(January 1945)

Pines, 1940 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
every other month
On-sale Date
1944-11-08
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Better Publications Inc.
Editing
Ned Pines (credited as N. L. Pines) (president)

Issue Notes

On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1945 Periodicals, page 108.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Pyroman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Alex Schomburg
Inks
Alex Schomburg
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Pyroman [Dick Martin]; Nazi soldiers
Keywords
dynamite; medicine; World War II
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Fighting Yank / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
A rain of ominous leaflets...
Genre
superhero

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Pyroman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Can any champion stand against a force...
Genre
superhero

Salvage Drive (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
William McClellan
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
crime

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Four Comrades / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Maurice Gutwirth
Inks
Maurice Gutwirth
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Four Comrades...four red-blooded American boys...
Genre
superhero

The Range Trail (Table of Contents: 5)

Jimmy Blue / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Sam Brant
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
western-frontier

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Captain Future / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
If you were to see meek, shy Andrew Bryant...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Future; Captain Swastika (intro; villain; death)

Dog Team Gold (Table of Contents: 7)

Buck Martin / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
John Easterly
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
adventure

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Oracle / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
August Froehlich
Inks
August Froehlich
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The new, invincible sky-fighter 'Salamander'...
Genre
superhero

Indexer Notes

Artist previously identified as possibly Henry Kiefer.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Pyroman
  2. 1. ["A rain of ominous leaflets..."]
    Fighting Yank
  3. 2. ["Can any champion stand against a force..."]
    Pyroman
  4. 3. Salvage Drive
  5. 4. ["Four Comrades...four red-blooded American boys..."]
    Four Comrades
  6. 5. The Range Trail
    Jimmy Blue
  7. 6. ["If you were to see meek, shy Andrew Bryant..."]
    Captain Future
  8. 7. Dog Team Gold
    Buck Martin
  9. 8. ["The new, invincible sky-fighter 'Salamander'..."]
    Oracle
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  • Pat Conolly
  • Del Gruber
  • Daniel Martinez
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Eric Schumacher
  • Len Wolinsky
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