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| Phantom Lady story has a cute ending. |
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| Publication | March 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt] |
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| Synopsis | Plas and Woozy go to a haunted mansion to solve a murder mystery. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Director Steinmetz (dies); Gar Crochett; Dave (dies); Mrs. Dave; Stanley Vane |
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| Comic Story | Red-Haired Kate (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Manhunter runs into a killer vamp who carries a whip. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Red Haired Kate (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Manhunter appears in the story without a mask and the shorts he wore in #15-16 are oddly not present. |
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| Synopsis | While his fellow soldiers disguise themselves as trees and bushes, Dewey puts on a giant woodpecker costume as camouflage. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Dewey Drip; Sergeant; General; Kelly |
| Notes | Script credit changed to Bernard Dibble ? by D. Wilt 2018-5-19. Based on internal evidence, Dibble seems to have written much of his comic strip and comic book work. |
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| Comic Story | Have You Seen Him? (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Destiny, relaxing in his comfortable and spacious home, suddenly is put upon by the killer of 711, Oscar Jones. When he attempts to enter his "trance" state and disappear, he discovers that he has remained in place. Laying in wait for Destiny, Jones grazes Destiny with a bullet, then escapes to go on a killing spree. In the end, Jones is captured and 711 is avenged. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Destiny; Oscar Jones (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Black Widow (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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| Comic Story | The Orphans (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt] |
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| Comic Story | Mystery of the Black Cat! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sandra is reading Edgar Allan Poe's classic "Black Cat" to some dinner guests when the cry of a cat is heard outside, and when one of the guests investigates, he is killed and lies on the ground with claw marks on his face. Phantom Lady discovers that two thugs, hired by the Nazis, were attempting to plant a bomb in Senator Knight's home. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Knight; Don Borden; Carl (death); two un-named thugs (villains) |
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| Comic Story | Chic Carter and the Voice from the Grave! (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Text Story | The Madman (1.8 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | When newspapermen Olson and Larson get a picture of Roy Lincoln donning the uniform of the Human Bomb, Hustace decides to throw the newsmen off the trail by pretending he is the Human Bomb and destroying property with his powers. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Hustace Throckmorton; Olaf Olson (newspaperman); Lars Larson (newspaperman) |
| Notes | Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs. |
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