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Issue: Jumbo Comics #16 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1940
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Issues: #16 of 167 Issues (168 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
Brand: Fiction House MagazinesView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Real Adventures Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/12/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 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 451776.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: black and white (#1-8); color (#9 onwards)
Dimensions: tabloid:10.5 x 14 1/2 (#1-8); 8.5 x 10.5 inches (#9); standard Golden Age U.S. (#10 onwards)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Lightning Strikes Twice!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lightning
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In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: art is very much in homage to Lou Fine.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Sheena
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Memba Sasa; Corporal Rodney Gates; Chim; Sultani Modera
First Line: Bob, look! Kuba the buffalo is attacking that...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Golleh] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Peter Pupp
Character(s): Peter Pupp; Tinymite; Watt A. Dogg
First Line: Peter Pupp and his new associate, Tinymite, are...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Partially reprinted from Jumbo Comics #1, with panels cut and repasted, additional panels and some new dialogue added, and reduced from four pages to two. In that issue credit is given to Bob Kane.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical
Feature(s): The Hawk
Character(s): The Hawk; Sagua; Merrystone; Monk; Fluth
First Line: As dawn breaks over the tropical town of...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Much abridged reprints of pages 41-50 of the original Eisner-Iger syndicated strip, reconfigured and reworked to fit the aspect ratio of the comic book page.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Teller Tayles] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lightning [Fred Larkin]; General Larkin; Sledge
First Line: Behind the grey, grim walls of the state...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Bobby
Character(s): Bobby
First Line: Young man, why do you stare at me?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Pee Wee
Character(s): Pee Wee Myers; his teacher
First Line: Pee Wee Myers won't be at school today...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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The Crocodile Death

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lin Davies] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Ken Hammond
Character(s): Ken Hammond; Nikki-Tikki; Pubala
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Stuart Taylor
Character(s): Dr. Hayward; Laura; Zingala; King Molat
First Line: In their time-space ship, Dr. Hayward, Stuart Taylor...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: possibly Alex Blum on last page. Who is Courtney Thompson [listed in original index for this story]?

Curt Davis is credited but it may have been ghost work.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action
Character(s): Josoix; Herr Gottler; Manya
First Line: Disregarding the possibility of a world conflict, and...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: page 8 may be by yet another artist.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wilton of the West
Character(s): Mr. Prinz
First Line: Wilton hears the report of a gun. He...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Some material "inspired" by Lou Fine.

Fred Sande is credited, but was likely done as ghost work.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Count of Monte Cristo
Character(s): Mercedes; Albert; Fernand Mondego; Jocopo; Villefort; Danglars; Foché
First Line: In the grey dawn of the next day...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Inspector Dayton
Character(s): Lo Sing; Wini; Dr. Sung; Mong
First Line: In the depths of China, the small province of...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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