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Issue: Startling Comics #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1940
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Issues: #2 of 53 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/28/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines
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: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Future
Character(s): Captain Future [Andrew Bryant]
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Pages: 1
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The Munitions Men Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Future
Character(s): Boris Klubek (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 11
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At the headquarters of the United States military intelligence...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Don Davis
Character(s): Lt. Don Davis (introduction); Mohler (villain, introduction); his spy ring (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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The Return of Dr. Slade

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Mystico
Character(s): Dr. Slade (villain, death)
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Pages: 6
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A wave of hijacking breaks out!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leo Morey
Inker(s): Leo Morey
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): G-Man Dalton
Character(s): Colfax (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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Revolution In Chilina! President Flees!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Scoop Langdon
Character(s): Casados (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 6
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Two men flee through the wild African jungle!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Lehti
Inker(s): Jack Lehti
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Biff Powers
Character(s): Tom Carson (introduction); Biff Powers (introduction); Marcia Beale (introduction); Marvin Beale (villain, introduction, death); Weki (introduction)
Synopsis: The Carson Circus dispatches Powers to capture a saber tooth tiger in Africa. The Trans-American Circus sends Beale and his niece to beat him to the prize. All are captured by the Klombosi tribe and sentenced to be sacrificed to the tiger, but Biff and Marcia escape.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Biff and Marcia come back to use Weki's guidance in issue #4. Since that story is set in Angola, this may be too.
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Jerry Guards the Gold

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Donald Bayne Hobart
Colorist(s): Donald Bayne Hobart
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Riding north into the Dakota bad-lands...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Daly
Inker(s): John Daly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Masked Rider
Character(s): Walford (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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Walking along the waterfront, Burke meets trouble!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Thayer
Inker(s): Ray Thayer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Detective Sgt. Burke
Character(s): Otis Panken (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 7
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Danny Remembers

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Donald Bayne Hobart
Colorist(s): Donald Bayne Hobart
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Either you boys bring in Homicide Harvey or I get me two new deputy sheriffs!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Kin Platt
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): Kin Platt
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Happy and Snappy
Character(s): Happy (villain, introduction); Snappy (villain, introduction); Homicide Harvey (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 3

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