Prize Comics
#v5#1 (49)
(January 1945)
Prize,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 5
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Feature Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Samuel Bierman ? (editor)
[no title indexed]
Boom Boom Brannigan / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hold on to your hats, reader!
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Boom Boom Brannigan; "Bet-A-Million" Fish; Gabby Garrett; Evil-Eye Edgar; Canvasback Carson; Ted Aster; Character; Dean Gunger
- Synopsis
- "Bet-A-Million" Fish gets Brannigan discredited by making people think Brannigan has the evil eye.
[The Adventure of Blooperman]
Frankenstein / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- An elf (introduction); Frankenstein; Blooperman (comic); Slugs
- Synopsis
- An elf temporarily turns Frankenstein into Blooperman.
[no title indexed]
Strange Facts Scrapbook / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Torchlight Squid
- Characters
- Pete
Indexer Notes
Information on the Torchlight Squid, a beard tax in Czarist Russia, Pete, a penguin who appears in movies, and scorpions.
Was reused and redrawn (traced?) from Dime Comics #9 (Bell Features), except for the scorpion information.
[no title indexed]
Little Chief Big Shot / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Howie Post (signed as Post)
- Inks
- Howie Post (signed as Post)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wish I could be a great warrior, too!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Little Chief Big Shot (introduction, only appearance); Gravity
- Synopsis
- Little Chief Big Shot hunts a bear.
The Die is Cast!
Prize Comics' Magic Page... / activity / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Doing a magic trick with a die and a box of 6 matches.
A Man From Berlin
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Karl Froelich; Hans Froelich
- Synopsis
- The commander of a German battleship speaks to a new man.
[no title indexed]
Prince Ra / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the vast madhouse that was the Third Reich, one had to be crazy indeed to attract attention and pity!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Prince Ra; Schmidt; Adolph Hitler; Hykos
- Synopsis
- A German inventor and pilot challenges Prince Ra to an air duel.
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. index card attached to online scanned version.
Bag the Axis
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy
- Synopsis
- The importance of recycling paper.
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. index card attached to online scanned version.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Boom Boom Brannigan -
1.
["Boys and girls! Here's how I landed a movie contract"]
-
2.
["Hold on to your hats, reader!"]
Boom Boom Brannigan -
3.
[The Adventure of Blooperman]
Frankenstein -
4.
["Torchlight Squid"]
Strange Facts Scrapbook -
5.
["I wish I could be a great warrior, too!"]
Little Chief Big Shot -
6.
The Die is Cast!
Prize Comics' Magic Page... -
7.
A Man From Berlin
-
8.
["In the vast madhouse that was the Third Reich, one had to be crazy indeed to attract attention and pity!"]
Prince Ra -
9.
Bag the Axis
-
10.
The Forgotten Memories
Yank and Doodle and Black Owl -
11.
["Be a radio technician"]
J. E. Smith -
12.
["Learn to defend yourself"]
Pickwick Co. -
13.
["He mailed this coupon"]
Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Daniel Martinez
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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