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Issue: Exciting Comics #2 (2) Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/21/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): 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 448583.
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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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
L. North
L. North
?
Subject Matter
Ted Crane
Ted Crane
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Ted Crane and the Leopard Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
George Mandel [as Geo Mandel] (signed)
George Mandel [as Geo Mandel] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
Ted Crane
Ted Crane (first appearance); Prof. Hawkins (first appearance); Betty Hawkins (first appearance); The Leopard Men (first appearance, villains); Bullard (first appearance, villain)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
10
Marooned on Mercury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Max Plaisted
Max Plaisted
?
?
Subject Matter
The Space Rovers
Ted Hunt (first appearance); Jane Martin (first appearance); Dr. Matthew Martin (first appearance); Mercurian cave-people (first appearance); Flaedo (first appearance, villain, death); Zado (first appearance, villain); King of Thian (first appearance, villain); Otto (first appearance, villain); another spy (first appearance, villain)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
10
The Second Theseus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Mandel
George Mandel
George Mandel
George Mandel
?
Subject Matter
Son of the Gods
Dr. John Thesson [the modern Theseus] (first appearance, origin); Theseus (first appearance); Ariadne (first appearance); Aegeus (first appearance); Minos (first appearance, flashback); Prof. Craig (first appearance); Perphetes (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Sinis (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Minotaur (first appearance, villain, death, flashback); Procostous [Procrustes] (first appearance, villain); Cercion (first appearance, villain, death)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
The Knowles Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Ray Lowry
Ray Lowry
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Dan Williams, Private Investigator
Dan Williams; Patricia Knowles (first appearance); Edward Knowles (first appearance, villain, death)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
On the Western Front

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Leonard Sansone
Leonard Sansone
?
?
Subject Matter
Sergeant Bill King
Sergeant Bill King; Nazis (villains)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
The Grey Rider

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jackson Cole
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Mystery of the Lost Mine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
The Masked Rider
The Masked Rider (first appearance; only appearance); The Specter [Jim Sanford] (first appearance; villain)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
Theft of the Tank Plans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Kin Platt ?
Kin Platt ?
?
?
Subject Matter
The Sphinx
The Sphinx [Ellsworth Forrester] (first appearance); Marjorie Grover (first appearance); Thomsen (first appearance; villain); Saunders (first appearance; villain); other spies (first appearance; villains)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
Masked Bandit

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Donald Bayne Hobart
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Mask Returns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Raymond Thayer [as Thayer] (signed)
Raymond Thayer [as Thayer] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
The Mask
The Mask [Tony Colby]; Olly Snate (villain; death); Otto Fox (first appearance; villain; death)
Reprinting
FlagMen of Mystery Comics #43 published December 2003
as The Mask Returns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6

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