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Issue: Doc Savage Comics #1 (1)
Publication Date: April 1940
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Issues: #1 (1) of 20 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagStreet and Smith
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher:
On Sale Date: 04/17/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William DeGrouchy
Disclose Notes: Per comments from Tony Tollin, this issue was copyrighted April, 1940. Cover date, if it had one, would probably be June.

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 451760.
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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
Penciller(s): Walter Baumhofer (painted)
Inker(s): Walter Baumhofer (painted)
Colorist(s): Walter Baumhofer (painted)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Doc Savage
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art is taken from the July, 1933 issue of Doc Savage Magazine, credited at Heritage Auctions to have been painted by Walter Baumhofer: https://comics.ha.com/itm/pulps/hero/doc-savage-july-33-street-and-smith-1933-condition-fn-vf/a/7097-91419.s
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The Land of Terror (Part 1)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer ?
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Doc Savage
Character(s): Doc Savage; Monk; Ham; Kar [Oliver Bittman] (villain)
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: adapted from THE LAND OF TERROR by Lester Dent (aka Kenneth Robeson); 2nd part of adaptation- continued from Shadow Comics #3.
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Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): Treasure Island
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Double-Barreled Magic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walter Gibson ?
Penciller(s): Vernon Greene ?
Inker(s): Vernon Greene ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Norgil the Magician
Character(s): Norgil the Magician; Terry Dorcumb (Federal agent); Landseer; Rochet Mob (villain, introduction for all, all die); Monte Kyron (villain, forger, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Norgil works with a Federal agent to rescue a man named Landseer from a mob using a circus as a front.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Last appearance was in Shadow Comics Volume 1 #8.
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The Gas Neutralizer Plans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Cap Fury
Character(s): Cap Fury; John Barclee (first appearance)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: last app. in SHADOW COMICS V. 1 #2
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Death On the Construction Job

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Danny Garrett
Character(s): Danny Garrett (first appearance)
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Pages: 4
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Scarlet Give-Away

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Storm
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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First Days At West Point

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Garrison
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mark Mallory
Character(s): Mark Mallory (first appearance)
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Pages: 7
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L' Liberator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Death
Character(s): Captain Death [Steve Kenny] (first appearance)
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Pages: 4
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Nuggets of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Farr
Inker(s): Jack Farr
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Sheriff Pete Rice
Character(s): Sheriff Pete Rice (first appearance)
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Pages: 5
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Murder At the De Gron Estate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Whisperer
Character(s): The Whisperer [Comm. James "Wildcat" Gordon] (first appearance)
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Pages: 7
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A Race For a Life

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Billy the Kid
Character(s): Billy the Kid [William Bonney] (first appearance)
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Pages: 4

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