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Issue: Thrilling Comics #1 (1) Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1940
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Issues: #1 (1) of 80 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/01/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines] (president)
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/).

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 441198.
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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
Penciller(s): Alexander Kostuk
Inker(s): Alexander Kostuk
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Dr. Strange (Doc Strange)
Character(s): Dr. Strange [Professor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thomson
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Alter Ego #111 (July 2012) features three different preliminary covers to this issue by Alexander Kostuk on Page 40.
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The Amazing Adventures of "Dr. Strange"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Dick Hughes] (credited)
Penciller(s): Alexander Kostuk [as Alexander Koster] (signed)
Inker(s): Alexander Kostuk [as Alexander Koster] (signed)
Colorist(s): Richard Hughes
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Dr. Strange
Character(s): Dr. Strange [Professor Thomas Hugo Strange]; (introduction, origin, becomes Doc Strange by issue #10); Virginia Thompson (introduction); Prof. Thompson (introduction); The Faceless Phantom [Commissioner Baxter] (villain, introduction); Togo (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 37
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray McGill
Penciller(s): Ray McGill
Inker(s): Ray McGill
Colorist(s): Ray McGill
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The McCoys
Character(s): Mr. McCoy (introduction); Mrs. McCoy (introduction); Mickey (introduction); Jane McCoy (introduction)
First Line: Wwweeeee it's snowing out!
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Pages: 5
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A Message from the Editor!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ned Pines ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Request for fan mail, how to enter "CASH PRIZE CONTEST".
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: List of issue features: "Captain Future" is erroneously mentioned (should be "Dr. Strange")
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Don Tyler's Triumph

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Wallace (signed)
Colorist(s): Robert Wallace
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Don Tyler (introduction)
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Pages: 2
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Subject Matter
Character(s): Nickie Norton (Secret Service agent) (introduction); Inspector McGinnis (introduction); John Fulton (introduction); Sandra Fulton (introduction); Cortez (villain, introduction, death)
First Line: Jim Fulton, inventor of the Fulton submarine, is menaced by Cortez, a notorious spy.
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Pages: 16
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Lt. George W. Baylor

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Texas Rangers
Character(s): George W. Baylor
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Pages: 3

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