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Issue: Jumbo Comics #18 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1940
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Issues: #18 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: 07/01/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from previous issue (below the indicia).
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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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Satan's Safari

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Sheena
Character(s): Sheena
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Watch Your Newsstand for Wings

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Synopsis: House ad for the new Fiction House comic: Wings (no illustrations or cover reproduction)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is the inside-front cover
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Satan's Safari

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as W. Morgan Thomas] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Sheena
Character(s): Sheena; Bob Reynolds; GS: Kirk and Sybil Dunton; V: Karen, Pasha Kamur (D), Mahmoud (I)
First Line: In the tiny coastal village of Karba, just...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Title taken from cover.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Golleh] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Peter Pupp; Tiny; The Weather Man; Merkin
First Line: Peter Pupp and 'Tiny,' on their way to the Moon...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Reprinted from JUMBO COMICS #2 - the first four pages only. Hames says it's not Bob Kane. Did he not originate the strip?

The story in Jumbo Comics #2 is both credited to and signed on each page by Bob Kane.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Major Thorpe] (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): ZX-5 Spies In Action
Character(s): ZX-5; Bouchy (a foreign spy; death); Omu
First Line: Juroby, in Chesterland, an east African colony...
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Curt Davis] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Stuart Taylor
Character(s): Stuart Taylor; Dr. Hayward; Laura Rodgers [The High Priestess]; Professor Hardwell; Rameses
First Line: Ready, Stuart? We can't keep a famous archaelogist...
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Bobby
Character(s): Bobby
First Line: Do you know that if you're bad and...
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Uncle Otto; Joe T. Durp
First Line: Vote for Joe T Durp for...
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Pages: 0.5
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The Underground Desperadoes

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 Morgan Larkin; Giblin; Grime; Ann Giblin; Ricco; Mr. Lefage
First Line: General Morgan Larkin, U.S.A., confers with...
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Title taken from the cover.
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The Witch of Allah

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lin Davies] (credited)
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Ken Hammond
Character(s): Ken Hammond; Nikki-Tikki' Pubala
First Line: Loaded with chains...
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Fred Sande] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Wilton of the West
Character(s): Wiley Wilton; Eddie; The Crimson Rider; Bud-Eye Sondiss; Al
First Line: A drowsy southwestern town awakens to find itself...
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Geo. Thatcher] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Inspector Dayton
Character(s): Inspector Dayton; Ah Sung; Smiley; Roque; John Damian; Wini Damian
First Line: In a lonely street in Chinatown...
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Willis B. Rensie] (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Character(s): The Hawk; Hutch; Tom the cabin boy; Maria de Cordoba; Caleb; Pinez
First Line: While his ship lies anchored in a cove...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Diverse hands at work on occasional panels.
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The Bull's-Eye on the Cover Means...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: House ad for the other 3 Fiction House titles: Jungle, Fight and Planet, with cover reproductions.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is the inside-back cover

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