| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); Doc Mortimer Wackey (inset); Gabby (a monkey) (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Zimmerman's Spy Ring (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ray and Bud break up a Mexican spy ring. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Chita; Zimmerman (villain); Zimmerman's spy ring (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Liquifying Ray (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Midnight and Gabby face a gang of crooks with an amazing ray weapon that can melt anything in Big City. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a talking monkey) |
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| Comic Story | The Stenographer's Job (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Comic Story | Tiny Gano's Insurance Racket (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Jester chases a pair of crooks back to the lair of criminal mastermind Tiny Gano and puts them all to rout. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Tiny Gano (introduction); Shorty (crook); Muggins (crook) |
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| Synopsis | An invisible airplane based in a dirigible is used to kidnap the new Defense Chief, Roy Mason. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Kent Thurston; unnamed Nazis; Roy Mason |
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| Synopsis | Walking through the park, Tiny spots his two pals sitting on a bridge with another midget between them. His anger subsides when it is revealed that this a dummy for use in the act. But none of them know there is a stolen necklace hidden in the wooden head. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Warren; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill]; Madame Zagonga (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Rescue of Madame Doom (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X tracks down stolen navy charts as two gangs of spies vie for their possession. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Captain Vidman (introduction); Madame Doom (villain) |
| Notes | Williams is credited on drawing this feature.
Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Dick French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43). |
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| Synopsis | Wun CLoo ignores crimes being committed because it is his day off. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo, the Defective Detective |
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| Comic Story | The Modern Train Robbers (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wildire takes on a gang of train robbers, after a gold shipment that's riding on the same train as she and her parents. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wildfire; Mutt Morgan and his gang; Mr and Mrs Martin |
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| Synopsis | A parachutist tries to assassinate the president. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Captain Kurt (villain, introduction, dies); Nita; Dr. Goth; Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| Text Story | The City of Death (1.5 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian; Sir John Elton-Blake |
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| Comic Story | The Squid Strikes (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rookie's mother sends him out to get a mackeral for supper, and he discovers a protection racket in operation on the docks. Knocked out and taken aboard the crooks' boat, fish merchant Gus brings a codfish as a present to The Squid and praises Rookie's culinary skill. Rookie cuts open the fish and finds a hidden gun, and with the aid of Gus and a lot of fresh fish, brings the gang to justice. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; The Squid (Intro; not the Spirit villain); Gus Poppalopalous |
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| Synopsis | "Slip" Talone thinks he has captured Bozo, but the robot's steel hard body and flying powers make short work of the gang. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; "Slip" Talone (introduction) |
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