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Issue: Top Notch Comics #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1940
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/01/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Abner Sundell ?
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 444866.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Edd Ashe
Edd Ashe
?
?
Subject Matter
aviation, superhero
Wizard
Wizard [Blane Whitney]; German pilots
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Miscellaneous
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The Sybernians Attack Alaska

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Will Harr (signed)
Edd Ashe [as Ed Ashe, Jr.] (signed)
Edd Ashe [as Ed Ashe, Jr.] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Wizard
Wizard [Blane Whitney]; The Sybernians (Villains; Introduction)
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Miscellaneous
10
Visit to 2000 A.D.

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Otto Binder ?
Jack Binder (signed)
Jack Binder (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Scott Rand
Scott Rand; Thor (viking); Princess Elda; Dr. Meade; Martians (Villains; Introduction)
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Miscellaneous
5
Don Carlos Has Risen from the Grave--Or Has He?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Charles Biro
Charles Biro
?
?
Subject Matter
crime
Swift of the Secret Service
Rex Swift; Tony (Villain; Introduction); Joe (Villain; Introduction); other counterfeiters (Villain; Introduction); Don Carlos (Introduction; Death before story opens)
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Miscellaneous
6
The faces and the thin shading inklines, and hands, chins and noses look very much like Biro on Steel Sterling in Zip Comics #1.
In the Foreign Legion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Shorten
Mort Meskin
Mort Meskin
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Dick Storm
Dick Storm (Introduction); Captain Dumont (Introduction); Arabs (Villains); Gollas (Villain; Introduction); Zurko (Villain; Introduction)
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Miscellaneous
6
Drum Language

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Barton; Lee; Ivers
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Miscellaneous
2
The Return of Von Schiller

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joe Blair
Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
aviation, war
Air Patrol (Wings Johnson)
Ben Johnson (pilot); Captain Von Schiller (Villain); Nazis (Villain)
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Miscellaneous
8
The Rifle Spies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Shorten ?
Henry Kiefer
Henry Kiefer
?
?
Subject Matter
West Pointer
Keith Kornell; Docker (Villain; Introduction); other spies (Villains; Introduction)
A stranger meets Keith Kornell seemingly by accident, but he is offering him money for having a look at one of the new style Army rifles.
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Miscellaneous
6
Originally credited to Ed Wexler, but it is not near his signed art on West Pointer in #6. The faces, figures and inking are totally different. This is unmistakably the work of Kiefer, with his very peculiar eyes that never seem to focus on anything, and faces with no variation. Compare with his credited story in Planet Comics #1, and in Fantastic Comics #3, both from the same period.
Shooting on Center Street

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Lin Streeter [as L. Streeter] (signed)
Lin Streeter [as L. Streeter] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
crime
Stacey Knight, M.D.
Stacey Knight (Introduction); Derby Morgan (Villain; Introduction); Red Mullin (Villain; Introduction); dope smugglers (Villains; Introduction)
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Miscellaneous
6
The Phony Spiritualists

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Shorten ?
Mort Meskin
Mort Meskin
?
?
Subject Matter
occult
Mystic [Kardak]
Joe (villain; introduction); his gang (Villains; Introduction)
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Miscellaneous
6
Originally credited to C. A. Winter, but this has the unmistakeable faces of Meskin, squinting eyes and long jaws, and tall figures with small heads.
California's Kidnap-Murder Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jack Cole (signed)
Jack Cole (signed)
Jack Cole (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
crime
Manhunters
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Miscellaneous
6
true-crime story

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