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Issue: Top Notch Comics #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
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Issues: #5 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/15/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Abner Sundell ?
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe [as E. M. Ashe Jr.] (signed)
Inker(s): Edd Ashe [as E. M. Ashe Jr.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): The Wizard; Keith Kornell
Character(s): The Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Keith Kornell
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Mosconian Menace: Part 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Harr ?
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe
Inker(s): Edd Ashe
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Wizard, The Man with the Super-Brain
Character(s): The Wizard [Blane Whitney]; The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Lee Sampson; Keith Kornell; J. Edgar Hoover; Mosconians (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Continued from the Midshipman story in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #4. Continued in The West Pointer story in this issue.
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The Knighting of Galahad

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Lin Streeter (signed)
Inker(s): Lin Streeter (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Galahad
Character(s): Sir Galahad (Intro); King Arthur (Intro); Sir Kay (Intro); Lynette (Intro); Round Table Knights (Intro); Sir Gilbert (Villain; Intro; Death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Origin of Shanghai Sheridan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Blair (signed)
Penciller(s): Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Inker(s): Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Shanghai Sheridan
Character(s): Jack "Shanghai" Sheridan (introduction, origin); Chan Sing-Tan (introduction); Madame and General Kang Shy-Check (introduction for both); Ah Mee (introduction); Wu-Fang (villain, introduction); Japanese spies (villains)
Synopsis: When Jack Sheridan’s father was killed by the invaders in 1931, young Jack was adopted by his father’s wise and wealthy old friend, Chan Sing-Tan. Jack vowed to avenge his father’s death and swore never to rest until he had driven the invaders from the land of the peaceful Chinese, and to this end he trains himself to become a marvel in the sciences, the Hindu art of escape, boxing and jiu-jitsu, and ancient Chinese magic and illusion.
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Pages: 6
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Dances of the Wild West

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten?
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 2
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Gas-Men of Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): William Wills
Inker(s): William Wills
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Streak Chandler
Character(s): The Gas-Men (Intro); Rega (Intro); Kalox (Villain; Intro)
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Pages: 6
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The Court-Martial of Wings Johnson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Blair
Penciller(s): Ed Smalle [as Ed Smalle Jr.] (signed)
Inker(s): Ed Smalle [as Ed Smalle Jr.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wings Johnson
Character(s): Von Schiller (Villain; Death); Nazis (Villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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On the Island of the Devil Devil Doctor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Mort Meskin
Inker(s): Mort Meskin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Storm
Character(s): Burton (Villain; Intro); a tribe of headhunters (Villain; Intro)
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Pages: 6
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The Kidnapping of Sally Iver

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten
Penciller(s): Gerry Thorp (signed)
Inker(s): Gerry Thorp (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Bob Phantom
Character(s): Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]; Sally Iver (introduction); Mortimer Iver (introduction); Ah-Ku and her gang (villains)
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Pages: 6
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The Mosconian Menace: Part 5

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Harr ?
Penciller(s): Elmer Wexler
Inker(s): Elmer Wexler
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The West Pointer
Character(s): Keith Kornell; The Wizard (Guest Appearance); The Mosconians (Villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: continued from The Wizard story in this issue. Continued in the Shield story in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #5.
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Conquest of the Mocha Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Shorten?
Penciller(s): C. A. Winter
Inker(s): C. A. Winter
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Kardak
Character(s): The Mocha Men and their Magator (Villain)
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Pages: 6

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