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Publisher: Pines

Title: Exciting Comics
Issue: 1 (1)
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: April 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Ned Pines [as N.L. Pines] (president)

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Exciting 1 Church Copy
Owner: cheetah

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Major Mars
Pages:1
Pencils:L. North (swipe)
Inks:L. North
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Major Mars; Grag (robot)


Story Title: The Mask Strikes - comic story
Features:The Mask
Pages:11
Pencils:Raymond Thayer (signed)
Inks:Raymond Thayer (signed)
Colors:Raymond Thayer ?
Characters:The Mask [Tony Colby] (first appearance, origin); Silk Davis (first appearance); Carol Smith (first appearance); Olly Snate (first appearance, villain)


Story Title: The Beast Plague from Jupiter - comic story
Features:Major Mars
Pages:12
Pencils:Max Plaisted
Inks:Max Plaisted
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Major Mars (introduction); Grag (introduction, a robot); Joan Jilson (introduction); The Space Emperor [Kells] (villain, introduction)


Story Title: In No-Man's-Land - comic story
Features:Sergeant Bill King
Pages:6
Pencils:Leonard Sansone
Inks:Leonard Sansone
Genre:war
Characters:Sergeant Bill King (introduction); the Nazis (villains)


Story Title: The Black Inferno - comic story
Features:Jim Hatfield, Texas Ranger
Pages:8
Characters:Jim Hatfield (first appearance, a Texas Ranger); Capt. McDowell (first appearance); Padre Borasho (first appearance, villain, death); Sen. Crocker (first appearance, villain); Slade (first appearance, villain)


Story Title: Payoff in Lead - comic story
Features:Gunner Thompson
Pages:6
Characters:Gunner Thompson (first appearance, only appearance)


Story Title: Deep Sea Drama on Parade - comic story
Features:Hy Hardy, Ace Newsreel Cameraman
Pages:10
Pencils:Ken Browne (signed)
Inks:Ken Browne (signed)
Characters:Hy Hardy (first appearance, only appearance)


Story Title: A Real Waddy - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Forbes Case - comic story
Features:Dan Williams, Private Investigator
Pages:7
Pencils:Ray Lowry (signed)
Inks:Ray Lowry (signed)
Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:Dan Williams (first appearance); Caroline Forbes (first appearance); John Blodgett (first appearance, villain)


Story Title: I'm gone on a trip around the world... - comic story
Features:Make-Believe Mickey
Pages:2.5
Pencils:Klaus Nordling [as Nord] (signed)
Inks:Klaus Nordling [as Nord] (signed)
Colors:Klaus Nordling
Genre:humor
Characters:Make-Believe Mickey (first appearance)


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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