| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Featuring | Chief Wahoo; Napoleon |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Chief Wahoo; Dollar Bill; Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Nelda |
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| Cartoon | US Moderns (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Squeaky |
| Notes | Six daily gag cartoons, one of which features a boy named Squeaky. |
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| Synopsis | Scorchy getting ready to take off against the air raid. |
| Featuring | Let's Get into a Huddle |
| Credits | Pencils:? (Christman portrait) | Inks:? (Christman portrait) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Non-fiction; Aviation | Characters: Bert Christman; Scorchy Smith |
| Notes | Most of this issue's Let's Get into a Huddle is devoted to the death of former Scorchy Smith artist Bert Christman after a combat mission against the Japanese over Rangoon, Burma, as a member of the Flying Tigers. Accounts his comic career and eventually his combat missions leading to his death.
Includes a reprints of one of Christman's Scorchy Smith strips and a drawn portrait of the artist (uncredited, perhaps by Christman?). Gives on sale information for Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern, 1940 series) #14 and the next issue of Famous Funnies. |
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| Cartoon | A Bad Injun! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A brief biography of Apache Native American Geronimo. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Chief Geronimo |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fearless Flint [Jack Bradley]; Janson Brown |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Dr. Chrono; Pedro; Roy Culver |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Andre |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy | Characters: Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Atom; Bettie |
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| Comic Story | Sabinus and Epponina (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: Sabinus; Epponina |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Tutsi; General Chung-Ying |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; Bess; Nick the Finger |
| Notes | Script was previously credited to R. B. Fuller, but William McCleery was the author from its beginning in 1935 to 1961. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Lt. Billy Hill; Tommy |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Roy Powers; Chunky |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Irma; Rico; Corrine; Faro |
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| Text Story | Of Proven Mettle (2 pages) |
| Credits | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Patrolman Jack Monahan; Tommy |
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| Comic Story | Kicking th' Gong Around! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle; Yung'un |
| Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - Kicking th' Gong Around!
#2 - Snap Judgment!
#3 - From Drier to Flyer!
#4 - Pipe the Pig! |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Chief Wahoo; Steve Roper; Pamela Barclay; Major Barclay |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Uncle Elby; Napoleon |
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