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1May-June 1946
$0.10

Boy Explorers Comics #1

Harvey · May-June 1946

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Series
Boy Explorers Comics (Harvey, 1946 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
May-June 1946
Key date
1946-05-00
Indicia publisher
Family Comics Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Simon
1America's Most Popular Comic Heropromo (ad from the publisher)0.5
2Fun Packed Laugh Magazinespromo (ad from the publisher)0.5
3Talent for Troublecomic story12script: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Simon; letters: Howard FergusonBoy Explorers [intro; origin] (Gashouse, Mister Zero, Gadget, Smiley); Commodore Sindbad [intro]
4-promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Kirby; inks: Joe Simon
5An Adventure in Higher Vegetationcomic story3pencils: Jack Keeler; inks: Jack Keeler
6The Lesson in Room 308comic story7
7-comic story12script: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby; pencils: Joe Simon; inks: Joe Simon; letters: Howard Ferguson
8When Stuntman Was a Boytext story2letters: typeset
9-promo (ad from the publisher)0.5pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe SimonStuntman; Black Cat
10Sensational Hollywood Star Turns Terror!promo (ad from the publisher)0.5
11The Case of the Hapless Hackiecomic story8pencils: Bill Draut; inks: Bill Draut
12We're Giving Away...promo (ad from the publisher)0.5
13You're Sure It's Tops When You Read a Harvey Publicationpromo (ad from the publisher)0.5

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

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