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| The Chic Carter story 'Veda the Cobra Woman' is lifted from Cornell Woolrich's 'Kiss of the Cobra' (first published Dime Detective May 1st 1935.) Veda is the name of the snake-lady in that tale too, and the whole of the last page - the bit about the camphor ice and mucilage, and the line "You have killed a god!" are all word-for-word Woolrich. Still, they do say, if you're going to steal, steal from the best! |
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| Publication | January 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset) |
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| They Called Him "Stay-at-Home-Sammy" -- but Now He Leads the Gang! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sammy convinces his dad to buy him a Schwinn bicycle. |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Sammy |
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| Comic Story | Dr. Kruger's Hospital Horror (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | While volunteering at the American Red Cross, Joan discovers that Dr. Kruger has poisoned the blood banks. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Joan Rogers; "Slugger" Dunn; Dr. Kruger (villain); Rudolf; Anton |
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| Comic Story | The Chikka Chipps Contract (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | #711 decides to protect the life of one of his inside informants who had testified against a local mob boss. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Crime | Characters: #711 [Daniel Dyce]; Lush Chikko (prisoner, informant); Big Boy Bern; Mike |
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| Synopsis | The Polecat twins try to stop Dewey from marrying Lulubelle. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip; Lulubelle; Paul Polecat |
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| Comic Story | Captain Gruber's Sky Wolves (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Eagle and Snap have an adventure in the jungle near Bathurst. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Eagle Evans; Snap Smith; Gruber; Andrews; Franz |
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| Comic Story | Veda the Cobra Woman (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Peter Kane's new step mother is a Hindu snake dancer with poison lips. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Peter Kane Jr.; Monahan; Peter Kane Sr.; Veda Kane (villain) |
| Notes | Story has similarities to the Cornell Woolrich story Kiss of the Cobra. |
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| Comic Story | Case of the Disembodied Hands (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | An unnamed man was cursed by an Indian prince and his hands began stealing. He couldn't stop them from stealing, and eventually cut them off. Eventually, Plas threw them into a furnace to set the man free. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Chubby Rankin (villain); The Man With the Stealing Hands; Tom |
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| Synopsis | Super Snooper tries out his new invention for catching crooks. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Super Snooper |
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| Comic Story | They Stole the Commissioner's Car! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Crooks steal the police commissioner's car and Steele chases after them. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Steele Kerrigan; Anne; Kelly |
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| Comic Story | Grud, Fifth Columnist (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Mouthpiece hunts down Grud and his gang after they kill a cop. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Grud (villain); Clancy; Otto |
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| Text Story | Blood Will Tell (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dick tells how he used psychology to catch a murderer. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace; Dr. Idwel Chivers; Masterson; Cranston; Tully Brindell; Murchison; Davis |
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| Comic Story | The Autogiro Spies (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Senator Knight and Sandra discover that Don is being held in his apartment by enemy spies for the State Department papers they believe he has or has access to. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Don Borden; Senator Knight; Otto (villain, foreign agent); Max (villain, foreign agent); Karl (villain, foreign agent) |
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| Comic Story | Defeating the Drought (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Burp the Twerp has to help farmer's suffering from a drought. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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| Synopsis | Impatient with Roy's frequent disappearances, Jean nearly sees his face when he changes into the Human Bomb to battle the Black Vanguards, a Nazi group, that is brought down, not by the use of 27-QRX, but a standalone chemical. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Jean Adams [formerly Jean Caldwell]; The Black Vanguards (villains, introduction for all) |
| 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.
Letters credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son. |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Jim Prentice |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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