(March 1945)

Pines, 1940 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
every other month
On-sale Date
1945-01-05
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)

Fighting Yank / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Alex Schomburg
Inks
Alex Schomburg
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Japanese soldiers
Keywords
World War II
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Fighting Yank / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ringed by mighty defenses...
Genre
superhero

Dog Rescue (Table of Contents: 2)

Herbie Johnson / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Donald Bayne Hobart (credited)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Pyroman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
With the super-power of thousands of electric volts in his body...
Genre
superhero

Jewel Thief (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob Sturdy
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Don Davis / comic story / 5.8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Don Davis almost meets his match...

Indexer Notes

The Statement of Ownership takes up the bottom 10% of the last 2 pages.

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

statement of ownership / 0.2 page (report information)

Script
H. L. Herbert (business manager)
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Appears on the bottom of the last two Don Davis pages.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
Everett Raymond Kinstler
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What man could withstand the Nazi-inspired onslaughts...
Genre
superhero

Klondike Gold (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Captain Kerry McRoberts
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Oracle / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
August Froehlich
Inks
August Froehlich
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
When a cunning Jap plot almost succeeds...

Indexer Notes

Artist previously identified as possibly Henry Kiefer.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Cap’n Tim Turtle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Arman Williams (credited)
Pencils
Arman Williams (credited)
Inks
Arman Williams (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Fighting Yank
  2. 1. ["Ringed by mighty defenses..."]
    Fighting Yank
  3. 2. Dog Rescue
    Herbie Johnson
  4. 3. ["With the super-power of thousands of electric volts in his body..."]
    Pyroman
  5. 4. Jewel Thief
  6. 5. ["Don Davis almost meets his match..."]
    Don Davis
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
  8. 7. ["What man could withstand the Nazi-inspired onslaughts..."]
    Captain Future
  9. 8. Klondike Gold
  10. 9. ["When a cunning Jap plot almost succeeds..."]
    Oracle
  11. 10. [no title indexed]
    Cap’n Tim Turtle
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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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