Crown Comics
#9
(May 1947)
McCombs,
1945 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1947-02-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Home Guide Publications
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia reads: Crown Comics, Spring Issue.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
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in Un Faux Livre (Delcourt, 2017 series) #[nn] (2017) [page 9]
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[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Noble Steele (signed as Steele)
- Inks
- Noble Steele (signed as Steele)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Bryan O'Flynn
[no title indexed]
Minnie Soo and Little Haha / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ralph Heimdahl (signed)
- Inks
- Ralph Heimdahl (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- See this little noose? It does some funny tricks in the next issue of "Crown"! Watch for it!
- Genre
- children; western-frontier
- Characters
- Minnie Soo; Little Haha
[no title indexed]
Bryan O'Flynn / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Noble Steele (signed)
- Inks
- Noble Steele (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...Introducing Bryan O'Flynn...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Noble Steele (explorer); Pip Squeak (young brother); Ah Kin Mai (Mayan priest); Mola (Mayan, Watcher of the Temple); Kukulcan (Mayan king); Hunac Mayan (slave)
- Synopsis
- As an explorer, adventurer and archeologist, Bryan O'Flynn travels to Yucatan to dig up the ancient Mayan culture. He takes a drug and goes back 500 years in time.
[no title indexed]
Buckskin / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Frank Bolle ? (plot); Leonard Starr ? (script)
- Pencils
- Frank Bolle (signed)
- Inks
- Leonard Starr (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Having killed some game...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Bartholmew Stewart (trapper); Yellow Fox (murderer); Adam West (crooked uncle)
- Synopsis
- Bart is after Yellow Fox for killing his mother and father. His own uncle is the man behind it.
Indexer Notes
In other stories by Bolle/Starr in #11, they are also credited to the script as well as artwork, plot by Bolle and script by Starr.
[no title indexed]
Master Marvin / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Whenever Master Marvin goes...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Master Marvin; Rivers (butler); Butch Bender (pal)
- Synopsis
- Marvin and Butch by train to a summer camp.
Indexer Notes
Digital Comics Museum has "Fox Elkan" as artist for this one, but have found nothing about him.
A Mystery of the Sea
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- adventure; non-fiction
- Characters
- Captain Mitchell; John Lewis (first mate)
- Synopsis
- The fatal journey of the vessel "Queen Helen" from Boston about 1880.
[no title indexed]
Vic Cutter / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Frank Bolle ? (plot); Leonard Starr ? (script)
- Pencils
- Frank Bolle (signed)
- Inks
- Leonard Starr (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I had opened my office several months before.
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Vic Cutter; Laura Ames (secretary); Solax; McCasey (police chief); Helen Martin
Indexer Notes
In other stories by Bolle/Starr in #11, they are also credited to the script as well as artwork, plot by Bolle and script by Starr.
[no title indexed]
Minnie Soo and Little HaHa / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ralph Heimdahl (signed)
- Inks
- Ralph Heimdahl (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yoo hoo, children!
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Characters
- Minnie Soo; Little HaHa
- Synopsis
- Minnie and Haha catch four enemy Crows.
[no title indexed]
Leif the Lucky / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Noble Steele (signed)
- Inks
- Noble Steele (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eric Westcott, crime reporter...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Eric Westcott (crime reporter); Leif the Lucky (dog); Dinah (society reporter); Mrs. Richwich (millionaire); Prince Yserk (crook)
- Synopsis
- A big diamond is stolen from Mrs. Richwich.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
["See this little noose? It does some funny tricks in the next issue of "Crown"! Watch for it!"]
Minnie Soo and Little Haha -
2.
["...Introducing Bryan O'Flynn..."]
Bryan O'Flynn -
3.
["Having killed some game..."]
Buckskin -
4.
["Whenever Master Marvin goes..."]
Master Marvin -
5.
A Mystery of the Sea
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6.
["I had opened my office several months before."]
Vic Cutter -
7.
["Yoo hoo, children!"]
Minnie Soo and Little HaHa -
8.
["Eric Westcott, crime reporter..."]
Leif the Lucky -
9.
Pocket Adding Machine
Tavella Sales Co. -
10.
New 3 Way Color Comicscope
Projector Sales Co.
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- Steinar Ådland
- Del Gruber
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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