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Issue: Jumbo Comics #17 Public Domain
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFiction House
On Sale Date: 05/13/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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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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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Cannibal Fury

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Sheena; The Lightning; The Hawk; Stuart Taylor; ZX-5
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Miscellaneous
1
Cannibal Fury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as W. Morgan Thomas] (credited)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Ali Rash (introduction, villain, death); Karen; Pasha Kamur; N'Gagi (introduction, a gorilla); Kirk Dunston; Sybil Dunston (his sister)
A Masai runner, carrying a note on the...
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Miscellaneous
10
Story title is taken from cover.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Golleh] (credited)
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Peter Pupp; Tinymite
Peter Pupp and his pal Tinymite are shot...
Reprinting
Cannibalized from the second half of the story in Jumbo Comics #1, where the strip is credited to Bob Kane.
Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Teller Tayles] (credited)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Lightning [Fred Larkin]; General Larkin; Joe (a saboteur); Rattler (his boss)
A powerful foreign power engages a ruthless gang...
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Miscellaneous
8
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Bobby
Bobby
My grandpa, who is 99 years, gives me...
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Uncle Otto
No Smoking
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Miscellaneous
0.5
This is a more decorative style than usual for Eisner.
The Ape-Master

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Lin Davies] (credited)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
jungle
Ken Hammond
Ken Hammond; Nikki-Tikki; Pubala; Dr. Filipe Silvera
The mad jungle scientist...
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Curt Davis] (credited)
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Stuart Taylor
Stuart Taylor; Dr. Hayward; Laura; Alexander the Great
A quiet evening at home begins the long-sought...
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Miscellaneous
9
Cardy ID is from Henry Steele original Index. If so, and I have no reason to doubt it, the first two pages are by a different artist. Henry suggests a resemblance to Edd Cartier.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Major Thorpe] (credited)
?
?
Subject Matter
espionage
ZX-5 Spies In Action
ZX-5; Arnold Crews; Manya; Erich; Edgar Harmon; Steve Clark; A. Himmled
ZX-5 is present at Army Air Force Headquarters.
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Miscellaneous
9
Sultan from original Henry Steele Index and Hames and I agree. Lee suggests Mazoujian again and I don't see the connection with previous attributions. Henry's current guess is early Nick Cardy.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Fred Sande] (credited)
?
?
Subject Matter
fantasy, western
Wilton of the West
Wiley Wilton; Snorty; The Crimson Rider; city of tiny people
Across the Arizona desert, under a blazing sun...
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Geo. Thatcher] (credited)
?
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Inspector Dayton
Inspector Dayton; Wini; Bob (a scientist); Mecho (a robot)
The crime smashing inspector foils the mechanical slave...
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Miscellaneous
7
Henry, Lee, and indexer all have unknown. Hames says Wojtkoski and shop. Last page is by a different artist.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Count of Monte Cristo
Villefort; Count Danglars; Fouche; Mercedes; Jocopo; Haydee
Villefort and Danglars have shot each other, after...
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FlagAce Comics Presents #4 published November 1987
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]second page only
 
Miscellaneous
2
Final episode.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Willis B. Rensie] (credited)
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Caleb; Captain Cortez; Maria; Nina Olez; Chauncy; Philip
What do you make of her, Caleb?
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Miscellaneous
8
A shop art job, with primary work by Zolnerowich. Signs of Mazoujian and others.

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