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Issue: Airboy Comics #2 [37] Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1947
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Issues: #2 [37] 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: 01/17/1947
Volume: 4
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
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Pages: 1
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The Theft of Birdie

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): the Capistrano Monks; Brother Martier (introduction); Misery (villain); Black Tamerlane (villain); Hirote [Hirota] (villain); Black Ace (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: This is the 3rd appearance of the Capistrano monks.
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The Smugglers' Octopus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, horror, superhero
Character(s): The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Rickie Wood; Mrs. Wood; Winnie (friend of Rickie); Roger Garmen; Mr. Borden; Mr. Clark; Cookie (villain, ship's cook); Ethyl (villain, an octopus, death); Manuel (villain, jewel thief, death)
Synopsis: A jewel thief is using an octopus named Ethyl to hide gems on that he has been stealing. However, when Rickie and his friend Winnie come aboard the boat Manuel works on, Manuel gets the idea of having Ethyl kill al of them in their sleep.....until the Heap intervenes.
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In Issue: FlagRoy Thomas Presents The Heap #1 published November 2012
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Pages: 11
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1st story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Model Builders with Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Inks previously credited to Arthur F. Peddy.
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The Case of the Lonesome Corpse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): mystery
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Pages: 8
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The Whisp and Airboy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]; the Whisp (villain)
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Pages: 2
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Safari Will Not Rest in Peace

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Feature(s): Rackman
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: 1st Rackman app. in Airboy; last app. in Clue Comics V. 1 #12

Signature is consistent with the one by Fred Guardineer found in Clue Comics V. 1 #12. Signature was previously attributed to Frank Giacoia.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Baron Buckskin
First Line: Morning, stranger!
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Pages: 1

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