Thrilling Comics
#36
(July 1943)
Pines,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-05-04
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Better Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Ned Pines
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 3.
[no title indexed]
Commando Cubs; Doc Strange / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; adventure
- Characters
- Doc Strange [Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thompson; Commando Cubs [Ace Browning; Pokey Jones; Horace Cosgrove II; Whizzer Malarkey; Spud O'Shea]
- Keywords
- cage; gorilla
Indexer Notes
Keith Chandler : Art was previously credited to Jack Binder ?.
[no title indexed]
Commando Cubs / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Richard Hughes (credited as Richard E. Hughes)
- Pencils
- Bob Oksner
- Inks
- Bob Oksner
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Out of the smashing thunder of total war come strange tales...
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- Commando Cubs [Ace Browning; Pokey Jones; Horace Cosgrove II; Whizzer Malarkey; Spud O'Shea] (introduction, origin); Uncle Sam [not the Quality hero]; Professor Musselbownd; Yvonne
Indexer Notes
Richard Hughes was previously credited with colours, but this was a result of a database glitch.
[no title indexed]
Doc Strange / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Three murders in vicious succession!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doc Strange [Doctor Thomas Hugo Strange]; Virginia Thompson; Moyo (Japanese spy)
Bird Fancier
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Lane Archer (credited)
- Pencils
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Donald Gillen's father was owner of a plantation...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Donald Gillen; Lieutenant George Carson; Mr. Gillen
[no title indexed]
Jimmy Cole / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bang! ...and we're off...
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Jimmy Cole; Frenchy Dolan (crook); The Runt (crook); Mr. Cole; Mrs. Bolt
Indexer Notes
Stanley Kaufmann ? was previously credited with colours, but this was a result of a database glitch.
Aide To Uncle Sam
text story / 1 page
- Script
- John S. Endicott (credited)
- Pencils
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Several doors from his own house...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Leonard Dillon; Otto (Nazi spy); Hans (Nazi spy)
[no title indexed]
The Ghost / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'd like to have known the great magician, Merlin!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Ghost [George Chance]; Betty Morris; the spirit of the Venerable Yogi; King Arthur; Merlin the Magician
Indexer Notes
Keith Chandler : Art was previously credited to August Froehlich, but compare the style to the signed Ghost story in the previous issue.
The Phantom Posse
Jimmy Blue / text story / 1 page
- Script
- Sam Brant (credited) (house name)
- Pencils
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jimmy Blue rode swiftly through the night...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Jimmy Blue; Tim Hardly
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Commando Cubs; Doc Strange -
1.
["Out of the smashing thunder of total war come strange tales..."]
Commando Cubs -
2.
["Three murders in vicious succession!"]
Doc Strange -
3.
Bird Fancier
-
4.
["Bang! ...and we're off..."]
Jimmy Cole -
5.
Aide To Uncle Sam
-
6.
["I'd like to have known the great magician, Merlin!"]
The Ghost -
7.
The Phantom Posse
Jimmy Blue -
8.
["Aided by invisibility pills..."]
Hale of the Herald
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Del Gruber
- Dan Kocher
- John Loffink
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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