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Issue: Fantastic Comics #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1940
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: FPView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/09/1940
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 and volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 444575.
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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
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Samson Crumbles the Mighty War Machine

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Lou Fine
Lou Fine
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero, war
Samson
Samson
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Miscellaneous
1
Eelo the Fish Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Alex Blum
Alex Blum
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Samson
Samson; Eelo (villain, introduction, death); Marie de Jean; Prof. Brun; Tom de Graf
An island sinks into the depths of the ocean!
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Miscellaneous
13
The Heidites of Mercury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Don Rico
Don Rico
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Flip Falcon
Flip Falcon; the Mercurians (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
6
The Legend of the Haunted Well: Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Grieg Chapman
Grieg Chapman
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Golden Knight
Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]; Guest Star: Alice; Black Death (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
8
The Inventions of Prof. Snead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Yank Wilson
Yank Wilson; Professor Snead (villain, introduction, death)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Battle on Venus

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
R. M. Brunnei (signed)
typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
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Miscellaneous
2
Island in Space [The Hoppers]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
?
Fletcher Hanks
Subject Matter
science fiction
Space Smith
Space Smith; Dianna; The Hoppers (villains, introduction)
On their way to the Moon, Space Smith and Dianna encounter an island in space inhabited by the hostile Hoppers.
Reprinting
FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as The Hoppers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
First line of text reads: "Space" and Dianna have left the Earth to try for a new speed record to the moon."
Swallowed by a mysterious jungle tree...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Toni Blum ?
Bill Bossert
Bill Bossert
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Kidd
Captain Kidd
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fred Schwab
Fred Schwab
Fred Schwab
?
Fred Schwab
Subject Matter
adventure
Professor Fiend
Professor Fiend
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Miscellaneous
4
Miracle Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fletcher Hanks
Fletcher Hanks
Fletcher Hanks
?
Fletcher Hanks
Subject Matter
fantasy
Stardust
Stardust; Wolf-Eye (villain); Miracle Men (introduction)
Reprinting
FlagI Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! #[nn] published June 2007
as Wolf Eye's Vacuum Tubes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Vanishing Vessels

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Henry Kiefer
Henry Kiefer
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Sub Saunders
Sub Saunders; King Kelpa (villain, introduction, death)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7

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