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Issue: Weird Comics #1 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: 02/06/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 2.
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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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Brent's Gun Blazed Away And Stopped The Fiend

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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George Tuska
George Tuska
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?
Subject Matter
adventure
Dr. Mortal
Gary Brent; Dr. Mortal
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FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
 
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The Origin of Thor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Pierce Rice
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Subject Matter
adventure, fantasy
Thor
Thor; Grant Farrel [Thor]; Glenda
Thor, the son of Odin, chooses a mortal, Grant Farrel, and imbues him with the God of Thunder's powers and abilities. Thereafter, Grant is known as Thor when he changes shape and assumes the form and powers of the Thunder God.
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FlagÉtranges Aventures #1 [unnamed variant] published December 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Coming of the Sorceress

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Don Rico
Don Rico
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?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Sorceress of Zoom
Sorceress of Zoom; Tom; Janice; The Stranger
Zoom, a magical city that appears and disappears at the will of the powerful sorceress...
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Boy! Special delivery to Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Fred Schwab
Fred Schwab
Fred Schwab
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Fred Schwab
Subject Matter
humorous
Solar Plexis
Solar Plexis
Solar is tasked with delivering a message to Mars.
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Miscellaneous
2
The Pirates and the Meteor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Don Rico
Don Rico
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?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Blast Bennett
Blast Bennett; Red
In their fast spaceship, Blast Bennett and his companion, Red, speed through the spaceways in search of adventure.
Blast and Red explore a meteor that crosses their path.
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The Man Who Made Monsters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bert Whitman
Bert Whitman
Bert Whitman
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?
Subject Matter
adventure
Dr. Mortal
Dr. Mortal; Marlene Mortal; Gary Brent
Creator of inhuman monstrosities, Dr. Mortal has kept his deadly secret from the world until
Dr. Mortal is about to operate on his niece, Marlene, but is stopped in the nick of time by Gary Brent.
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8
The Voodoo Man Cometh

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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? [as Alan Spectre]
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?
Subject Matter
adventure
Voodoo Man
The Voodoo Man; Bob Warren; Petro; Lana
To Haiti, island of mystic voodooism, where black magic reigns and dead men walk as zombies...
Bob frees Petro and Lana from the clutches of the Voodoo Man.
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The Invisible Planet

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
A. B. Crews
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typeset
Subject Matter
science fiction
Bill Swift; Victor; Nadine
When a fella discovers something, he'd at least like to know what he's discovered.
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Introducing the Bird Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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? [as Arnold Inagos]
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?
Subject Matter
adventure
Bird Man
The Bird Man; The Stone Man
Over the vast wilderness of the great western canyons, swoops the Birdman - winged hunter of the plains.
Bird Man helps a father find his missing daughter in Lone Canyon.
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Miscellaneous
8
The protagonist of the story is referred to as Bird Man and Birdman.
Master of the Serpent-Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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? [as Phillips Judge]
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?
Subject Matter
adventure
Typhon
Typhon; Master of the Serpent-Men
At a private dock, a new super-submarine is ready to be launched
Exploring the ocean depths, Typhon fights off a giant electric eel and a many-headed sea monster.
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