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Issue: A Feature Presentation #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1950
 
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Issues: #5 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Hero Books Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
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Format Notes:  
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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The Black Tarantula

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Black Tarantula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Count Zoroaster Rorret [The Black Tarantula]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVariety Comics #[nn] published January 1950
as The Black Tarantula [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStartling Terror Tales #11 [Blue Cover] published July 1952
as The Ghost Spider of Death!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 29
Disclose Notes: Art identification based on Battefield’s signed stories from Super-Mystery Comics #v6#6 (July, 1947), Western Crime Busters #8 (December, 1951), and Crime Mysteries #1 (May, 1952). Similarities include the light shining from light sources being drawn as spiky circles, onomatopoeia drawn as bold black letters with exclamation points, and faces drawn with simplistic details, unless it’s a close-up. Battefield is also particularly keen on shading scenes, with him not only shading characters’ backs in a distinct way, but also their faces, occasionally to the point of obscuring them with shadow for dramatic effect. He also tends to draw the antihelix of the ear either with what resembles a regular “S” or a backwards “S“, and shade hair with squared blotches resembling stacked lines.
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The Ghost Who Cried

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2

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