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Reduced from the Rolster scans
Now c2c with pages 98 and 99 added from eBay.
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Original art from this issue can be found on James Halperin's website starting here -
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Issue: #1
Published: August 1941, Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD, Pages: 100, Editing: Alfred Harvey
Color: Color Cover Dimensions: Digest Size Paper Stock: Binding: Publishing Format:
Notes: Additional sequences by Gary Watson, 8/26/2006.
POCKET COMICS, Volume 1, number 1, August 1941. Published bi-monthly by Alfred Harvey, 55 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. Application for entry as second class matter pending at the Post Office in New York. Copyright 1941, by Alfred Harvey, New York, N. Y., U. S. A. Price 10 cents per copy. In Canada 15 cents per copy. Subscription for six issues, 60 cents in U. S. A. (Other countries 85 cents). Contents must not be reproduced without written permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in U. S. A.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Spirit of '76 |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Joe Simon | Inks: Joe Simon |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Spirit Of '76 |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
Contest |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Phantom Sphinx |
| Synopsis: |
Dr. Salle and his companions discover a long lost tomb that contains the remains of General Amron, who was put into a hypnotic sleep by his father some 6000 years before. However, a notorious bandit named Norton kills all the explorers, reads Salle's notes, and revives the mummy using the Star Sirius, a pebble. Rising from his long sleep, the mummy, heeding the words of his father, becomes the Phantom Sphinx and avenges the wrongs that have been done. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Pierce Rice | Inks: Louis Cazeneuve |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Phantom Sphinx [General Amron] (introduction, Origin) Dr. Salle (scientist, Introduction) Nancy Taylor (American Reporter) Red Norton (villain, Bandit, Death) Suliman The Terrible (villain, Transformed Into A Camel) |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
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British Agent 99 |
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Traveling to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on his first assignment, in the disguise of an American reporter, Agent 99 saves a young girl from the Nazis and tells her that he is in Yugoslavia to protect her from Gestapo agents. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as William Churchill, Jr. (byline)] | Pencils: Arturo Cazeneuve | Inks: Arturo Cazeneuve |
| Genre: |
Adventure War |
| Characters: |
British Agent 99 [Alan Douglas, Aka Hal Payne As An American Reporter] (introduction, Origin, Former Hollywood Star) General Douglas (flashback, Alan's Father, Death) Sultana Zaida Chuck Herr Karl Vern (villain) Fritz (villain) Heinrich (villain, Vern's Chauffeur) The Nazis (villains) |
| Text Article (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Meet the Stars |
| Text Story (4 pages) |
The Zebra's Murder Case |
| Featuring: |
Zebra |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as Ellery King] | Pencils: Pierce Rice ? | Inks: Pierce Rice ? |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Filler (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Ditto |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Byghe |
| Filler (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Best Laughs of the Month |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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