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| WOW! That is really something!! There were probably earlier comic books that had more than 164 pages, but how many of them can claim that 159 pages are devoted to a single, uninterrupted story?! Yeah, Big Little Books were a single story, and many of them had up to 300 pages +/-, but they were all single-panel per-page productions, even the "all-comics" BLBs. THIS is a true "graphic novel" in every sense of the word. From 1945! Amazing. Has there ever been anything like it before? Thanks SO much for uploading this, Snard! |
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| Apparently all of it is newspaper reprints, but it is still quite nice for it all to be compiled in a continuous manner.
There were also giant-sized comic books out before this, like Dell’s Four Color comics and Gilberton’s Classics Illustrated, but those were usually between 50-100 pages. Joe Palooka Visits the Lost City accounts for 159 pages, which was almost unheard of, only having been preceded by rare cases like the Andy Panda comic published by Western which had a comic story that was 185 pages. |
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| A few of Fox Features' early 1940s Giant Comics reached up to 194 pages, as they included the contents of 3 60+Page, or 4 52-Page, regular-sized, bi-monthly or quarterly series regular issues. |
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| Publication | 1945 | Price: 0.50 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Featuring | Joe Palooka |
| Credits | Pencils: Ham Fisher (signed) | Inks: Ham Fisher (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Joe Palooka; Ibi Ben Abou [also as Benny]; Jerry Leemy |
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| Contents | Contents (1 page) |
| Featuring | Joe Palooka |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Joe Palooka |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Joe Palooka Visits the Lost City (159 pages) |
| Featuring | Joe Palooka |
| Credits | Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
| Content | Genre: War; Sports | Characters: Joe Palooka; Ahmed; Ali; Babe; Beanie Lefcourt; Bill; Brichnitz; Carol; Colonel Dingle; Colonel Herman Zint; Corelli; Danny Fizdale; Dave Wilmot; Della Gushey; Doc Wyger; El Haschid; Floyd Minks; Frank; General Tad Lober; General Meeny; General Von Schmell; Harry; Herbert Hassenslaffer; Hubert; Ibi Ben Abou [also as Benny]; Jake; Jake Kane; Jeb Alltrash; Jerry Leemy; Joey; Knobby Walsh; Lee Clark; Lt. Betty Preedy; Lt. Buskin; Ma Palooka; Mike Jacobs; Miss Addletop; Miss Dobson; Miss Wilton; Mrs. Highsnute; Mrs. Widdam; Mustapha; Myrtle Hassenslaffer; Mr. Hassenslaffer; Mrs. Hassenslaffer; Omar; Pete; Queen Margaret Louise Francesca Maria Ursula Stephanie [also as Maggie]; Rosie Palooka; Ruffy; Sadaddin; Sgt. Van; Skeeter; The Assassin; Tinia; Tommy Widdam; Tuffy Hassenslaffer; Williams |
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| Text Story | Palooka Paragraphs (1 page) |
| Featuring | Joe Palooka |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Joe Palooka |
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| Text Article | About Ham Fisher, World-Famous Creator of Joe Palooka (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo); Ham Fisher | Inks:? (photo); Ham Fisher | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Ham Fisher (photo); General George C. Marshall (photo); Ann; Knobby Walsh; Ma Palooka |
| Notes | On inside back cover and back cover. |
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