<i>Super Magician Comics</i> No. 12
date: label: date made
content: 1943
name: label: maker
content: Dell Publishing Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Super Magician Comics</i> Vol. 1 No. 12 was published by Street and Smith in April 1943. Jack Binder illustrated the cover that depicts the magician Blackstone and his assistant Rhoda battling Baal. The issue also featured the Marionettes in “The Hindu Rope Trick,” Desperate Ambrose in “Secret Weapon!” Duneen the Spook Buster in “The Hand of Glory,” and Mike Mulaney the Card Dick in “Hot Ice.”
label: Description
content: <i>Super Magician Comics</i> was originally published in May of 1941 under the title <i>Super Magic Comics</i> before changing its name for the rest of its five-year run. <i>Super Magician Comics</i> ran in five volumes, with most of the issues featuring fictionalized adventures of the real-life magician, the Great Blackstone (Harry Blackstone, Sr.). Walter B. Gibson (pen name Maxwell Grant) was a friend of Blackstone’s and wrote the comics to be given away at his shows. The issues sold out at newsstands as well, helping Blackstone sell more tickets and increasing the popularity of the comic. Blackstone also starred in a radio drama written by Gibson, as well as the ensuing comic books <i>Master Magician Comics</i> and <i>Blackstone, the Magician Detective.</i>
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0086.097
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.097
label: accession number
content: 2013.0086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 26.035 cm