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Issue: Fantastic Comics #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1940
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Issues: #4 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: FPView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/08/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
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 441668.
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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
Format Notes:  
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The Mighty Samson Demolishes the Closing Torture Walls

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Samson
Character(s): Samson
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Giant Robots of Kilgor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner ?
Penciller(s): Alex Blum
Inker(s): Alex Blum
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Samson
Character(s): Samson; Kilgor (villain, introduction, death); Prof. Brun; Rigo
First Line: The threat of doom by giant robots hovers over the world.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
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Invasion of the Three-Armed Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Don Rico
Inker(s): Don Rico
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Flip Falcon
Character(s): Flip Falcon; Three-Armed Men (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Flick Falcon's name changed to Flip.
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The Legend of the Haunted Well

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Grieg Chapian
Inker(s): Grieg Chapian
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Golden Knight
Character(s): Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]; Alice (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Silent Explosive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Yank Wilson
Character(s): Yank Wilson; Terro (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Lost In Time

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Paul (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Headless Men of the Gold Comet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Penciller(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Inker(s): Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Fletcher Hanks
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Smith
Character(s): Space Smith; Dianna; The Thinker (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Space Smith and Dianna are attacked by the Thinker's headless soldiers while they investigate the comet of gold.
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In Content Item: FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as The Thinker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The first line of text reads: "Space" has just received a radio call from a lunar station, inviting him and Dianna to visit the moon for a close-up of a new comet."
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Toni Blum ?
Penciller(s): Bill Bossert
Inker(s): Bill Bossert
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Kidd
Character(s): Captain Kidd
First Line: Hearing rumors of a strange cult of hideous beast-men...
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Schwab
Penciller(s): Fred Schwab
Inker(s): Fred Schwab
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Fred Schwab
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Professor Fiend
Character(s): Professor Fiend
First Line: Deep down in a gloomy subterranean subcellar...
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Pages: 4
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The Mad Giant Experimenter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fletcher Hanks (signed)
Penciller(s): Fletcher Hanks (signed)
Inker(s): Fletcher Hanks (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Fletcher Hanks
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Stardust
Character(s): Stardust; The Mad Giant (introduction); Kamet (introduction)
Synopsis: Stardust prevents the Mad Giant from destroying Chicago with a volcano that appears in Lake Michigan.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #56 published December 2005
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as The Mad Giant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The first line of text reads: "Stardust, the scientific marvel whose vast interplanetary knowledge has given him greater powers than anybody else, has learned through his scopes that a mad giant experimenter, who dwells in the Gobi desert, is planning to destroy the world."
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The Problem of Prince Pizga

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Sub Saunders
Character(s): Sub Saunders; Thetis (introduction); Prince Pizga (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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