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| "Buddha" isn't signed, but it looks like the work of 26-year-old Bob Fujitani, not 20-year-old Joe Kubert. (It's hard to believe that Fuje will be 100 this year.) But lines like 'slant-eyed Japolas' are still deplorable. |
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| Pages 39 and 4O are out of sequence.
cheers! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | May-June 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Title from the text story. |
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| Cover | Captain Freedom's Dangerous Double |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie] |
| Notes | Title from the text story. |
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| Comic Story | Hero's Boots (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Wilmer Weems |
| Notes | A previous indexer gave art credits to 'Rudy Palais ?', but this is not his style at all. |
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| Comic Story | The Laughter That Kills (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Japanese develop a type of gas that causes Allied forces to laugh uncontrollably, thus making them ripe for conquering. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Shock Gibson [Private Robert Charles Gibson]; The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Pencil and ink credits from Don Mangus (June 8, 2006). Characters, reprint info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-18-08. |
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| Comic Story | The Halls of Montezuma (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Blonde Bomber [Honey Blake]; Jimmy Slapso; Diego; Great Limbriago; Cortez |
| Notes | The "Blonde Bomber" feature regularly appears in Green Hornet Comics (Harvey, 1942 Series). It is now starting a short run in Speed Comics too. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Biff Bannon; Gerty |
| Notes | This is the final appearance of the "Biff Bannon" feature.
The feature logo for this story reads "Biff Bannon's Hurricane" |
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| Text Story | Captain Freedom's Dangerous Double (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Freedom |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie] |
| Notes | Supertitled: The Story Behind the Cover. |
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| Notes | Sequence added by Jim (GCD error list, 2004-05-15) |
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| Comic Story | Buddha Was a Big Boy! (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Buddha |
| Notes | Pencils credit from the Pure Imagination reprint.
Keith Chandler : This looks to be Kubert on both pencils and inks. |
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| Comic Story | The Tale of the King of Swing (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Johnnie Upbeat |
| Notes | Possibly based on Benny Goodman?
Art credits from reprint. Keith Chandler ; These had Powell only as possible inker, but this certainly looks like Powell inks. |
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| Notes | Sequence added by Jim (GCD error list, 2004-05-15) |
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