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Issue: Fantastic Comics #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1940
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Issues: #5 of 23 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
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):  
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

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero, war
Character(s): Samson
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Pages: 1
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Eelo the Fish Man

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Samson; Eelo (villain, introduction, death); Marie de Jean; Prof. Brun; Tom de Graf
First Line: An island sinks into the depths of the ocean!
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Pages: 13
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The Heidites of Mercury

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Flip Falcon; the Mercurians (introduction)
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Pages: 6
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The Legend of the Haunted Well: Part 2

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Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]; Guest Star: Alice; Black Death (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 8
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The Inventions of Prof. Snead

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Yank Wilson; Professor Snead (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 6
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Battle on Venus

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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Pages: 2
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Island in Space [The Hoppers]

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Space Smith; Dianna; The Hoppers (villains, introduction)
First Line: "Space" and Dianna have left the Earth to try for a new speed record to the moon.
Synopsis: On their way to the Moon, Space Smith and Dianna encounter an island in space inhabited by the hostile Hoppers.
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In Content Item: FlagYou Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! #[nn] published June 2009
as The Hoppers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Captain Kidd
First Line: Swallowed by a mysterious jungle tree...
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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Professor Fiend
First Line: Notice! In case you're interested...
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Miracle Men

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Wolf-Eye (villain); Miracle Men (introduction)
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In Content Item: FlagI Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! #[nn] published June 2007
as Wolf Eye's Vacuum Tubes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Vanishing Vessels

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sub Saunders; King Kelpa (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 7

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