Ideal #1
(July 1948)

Marvel, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
Bi-Monthly
On-sale Date
1948-04-13
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Timely Comics Inc.
Editing
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Issue Notes

Information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Timely/Atlas discussion list.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 2, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, 1948, p. 56, Copyright number: B135644.

Antony and Cleopatra (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
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Pencils
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Inks
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Colors
?
Letters
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Genre
adventure; romance
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All for the Love of a Woman! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 38 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
2629
Genre
adventure; romance

Indexer Notes

Historical account of Queen Cleopatra VII Philopater of Egypt (69-30 BC) and Roman general Marcus Antonius (81-30 BC); possibly based on the plays Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1607) and/or All for Love by John Dryden (1678).

Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
Rod Reed ?
Pencils
C. C. Beck (signed)
Inks
Pete Costanza (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Captain Tootsie and the Secret Legion are camping in the mountains.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Secret Legion: Captain Tootsie; Rollo
Coon Tail Charlie
Synopsis
While camping in the mountains, Captain Tootsie uses an Army Sniperscope to hunt down a killer bear at night.
Keywords
Army Sniperscope; bear; camping; hunting; mountains

The Observant Killer (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
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Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
detective-mystery
Reprints

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

Stamp News / text article / 0.31 page (report information)

Script
Kent B. Stiles
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction

The Corpses of Doctor Sacotti! (Table of Contents: 5)

An Ideal Classical Comics Coming Attraction! / promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
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Inks
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Colors
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Letters
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Job Number
2965
Genre
adventure

Indexer Notes

Preview of the next issue.
Note in last panel reads, "On sale the first week in May ..." (note added by Tom Lammers)

Don't Fail to Read These Other Wonderful Magazines Published by the Editors of Patsy Walker Comics! (Table of Contents: 6)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
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Indexer Notes

House Ad for Junior Miss, Two-Gun Kid, Jeanie, Miss America, and Wild West.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Antony and Cleopatra
  2. 1. All for the Love of a Woman!
  3. 2. Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light
    Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
  4. 3. The Observant Killer
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Stamp News
  6. 5. The Corpses of Doctor Sacotti!
    An Ideal Classical Comics Coming Attraction!
  7. 6. Don't Fail to Read These Other Wonderful Magazines Published by the Editors of Patsy Walker Comics!
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