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| "Stencho Odora" is a great villain name, though here he's a comical good guy. "Frank Swinatra" sounds like a funny animal version of Ol' Blue Eyes. |
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| Interesting book.
1/ Very weird cover. They didn't have mechanical agriculture then? Tracotrs and Plows?
2/ The Steel Sterling story is Irv Novick at his best.
Frank Swinatra is definitely a thinly discuised Frankie.
This would have been published at the height of his first career, when 'Bobby-soxers' would mob him and scream loudly at his concerts. You thought that started with the Beatles, didn't you?
3/ The two Bill Vigoda [Brother of Abe] stories here are a revelation, being examples of non-archie storytelling. |
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| This 1945 book is essentially a reprinting of MLJ's Zip Comics #46, from May, 1944, as all its stories were all taken from that book. Only the adverts and an informational page were different. It makes no sense to me that MLJ would lease stories and cover art from books issued from less than one year to a little over one year before, to an unrelated publisher, who only published a few comic book very short-lived series, sporadically. I rather think that Green Publishing bought the plates of artwork at bargain bin prices from a printer who MLJ had used, a year before, but were no longer using. It appears that Green, like Norlen and I.W./Super Comics, obtained ALL their artwork in that same manner. |
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| This comic is my 2nd exposure to Red Rube. As I enjoy body transfer heroes, this was enjoyable, if somewhat simplistic. I need to dig up his origin. How did he get the power and the magic phrase?
And the villain's recited formula? Shades of Johnny Quick. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Text Article | Contents (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Wand of Weirdness (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Steel Sterling |
| Credits | Script: Otto Binder | Pencils: Irv Novick | Inks: Irv Novick |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Featuring | Steel Sterling |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Comic Story | Stencho's Woman Problems (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Senor Banana |
| Credits | Script: Ed Goggin | Pencils: Harry Sahle | Inks: Terry Szenics |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Advertisement | Archie Is Good for What Ails You! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Archie |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Vigoda (signed) | Inks: Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| Notes | Ad for the Archie radio program. |
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| Comic Story | County Fair (5 pages) |
| Featuring | The Slaphappy Applejacks |
| Credits | Pencils: Harry Sahle | Inks: Terry Szenics |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Frank Swinatra (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Ginger |
| Credits | Pencils: Janice Valleau [as Ginger] | Inks: Janice Valleau [as Ginger] |
| Content | Genre: Teen |
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| Comic Story | The Fourth Dimensional Dr. Karvalla (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Red Rube |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Vigoda (signed) | Inks: Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Text Story | The Future and the Past (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Harry Rose | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Introducing the Flying Dragons (6 pages) |
| Featuring | The Flying Dragons |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Vigoda (signed) | Inks: Bill Vigoda (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation |
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