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Issue: Fight Comics #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1940
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Issues: #1 of 86 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Fight Stories Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/01/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Malcolm Reiss (editor); Will Eisner [as William E. Eisner] (art director); S. M. Iger (feature editor)
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Island of Stolen Pearls

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Will Eisner; Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Shark Brodie
Character(s): Shark Brodie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Island of Stolen Pearls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): George Tuska [as George Aksut] (signed)
Inker(s): George Tuska [as George Aksut] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Shark Brodie
Character(s): Shark Brodie (intro); Banu (intro); Manaii (intro); Chief Koa (intro); VILLAIN: Nemo (intro; dies)
First Line: The toughest two-fisted adventurer in the South Seas...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

Aksut is Tuska backwards.
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True Life Story of Jack Dempsey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Alex Blum
Inker(s): Alex Blum; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, sports
Character(s): Jack Dempsey
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Schwab [as Fred Ricks]
Penciller(s): Fred Schwab [as Fred Ricks]
Inker(s): Fred Schwab [as Fred Ricks]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Slaphappy Sam
Character(s): Slaphappy Sam (a boxer; intro); his manager; Butch the Butcher (intro)
First Line: We'll moider de palooka!
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In Content Item: FlagSamson #13 published June 1955
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner?
Penciller(s): ? [as Lee]
Inker(s): ? [as Lee]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): The Spy Fighter
Character(s): Saber [Spy Fighter] (intro; origin); President Delano (intro); Secretary of State Cornell (intro); VILLAINS: Major Duncan (intro); Russmanians (intro)
First Line: The year is 1997... only three nations have...
Synopsis: Strip set in 1997! The origin of Spy Fighter.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner?
Penciller(s): Will Eisner?; Chuck Winter?; George Tuska?
Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich?; ? [shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Kayo Kirby
Character(s): Kayo Kirby [Red Kirby] (intro; origin); Chris Harden (intro); Mary Harden (intro); Patsy Fink (intro); Mauler Martin (intro); Joe Harkey (intro); VILLAINS: Carver and other gangsters (intro)
First Line: That's the last fight Harden will lose in my...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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1000 Fathoms Under the Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Steve Broder]
Penciller(s): Steve Broder (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Broder (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Kinks Mason
Character(s): Kinks Mason (intro); Proconians (intro); VILLAIN: Goors (intro)
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Chris Fletcher] (signed)
Penciller(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Chris Fletcher] (signed)
Inker(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Chris Fletcher] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Fletcher Hanks
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Big Red McLane
Character(s): Big Red McLane (intro); Mr. Farlow (intro); VILLAIN: Red River Lumber Co. (intro)
First Line: The Great Bend lumber company has a very valuable...
Synopsis: Big Red signs on to work for the Great Bend Lumber Co., where he is immediately put to work stopping employees of the Red River company from destroying the Great Bend operation.
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In Content Item: FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as King of the North Woods [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Hugh Bartlett]
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Oran of the Jungle
Character(s): Oran (intro; origin); Zack Temson (intro); Oran's father (intro); VILLAINS: Faro Farly (intro); Torpedo Ribula (intro)
First Line: The great Oran! Positively the greatest strong man...
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Terry O'Brien
Character(s): Terry O'Brien (intro); VILLAINS: Martin and his gang (intro)
First Line: A vicious gang is terrorizing the whole southern...
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Klaus Nordling [as Ed Norris]
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Strut Warren
Character(s): Cpl. Strut Warren (intro)
First Line: Stationed in war-torn China, a company of marines...
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Ted Torrence]
Penciller(s): George Tuska
Inker(s): George Tuska?; ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Chip Collins Sky Fighter
Character(s): Chip Collins (intro); The Skull Squadron [Jinx Jordan; others] (intro); Rodney Dawes (intro); Wendy Dawes (intro)
First Line: Steaming majestically over the calm Malay straits, the...
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Pages: 6

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