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| Publication | July 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Featuring | Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Pencils: Joe Simon | Inks: Joe Simon |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] |
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| Featuring | The Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Charles Nicholas |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; The Sylvanian Consul Secretary (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Though Blue Beetle is not explained as having superpowers until next issue, he may display them here for the first time when he defeats 20 mobsters in one fistfight, when previously he could take two or three mobsters at a time. |
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| Comic Story | The Giant Airplane Blimp (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Wing Turner |
| Credits | Pencils: George Tuska? [as Floyd Kelly] (signed) | Inks: George Tuska [as Floyd Kelly] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Wing Turner; the Nazis (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Crow from Space (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Rex Dexter |
| Credits | Script: Dick Briefer | Pencils: Dick Briefer | Inks: Dick Briefer |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rex Dexter; Jan (introduction); Yna (introduction); The Hunter (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Federal Reserve Robbery (8 pages) |
| Featuring | The Green Mask |
| Credits | Pencils: Walter Frehm | Inks: Walter Frehm |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Voss (villain, introduction); Lovensky (villain, introduction); Boris (villain, introduction); Hans (villain, introduction); un-named spies (villains, introduction) |
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| Featuring | Billy Bounce |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab | Letters: Fred Schwab |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Billy Bounce |
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| Comic Story | Demons of Doom (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Chen Chang |
| Credits | Pencils: Munson Paddock [as Cecilia Munson] (signed) | Inks: Munson Paddock [as Cecilia Munson] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chen Chang (villain); River Lily (villain) |
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| Text Story | Twentieth Century Death Ray (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: B. A. Martin (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | The Stuffed Fish Smugglers (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lt. Drake is assigned the task of capturing the men responsible for smuggling orientals into the United States. |
| Featuring | Lt. Drake of the Naval Intelligence |
| Credits | Script: Klaus Nordling [as F. Klaus] (signed) | Pencils: Klaus Nordling [as F. Klaus] (signed) | Inks: Klaus Nordling [as F. Klaus] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Lt. Drake; Inspector Stevens (cameo); gang of smugglers (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Strange Case of the Terror Castle Grave Robberies (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Doc sends some of his hoodlums into a cemetery looking for a disease-free body into which he plans to transplant a brain, thus allowing him to have the power of God to create life. |
| Featuring | The Moth |
| Credits | Pencils: Jim Mooney | Inks: Jim Mooney |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Moth; The Doc (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | This is the last appearance for this character, who is called "Moth Man" on the cover. The plot of this story just had to have been taken from Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein." NOTE: The strip carries the by-line of "Norman Kingsley", which may have been an editorial alteration of the by-line "Norton Kingsley", which was the pen-name of Chuck A. Winter, who drew The Lynx for Fox in 1941. The editors may have just stuck this by-line on the strip [not unusual in those days]. The Men of Mystery reprint ID's Pierce Rice with the art, but Rice only penciled the strip circa 1941, while Mooney did full art from 1940 into 1941. This information added by Craig Delich 2010-6-1. |
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| Featuring | Hemlock Shomes |
| Credits | Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schwab | Letters: Fred Schwab |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hemlock Shomes |
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| Comic Story | Attack in the South Atlantic (6 pages) |
| Featuring | D-13 |
| Credits | Script: Bob Powell | Pencils: Bob Powell | Inks: Bob Powell |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Susan Florenz (introduction); Rico (introduction); Diego (introduction); the Nazis (villains) |
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| Comic Story | Six Crates for Singapore (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Savage |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles A. Winter? | Inks: Charles A. Winter? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Savage |
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| Comic Story | Zombies of the Bayou (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Zanzibar |
| Credits | Pencils: George Tuska | Inks: George Tuska |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Zanzibar; The Zombie Master (villain, introduction) |
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