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Omar Super-Book of Comics #1

Western · [September 30,] 1944] · on sale 1944-09-30

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Series
Omar Super-Book of Comics (Western, 1944 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
[September 30,] 1944]
Key date
1944-09-30
On-sale date
1944-09-30
Price
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Pages
16

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: ? [as Chester Gould] (signed); ?; inks: ? [as Chester Gould] (signed); ?; letters: typesetDick Tracy; Pat Patton; Omar Junior
1End of the Line for Jojo Nidlecomic story7script: Chester Gould; pencils: Chester Gould; inks: Chester GouldBrighton Spotts; Junior Tracy; Jojo Nidle's Gangsters (freight car thieves); Jojo Nidle (Boss of the freight car thieves); Train tanker car; Wilkie Wilkinson (town marshall); Spider (of Nidle's Gang, a freight car thief); Mike (of the Layton Valley Junction train station lunchroom); unnamed townsper
2German Troop Movements Revealed!comic story7.5script: Gaylord Du BoisSandy (R.A.F. pilot); Clarence Sweeney (U.S. war correspondent, friend of Omar, first appearance); Prince Omar (first appearance); Omar Junior (friend of Omar, first appearance); Nancy McKernan (friend of Omar, first appearance); Mama Carmela Rossi (innkeeper, Allied agent in occupied Turin, first a

Plus 0.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

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