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Issue: Thrilling Comics #2 (8) Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1940
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Issues: #2 (8) of 80 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Better Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/18/1940
Volume: 3
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines] (president)
Disclose Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/)

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): Dr. Strange
Character(s): Dr. Strange [Dr. Thomas Hugo Strange] (also inset)
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Pages: 1
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Here They Are!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: House ad for the publisher's full line of comics & pulps - The Thrilling Group - with small cover reproductions
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Pages: 1
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Dr. Strange in the South Seas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes ?
Penciller(s): George Mandel
Inker(s): George Mandel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Dr. Strange
Character(s): Dr. Strange [Dr. Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thomson (Strange's fiancee); wax museum guard (death); museum director; Ramon Lobelo (villain, introduction, death); Lobelo's gang (villains, introduction for all, many die)
Synopsis: Dr. Strange responds to a news flash of six ships misteriously disappearing in the South Seas.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Art credits identified by Mark Heike.

Dr. Strange gets his limitless powers from Alosun, a miraculous distillate of sun atoms.
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Fenton and the Electrical Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Norman Daniels ?
Penciller(s): Elmer Wexler
Inker(s): Elmer Wexler
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Ghost
Character(s): The Ghost [George Chance; also as Blackie]; Yogis (cameo); Lee (U.S. Army Major); un-named Governor; Nevins (scientist-inventor); Emperor Nero; Professor Fenton (villain, kidnapper, inventor); Professor Schultz (villain); Fenton's gang [Blackie; rest un-named] (villains, some die)
Synopsis: The Ghost is called into action when the electrode, an invention capable of transmitting electrical current anywhere without wires, is stolen from a scientist named Nevins. The Ghost tracks down the criminals and transports them back to ancient Rome when he comes up against Emperor Nero and his minions.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Script credit and artist revision from George Mandel to Wexler by Craig Delich.
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Dr. Heinrich's Magnetic Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Tom Niles, Undersea Raider
Character(s): Dr. Heinrich (villain, introduction); Helen Ames (villain, introduction); the Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 7
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Murder In a Riverdale Mansion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Mandel
Inker(s): George Mandel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Woman In Red
Character(s): The Woman in Red [Peggy Allen]; un-named Police Commissioner; Robert Parsons (Violet's brother); Frank Parsons (Violet's brother, death); Henry Parsons (Violet's brother, death); un-named butler; Violet Parsons (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Peggy is assigned to accompany Violet Parsons to the home of the late and murdered brother Frank, as she is afraid she will be the next to be killed. When Peggy is nearly slain herself, she investigates as the Lady in Red, and discovers a secret member of the family who is considered mad.
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Pages: 6
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A Surprise For Officer Kelly

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Barry Brandon
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Monty Brown
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Pages: 1
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The Secret Aircraft Carrier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Elmer Wexler
Inker(s): Elmer Wexler
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Lone Eagle
Character(s): Capt. Krieger (villain, introduction); Hauser (villain, introduction); Schmidt (villain, introduction); Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 6
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The Debut of Dan Duffy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dan Duffy, College Athlete
Character(s): Dan Duffy (introduction); Torelli (villain, introduction); Clem Foster (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Dan Duffy]
Penciller(s): Kin Platt
Inker(s): Kin Platt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Pigskin Pointers By Dan Duffy
First Line: Gee, Dan - Tell Us Somethin' How You play Football, Huh?
Synopsis: Dan Duffy teaches football fundamentals.
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Pages: 1
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The Outlaw Quirt Bronson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Daly
Inker(s): John Daly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): The Rio Kid
Character(s): The Rio Kid; Crandall (rancher, introduction); Marge Crandall (Crandall's daughter, introduction); un-named Sheriff (introduction); Quirt Bronson (villain, introduction); Bronson's gang (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: The Rio Kid follows a varmit that attacked him and discovers a gang of cut-throats who have waylaid the rancher and kidnapped his daughter......all to get at some gold nuggets the rancher discovered.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Fred Schwab was known to have written this strip in 1940. However, he usually wrote what he drew, and it is known that he wrote and drew this feature in 1940. However, this art is by Daly and therefore writer credit left with a ?.
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The Abduction of Hiram South

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Leonard Sansone
Inker(s): Leonard Sansone
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Nickie Norton of the Secret Service
Character(s): Nickie Norton; Brent (villain, introduction); Dr. Hiram South (introduction)
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Pages: 8
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Enthusiasm is the Road to Victory!

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ned Pines ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Chats with the Editor
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional ad, in part, for the Thrilling Club. To join, the reader is to tear the cover title masthead off and mail it in with an SASE to the editor. There is a coupon to mail in with the masthead, and it asks the reader to select the best three features in Thrilling Comics by checking the appropriate boxes.

Letters from readers are also printed.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray McGill
Penciller(s): Ray McGill (signed)
Inker(s): Ray McGill (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The McCoys
First Line: Yoo Hoo - Mickey!
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Pages: 2

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