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72April 1948
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Modern Comics #72

Quality Comics · April 1948

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Series
Modern Comics (Quality Comics, 1945 series)
Issue
#72
Publication date
April 1948
Key date
1948-04-10
Indicia publisher
Comic Magazines
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Blackhawk battles the bandit lord, Blackbeard!cover1pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
1The Blackhawks Vs. Blackbeardcomic story13pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed CrandallBlackbeard (first appearance; villain; death); Davorr (first appearance; villain; death)
2Fire Fightin' Foolcomic story6script: Paul Gustavson; pencils: Paul Gustavson; inks: Paul Gustavson; letters: Paul GustavsonWill Bragg
3The Masked Drivercomic story6script: Bart Tumey; pencils: Bart Tumey; inks: Bart Tumey
4The Crooked Reducing Salon Gigcomic story6script: Bill Ward; pencils: Bill Ward; inks: Bill Ward
5-comic story1
6The Busboy Blundercomic story7script: Harry Sahle; pencils: Harry Sahle; inks: Harry Sahle
7The Flying Diskstext story1.67letters: typeset
8Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.statement of ownership0.33letters: typeset
9A Day at the Circuscomic story6script: Gill Fox; pencils: Gill Fox; inks: Gill Fox

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