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Issue: Sure-Fire Comics #1

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Publication Date: June 1940

Issue v1 #1

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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: Ace

Indicia Publisher: Ace Magazines Inc.

On Sale Date: 04/14/1940

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (8 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Aaron A. Wyn

Notes: Pat Lamar packaged this issue for Ace, and per the NY Supreme Court December 1941 hearing records, his studio provided 47 pages of scripts, 64 pages of coloring, and the 60 pages of comics, lettering and logos, etc. 15 pages of script were not provided by Lamar. Lamar stated that he had done comics work for Harry Donenfeld, but that his only artwork for Ace were corrections requested by the art director.

On sale date from the fanzine, Fantasy News, dated April 14, 1940 (on page 3). The comic was scheduled for release during the week of April 14-20, 1940. Information shared by Bart Bush through the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (4 October 2016).

Publication date of 25 March 1940 was reported to the U.S. Copyright Office and found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Copyright number B 451091.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: full color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (13 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash Lightning

Character(s): Flash Lightning [Robert Morgan]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Flash is surrounded by splashes from three inside features: Flash Lightning, Hap Hazzard and The Raven.

Lt. Col. W. G. Barker

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ajay Hull (signed)

Inker(s): Ajay Hull (signed)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

Feature(s): Famous Daredevils Of History

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ajay likely to stand for the initials A.J.

Ambassador of Doom

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Turner ? [as Brand House] (credited)

Penciller(s): George Appel ?

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): X, the Phantom Fed

Character(s): X (a federal agent; Intro); the Green Mask [Sam Barkley] (villain; introduction; death)

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Pages: 15

Notes: Based on the magazine "Secret Agent 'X'" May 1934 story; per Mark Trost in Blood 'n' Thunder #30 (Summer 2011). Brant (not Brand) House was the pen name of the writers for the Secret Agent 'X" pulp.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Turner

Penciller(s): Harry Lucey

Inker(s): Harry Lucey

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): 'Flash' Lightning

Character(s): 'Flash' Lightning [Robert Morgan](introduction, origin); Old Man of the Pyramids (introduction); the Phoenix (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: Egypt--the land of eerie mystery...

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Pages: 12

Notes: Based on the magazine Captain Hazard pulp story for May 1938, per Mark Trost in Blood 'n' Thunder #30 (Summer 2011).

Inker credit by Craig Delich.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Turner

Penciller(s): Martin Naydel

Inker(s): Martin Naydel

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Raven

Character(s): The Raven [Danny Dartin] (introduction); Mike; Jack; Lola Lash; Captain Lash; Flanagan; McGowan; Allen Reynolds (villain, crooked stock promoter); Arthur Wells (villain, a charity fraud)

First Line: The Raven, master avenger, preys on the clever crooks...

Synopsis: The Raven robs Reynolds and Wells and gives the money to the poor.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Based on the story "The Sinister Sphere", the first Moon Man story, which appeared in Ten Detective Aces June 1933; per Mark Trost in Blood 'n' Thunder #30 (Summer 2011).

The Big Moment

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Whiz Wilson

Character(s): Whiz Wilson (Intro)

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Pages: 5

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Marvo the Magician

Character(s): Marvo the Magician (Intro); Tito (Intro)

First Line: Introducing Marvo the Magician and his monkey, Tito...

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Pages: 6

Clues That Caught Criminals

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Ace McCoy

Character(s): Ace McCoy (Intro)

First Line: That front ship is an odd-looking cross...

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Pages: 8

Meet "Hap" Hazard

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Joe Archibald (signed)

Penciller(s): Joe Archibald (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Archibald (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Hap Hazard

Character(s): Hap Hazard (introduction)

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Buck Steele

Character(s): Buck Steele (Intro)

First Line: Meet Buck Steele--his horse Blackie--and his dog Rusty...

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Pages: 7

Read These! Every Month

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for Amazing Man, with miniature splash pages of A-Man, Iron Skull, Minimidget, and the Shark
from Amazing Man #11, April 1940.

Sure-Fire Comics Is published by the publishers of these well-known Ace Magazines

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Pages: 1

Notes: Showing 16 Ace Magazine covers.