]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Spencer Steel

Character(s): Spencer Steel; Nora Steel; "Pixie" Panto; Inga; Phillip Danbury; Nancy Danbury; Count Georgi Puskri; Alonzo Snead

First Line: After his suprise elopement, and short honeymoon, Spencer...

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Pages: 8

Notes: Note: "Colebrook" is spelled without the "E". Different style from #10. But it's still a shop job, and you can see some panels done by Tuska...overall feel...Klaus Nordling.

City of Treachery

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Lin Davies

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Ken Hammond

Character(s): Ken Hammond; Dick Walsh - the Leopard Man; Nikki-Tikki; Mongga; Kuri

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural

Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Melani; Moki; Dr. Hayward; Laura

First Line: Your daughter a captive in Moki's castle?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Hints of George Brenner in the art.

The War of the Green Gas

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action

Character(s): ZX-5; King Genghis; Major Hastings; General Kutani;

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Same artwork as in #10 - a mixture: including Bob Powell and perhaps Witmer Williams, Frank Frollo, or Vern Henkel. Caniff swipes.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Fred Sande]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): Wilton of the West

Character(s): Wilton; Wiley; Snorty

First Line: Out of the western hills comes Wilton to...

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Pages: 9

The Death Drum

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as George Thatcher]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Inspector Dayton

Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Paul Goodshaw; Wini Damien; Ella Fitzhugh; Gene

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Pages: 6

Notes: Powell and/or Henkel - I can't tell, but I'm more inclined to think is might not be Powell. Other possibilities: Frollo and/or Zolnerowich.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Jack Cortez]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Feature(s): The Count of Monte Cristo

Character(s): Vampa; Albert de Morcerf; Jocopo; Count of Monte Cristo

First Line: Early in the year 1838, an elegant carriage...

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Pages: 4