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| This certainly is an offbeat item in every way! I love encountering these obscure titles with no familiar characters whatsoever. It's as if it slipped in from a parallel world. Most entertaining! |
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| Weird--I wonder why they decided to go with "landscape" binding instead of "portrait" binding like every other publisher. But then this was the dawn of comic books. Maybe there was space on magazine stands for odd-shaped comics. |
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| "-I wonder why they decided to go with "landscape" binding instead of "portrait" binding"
Most of these look like SUNDAYS, rather than daily strips. Landscape was the normal format for SUNDAYS and still is. Would have been easier and cheaper to print them that way rather than reformat them into Portrait.
Sure are an obscure bunch of strips tho.
Oddly, the ADs are portrait ! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Jungle |
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| Credits | Script: Geo. West (signed) | Pencils: Geo. West (signed) | Inks: Geo. West (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Nina; Danny; Colonel Trent; Robert Fear; Miranda; Mombasa |
| Notes | copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp. Pages numbered 8 -13.
The Red Mask is the first African or minority hero in comics and is depicted as black-skinned on the cover of the first issue, but is depicted as a white-skinned hero on the cover of this issue, as well as the subsequent issues 3 and 4. His skin-tone alternates between black and white throughout the interior story pages (including panels where parts of his body have different skin coloring).
"George West/Geo. West" is a pseudonym for a as-yet unknown cartoonist. |
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| Text Story | Rescued by the Masked Rider (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Sam Brant] | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | "Sam Brant" was a house name used at Thrilling (Standard - Pines) from at least 1934 - 1956.
The Masked Rider first appeared in the pulp magazine The Masked Rider (Ranger Pub. Inc., 1934 series) v1#1 (April 1934). The magazine was taken over by Pines with Masked Rider Western Magazine (Better Pub. Inc., 1938 series) v4#2 (March 1938), and continued publication to Masked Rider Western (Better Pub. Inc., 1938 series) v33#1 (April 1953). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Silly Willie |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strips numbered 10 - 18. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strip numbered 6 |
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| Text Story | Chab's Jungle Friends (3 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Capt. Kerry McRoberts | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Script: George Scott (signed) | Pencils: George Scott (signed) | Inks: George Scott (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Nervy Nerts (introduction) |
| Notes | Copyright 1937 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strips numbered 27 - 29
"George Scott" is a pseudonym for a as-yet unknown cartoonist. He may be the same person who did Adventures of the Red Mask as "George West". |
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| Comic Story | No Fishing! (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
strip is numbered 7 |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strips numbered 10 - 17 |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strip #8 |
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| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
strips numbered 10 - 17 |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strip #9 |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Numbered 10 - 17 |
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| Comic Story | Ball game 50 cents (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strip #10 |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Stips numbered 10 - 16 |
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