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Issue: Speed Comics #10 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1940
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Issues: #10 of 11 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBrookwood
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Brookwood Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 15 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Maurice Rosenfield
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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 on-going series
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Genres: superhero
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Price Goes Up After This Sale

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Ad for the "Little Man" printing press from the Peck Brothers company from Mt. Carmel, Connecticut.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Comrade Ratski (Villain); Ratski's thug; Shock Gibson; Doctor Bronson; Professor Capcheck; RInceton College scientists; paperboy; earthquake victims; looters; State Police; Monster Beetle; bus passengers; Monster Spider; Monster Cockroach; mountain lion
First Line: At Yarvard College works Dr Bronson, famous scientist...
Synopsis: Comrade Ratski captures several noted scientists and forces them to create devices to cause mayhem in an effort to conquer America.
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Join the Shock Gibson Volunteers

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Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): The Flibbet sisters [Gail; other two unnamed] (Intro); Ni Lats (Villain, Intro, Death); The Three Aces [Cork; Crash; The Baron]; Guatos Indians of Paraguay
First Line: Down in Paraguay, the Three Aces knock about...job-hunting....
Synopsis: The Flibbet sisters hire the Three Aces to transport them to northern Paraguay so they can study the Guantos Indians. When they arrive it is discovered that Ni Lats had hypnotized the locals and, eventually, Gail Flibbet, to be under his command. While dodging to advances of the Flibbet's, The Three Aces along with the sisters defeat Ni Lats and free those under his control.
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sam (Ted's producer); Ted Parrish; waterfront dive thugs
First Line: Sam, I'm tired of these 'playboy' roles...
Synopsis: Ted arranges a fake kidnapping of his producer Sam to scare him into giving him more character roles. Ted soon finds himself having to rescue Sam as those he hired decided to make it a real kidnapping job. After his rescue, Sam puts Ted into a movie role he wanted that resulted in him winning the Academy Award for the role.
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Boxcar Battle

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Writer(s): Rex Rollins
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ralph Morgan; Duke; Lefty; One-Eye
Synopsis: Ralph takes a boxcar to New York to find a job when he ends up in a fight with Duke, Lefty, and One-Eye who attempt to rob him of his money.
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Genres: adventure, military
Character(s): Biff Bannon; Marine Corps officers; two spies
First Line: The government has to transport this secret ray-gun to Station X...
Synopsis: Biff is placed in charge of protecting a special shipment to Station X of the secret ray-gun. Biff has to fight off two spies onboard the train to protect the weapon.
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Writer(s): ? [as Ted C. Mariner] (signed)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lieutenant Jim Cannon; Ship's Captain; Walter Engels; Female G-1 Secret Agent; a cabbie
First Line: In an effort to reach safe harbor in an American port...
Synopsis: After Cannon saved the ship Majestic from a U-Boat, he soon finds himself entangled in a spy ring still trying to sink the ship while in port.
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Writer(s): ? [as Gregory Torey] (credited)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): John Powers (Intro); Landor; Jack Torrence; Marcia (Jack's fiancee); Kung-Fu-Tse; desk sergeant
First Line: With fiendish cunning, Landor, brilliant mad scientist, uses the mind...
Synopsis: Landor captures and brainwashes famed criminologist John Powers to help frame Torrence. Marcia and Kung-Fu-Tse work to rescue Powers and clear Jack's name.
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Demon Sleuths

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Genres: childrens
Character(s): Nick and Dick (Intro); Riley the cop; two robbers; cops
Synopsis: Nick and Dick track down bank robbers to try to win the $250 reward for their capture. After Nick is captured by the robbers, Dick tracks down Riley the cop to rescue him. Following a trail of jelly beans left by Nick, Dick, Riley, and other policemen track down the criminal's hiding place and rescue Nick.
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mars Mason; original inhabitants of Uranus; Earth-Men from the out-post; Mercurians
First Line: Mars is sent to open a new air route...
Synopsis: On his way to set up mail service between the Earth and Uranus, Mars found himself involved in rescuing Earth-Men from an outpost on Uranus from local creatures. Mars helps those men in their plans to redirect solar energy to warm up the planet for colonization only to find himself having to fight off creatures from Mercury who want to have the plan to themselves.
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Writer(s): ? [as Carl Larson] (credited)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spike Marlin; bar patrons; Dan O'Brien; kidnappers; diving ship's Captain and crew
First Line: Treasure and treachery go hand in hand as Spike churns the seas...
Synopsis: Spike has to save noted diver and treasure hunter, Dan O'Brien, from kidnappers, and octopus, and treasure thieves.
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Disclose Notes: credited to Carl Larson, but not George Tuska
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Rush Coupon for Mammoth Catalog

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Ad for Johnson Smith & Co. of Detroit, Michigan's catalog of novelty items.
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Fifty Famous Fingers

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Character(s): Dionne Quintuplets [Cecile; Annette; Marie; Tyonne; Emelie]
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Ad for Remington Noiseless Typewriters from the Remington Rand Inc. of Buffalo, New York, using the Dionne Quintuplets from Quebec, Canada.

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