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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
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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):  
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
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The Island of Stolen Pearls

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Shark Brodie
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Pages: 1
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The Island of Stolen Pearls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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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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): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction, sports
Character(s): Jack Dempsey; John the Barber; Doc Kearns; Jimmy DeForest' Jack Johnson; Jesse Willard
First Line: I don't ike this job
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Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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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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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? [as Lee] (credited)
Inker(s): ? [as Lee] (credited)
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)
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Inker(s): ? [Eisner/Iger shop]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
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 club!
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Pages: 9
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1000 Fathoms Under the Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Steve Broder] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Kinks Mason
Character(s): Kinks Mason (intro); Proconians (intro); VILLAIN: Goors (intro)
First Line: Gentlemen, with this new helmet...
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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 Co. has a very valuable contract...
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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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Hugh Bartlett]
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
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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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Terry O'Brien Gang Snasher
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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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)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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...
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Pages: 6

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