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The Witness #1

Marvel · September 1948 · on sale 1948-07-18

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Identification plate

Series
The Witness (Marvel, 1948 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
September 1948
Key date
1948-09-00
On-sale date
1948-07-18
Indicia publisher
Marjean Magazine Corp.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Witnesscover1
2I Spoke To a Dead Man!comic story8The Witness (Intro; not the hero from Mystic #7); Joe Jameson (Intro); a Ghost (Intro)
4The Million Dollar Man-Trap!comic story10Robert Hammer (Intro; Death); Paul Murray (Intro; Death); Dean Nye (Intro; Death)
5The Testtext story2letters: typeset
7-text article0.33script: Kent B. Stiles
9Cross-Roadscomic story9George Murray (Intro)

Plus 5.67 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

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