(June 1952)

Fiction House, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
every other month
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Flying Stories Inc.
Brand
Fiction House Magazines
Editing
Jack Byrne (managing editor); S. M. Iger (art director)

Navaho Gold (Table of Contents)

Firehair / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Iger Shop
Inks
Iger Shop
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Firehair
Reprints

Indexer Notes

JV notes some simlarities in the background figures to Lee J. Ames. Curious.

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Firehair / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
? [as John Starr]
Pencils
August Froehlich; Bob Lubbers
Inks
August Froehlich; Bob Lubbers
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Whip Wingo, the lone hand trader, called himself...
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Firehair [Lynn Cabot]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Lubbers was responsible for the faces in the original. Backgrounds have been added here by a new artist - probably part of the Iger Shop. There is no relation in EITHER story to "Navaho Gold" - the title shown on this cover.

Captain John Smith (Table of Contents: 2)

Famous Fighters / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Lou Cameron (signed)
Inks
Lou Cameron (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The year: 1608. The place: Virginia. And with...
Genre
adventure; non-fiction; biography; western-frontier
Characters
Captain John Smith
Reprints

Last Secret (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
science fiction
Reprints

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

Suicide Smith / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
? [as A. A. Carruthers]
Pencils
John Belcastro (signed)
Inks
John Belcastro (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Through the hills of North Korea, enemy armor...
Genre
war; aviation
Reprints

Indexer Notes

They didn't even get the "A.E. Carruthers" house name correct.

Men on Other Worlds (Table of Contents: 5)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
? [as Wendell Grimm]
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
science fiction

Indexer Notes

Appears to be material reprinted from various Planet stories with some new unifying text added. Possibly some of this is early Murphy Anderson.

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

The Eye / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
? [as Joe Leiner]
Pencils
Frank Frollo
Inks
Frank Frollo
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
It started in California...at the Simplex aircraft...
Genre
crime
Reprints

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

Cowboy Bob / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield ?; Iger Shop
Inks
David Heames ?; ? (shop)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Saddle-Rock Mesa. Up in the hills back of...
Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Cowboy Bob
Reprints
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Navaho Gold
    Firehair
  2. 1. ["Whip Wingo, the lone hand trader, called himself..."]
    Firehair
  3. 2. Captain John Smith
    Famous Fighters
  4. 3. Last Secret
  5. 4. ["Through the hills of North Korea, enemy armor..."]
    Suicide Smith
  6. 5. Men on Other Worlds
  7. 6. ["It started in California...at the Simplex aircraft..."]
    The Eye
  8. 7. ["Saddle-Rock Mesa. Up in the hills back of..."]
    Cowboy Bob
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  • Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
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