| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Washed Up |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Ad for three books that teach martial arts. |
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| Comic Story | The Mangler's Slaughter Clinic (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Mangler tries to operate on Woozy Winks, but Woozy's good luck charm prevents any injuries. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Chief Branner; The Mangler (villain, introduction); Dr. Slicer (villain, introduction); Knife McBlades (villain, introduction); Drip; Charlie |
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| Synopsis | Hearing "Japs" described as like "apes," Ma visits a traveling circus and starts punching a gorilla. She apologizes and says "ah shoulda know'd yo' was too clean-cut an' refiney t' be a Jap!" |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pappy Drip; Ma Drip |
| Notes | In previous issues, Pappy Drip is described as Dewey's grandfather (and Ma's father) but in this story he suddenly becomes Dewey's father and Ma's husband. |
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| Comic Story | The Trance-Call Fails (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Destiny; John Sykes; Mrs. John Sykes; Jeffers |
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| Comic Story | Corney Cobb, Apprentice Detective (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Flatfoot Burns; Corney Cobb |
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| Comic Story | Blackmail and Blood (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Manhunter investigates the shooting of Thornton Divine. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Thornton Divine [Jones]; John Bounty; Stella Bounty; Henry |
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| Text Story | Death at the Mike (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dick Mace is called in to examine the strange deaths of Aylesworth and Holmes. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Allison Aylesworth; Eric Holmes; Arthur Jenkins; Judge Reardon |
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| Comic Story | Stand by for Action (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A stage magician kidnaps Hustace, but the Human Bomb discovers that he is under external mental influences, so his prison sentence is commuted and he takes to charity work. |
| Credits | Script:? (see notes) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mustapho (villain, introduction, reforms) |
| Notes | The writer's credit for Gustavson has been replaced with ? (notes added by Craig Delich January 23, 2013, revised February 23, 2017). Jim Amash and Mike Kooiman, in the Quality Companion, verify that Gustavson wrote this feature through Police Comics (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #22, then picked up again with #37. The intervening writer is unknown for this story. |
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| Comic Story | Super Dog House (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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| Comic Story | Dipsy Dooble (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dipsey Dooble; Winthrop Boombershlag |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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