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Issue: Exciting Comics #1 (1) Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1940
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Issues: #1 (1) of 69 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/15/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 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, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 444832.
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): L. North (swipe)
Inker(s): L. North
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Major Mars
Character(s): Major Mars; Grag (robot)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: cover is swiped from panel 4, page 12 of "Major Mars" story.
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The Mask Strikes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Norman Daniels (plot)
Penciller(s): Raymond Thayer (signed)
Inker(s): Raymond Thayer (signed)
Colorist(s): Raymond Thayer ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Mask
Character(s): The Mask [Tony Colby] (first appearance, origin); Silk Davis (first appearance); Carol Smith (first appearance); Olly Snate (first appearance, villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Same story as the first Black Bat prose tale in Black Book Detective vol 9#2 (July 1939).
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The Beast Plague from Jupiter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Plaisted
Inker(s): Max Plaisted
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Major Mars
Character(s): Major Mars (introduction); Grag (introduction, a robot); Joan Jilson (introduction); The Space Emperor [Kells] (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Only appearance. Story was adapted from the story "Captain Future and the Space Emperor", written by Edmond Hamilton, which appeared in the first issue of Captain Future, dated Winter 1940. The pulp appeared about two months prior to the comic. Both pulp and comic were published by the same company.
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In No-Man's-Land

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Sergeant Bill King
Character(s): Sergeant Bill King (introduction); the Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Black Inferno

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jim Hatfield, Texas Ranger
Character(s): Jim Hatfield (first appearance, a Texas Ranger); Capt. McDowell (first appearance); Padre Borasho (first appearance, villain, death); Sen. Crocker (first appearance, villain); Slade (first appearance, villain)
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Pages: 8
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Payoff in Lead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Gunner Thompson
Character(s): Gunner Thompson (first appearance, only appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Deep Sea Drama on Parade

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Browne (signed)
Inker(s): Ken Browne (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hy Hardy, Ace Newsreel Cameraman
Character(s): Hy Hardy (first appearance, only appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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A Real Waddy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sam Brant (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Forbes Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Lowry (signed)
Inker(s): Ray Lowry (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Dan Williams, Private Investigator
Character(s): Dan Williams (first appearance); Caroline Forbes (first appearance); John Blodgett (first appearance, villain)
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Pages: 7
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I'm gone on a trip around the world...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Klaus Nordling
Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling [as Nord] (signed)
Inker(s): Klaus Nordling [as Nord] (signed)
Colorist(s): Klaus Nordling
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Make-Believe Mickey
Character(s): Make-Believe Mickey (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2.5

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