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Issue: Fantastic Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1939
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Issues: #1 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: FPView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/05/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose 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 432164.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson
First Line: Samson crashed through and single handed wiped out the enemy...
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Pages: 1
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The Coming of Samson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson; Thorga (villain, introduction); Thorganians
First Line: Out of the mist of history comes the mighty Samson...
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In Content Item: FlagSamson #1 published January 1940
as The Coming of Samson [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Writer id by Bob Hughes based on stylistic analysis. Earlier appearance and origin revealed in Samson #1.
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In the Land of Nod

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Buzzy
Character(s): Buzzy (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Only appearance of Fox's "Buzzy" feature. Not to be confused with later Buzzy features from other publishers.
Rolland Livingstone is a real person, not a pen name for Jerry Iger. He is listed in Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
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The Arrival of Stardust

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Stardust (introduction)
First Line: While a secret army of spies, and murderous terrorists conpsire to undermine business, and the government, a distant radio call is picked up in America - a message transmitted from somewhere out in space!
Synopsis: Stardust captures a conglomerate of criminals and suspends them in mid-air while forcing them to gaze on the skeletons of everyone they killed.
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In Content Item: FlagI Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! #[nn] published June 2007
as Presidential Assassination [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Origin of the Golden Knight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, historical
Character(s): The Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick] (introduction, origin); King Richard the Lion-Hearted (introduction); Saracens (villains); a witch
First Line: During the Crusades, there lived a great and noble knight, Sir Richard, the Golden Knight of Warwick.
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Pages: 8
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Captured By Skomah

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Space Smith (introduction); Dianna (introduction); Skomah (villain, introduction)
First Line: The Brain wants all Earth people destroyed!
Synopsis: Space Smith and Dianna are captured by the mad Martian scientist Skomah and his Imp Men, but make good their escape.
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In Content Item: FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as Captured by Skomah [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Planet of Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William T. Libby (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Art identification by Saltarella.
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The U. S. A. Is Invaded!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Yank Wilson (introduction); Joe (introduction); the President (introduction); The Eskimongolians (villains, introduction); Raxola (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Captain Kidd (introduction, a pilot); Von Haupt (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: 200 miles from his camp...
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Professor Fiend (introduction)
First Line: Deep down in a gloomy, ancient, subterranean cellar...
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Pages: 4
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Into the Fourth Dimension

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Flick Falcon (introduction); Adele (introduction); Three-Armed Men (villains, introduction, Martians)
First Line: The ball is coming back, but it has been turned inside out.
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Pages: 6
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At the Bottom of the Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sub Saunders (introduction); Lt. Dirk (introduction); Queen Lantida (introduction); Atlanteans (introduction); Naulus (villain, introduction); the frog-men (villains, introduction)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Writer id by Bob Hughes

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