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Issue: Airboy Comics #4 [39] Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1947
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Issues: #4 [39] 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: 03/21/1947
Volume: 4
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed Cronin
Disclose Notes: Data for this issue supplied by Len Wolinsky, via the GCD Error List (5 February 2007).

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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images2
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?
Inker(s): Joe Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Jack Kirby #[3] published January 1998
as Airboy Comics v4 #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sparkle Shore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Fred Kida
Inker(s): Fred Kida
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]; Hank Bates; Rocky Wells; Albert (villain, death); Rita (villain)
Synopsis: Airboy visits an old friend on the diamond coast of Africa, a place where diamonds are so plentiful that they can be scooped up off the beach.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #83 published October 2010
as Sparkle Shore [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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The Music of Paul Lustig

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Arthur F. Peddy [as Peddy] (signed)
Inker(s): Bernard Sachs [as Sachs] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, horror
Feature(s): The Heap
Character(s): The Heap [Baron Eric von Emmelman]; Rickie Wood; Winnie (Rickie's friend); Paul Lustig (villain, singer, death)
Synopsis: Young Paul Lustig has a medodious/hypnotic voice, unlike any other, and he sets out to attain fame.....and especially fortune......any way he can! As it turns out, and after obtaining the wealth he so desired, Paul Lustig talks his way into owning half the hometown of Rickie Wood. Winnie applies for the job as his secretary and when Paul sings the music from the music to a German opera in her hands, the music draws the Heap out of hiding, and the beast kills him!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagRoy Thomas Presents The Heap #1 published November 2012
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Salem Witches

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino
Inker(s): Bernard Sachs
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Rackman
Character(s): Rackman [Craig Mansfield]; Ellis White (Vice President of the Mansfield Industrial Empire); Judy (worker at Mansfield Industrial); Mr. Cartwright (of International Copper); John Mansfield (President of Mansfield Industrial Empire); Mrs. Mansfield; Carrie Hamilton (villain, witchcraft practitioner, death); Elizabeth Hamilton (villain, witchcraft practitioner, death)
Synopsis: Mr. White returns from vacation to meet with the head of International Copper, who desires to borrow $100,000 from the firm. The weird thing is that Mr. White is acting like a mere child and OKs the loan without the approval of Mr. Mansfield. Craig Mansfield, suspecting something is wrong with White, plays along to gather information while his father leaves the family island to investigate Craig's seemingly odd behavior and Hamilton Manor where White vacationed.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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This is my model workbench...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Arthur F. Peddy
Inker(s): Arthur F. Peddy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Model Builders With Airboy
Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Bad Man

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Claude Dunnagan
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Dead Man Who Wasn't

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernard Sachs [as B. Sachs] (signed)
Inker(s): Bernard Sachs [as B. Sachs] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Johnny Halfbuck
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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