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| Publication | December 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | A previous indexer credited the artwork to Ogden Whitney, but this looks more like Creig Flessel's work. |
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| Featuring | Joe Palooka; Skyman |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe Palooka; Skyman; Marvelo (inset); Face (inset); Charlie Chan (inset) |
| Notes | A previous indexer credited the artwork to Ogden Whitney, but this looks more like Creig Flessel's work. |
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| Illustration | Merry Christmas! (1 page) |
| Content | Characters: Joe Palooka; Charlie Chan; The Skyman; Rocky Ryan; Marvelo and Zee; The Face; Jigger Jones; Dixie Dugan; Spt-Chief' Mike |
| Notes | Ten vignettes of the main characters who appear regularly, arrayed around a holly wreath, with the message, "Merry Christmas!" All images taken from panels drawn by their regular artists. |
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| Comic Story | Norgo's Freeze Weapon (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Norgo blankets parts of the United States with extreme cold and then threatens to do the same to the entire country if the U.S. does not surrender to him. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Fawn Carroll; Allan Turner [Skyman]; Norgo |
| Notes | Ogden Whitney signed the fifth panel of story page 11. |
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| Comic Story | Reunion with Knobby (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Joe Palooka |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Steve; Tony; Weidebottom; Mr. Stookey; Buddy Peters |
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| Text Story | Joe Palooka's Christmas Carol (1.7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe and Knobby, on their way home for Christmas, stop for the night at a tavern. Overhearing a conversation between a doctor and the tavern proprietor about a down on their luck mother and child, Joe and Knobby decide to help bring the Christmas spirit to the mother and child. |
| Featuring | Joe Palooka |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Mrs. Brady; Tom Brady |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Robot Killer (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tom Kerry investigates a robot that is robbing banks. |
| Featuring | Tom Kerry District Attorney |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Tom Kerry |
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| Comic Story | The Hypnotist (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A hypnotist takes control of a bomber squadron and Jeff investigates the threat to U.S. security. |
| Featuring | Spy-Chief |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Spy-Chief [Jeff Cardiff]; "Ace" Gordon; Jack Condon; The Hypnotist |
| Notes | Mart Bailey signed the seventh panel of story page 6. |
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| Synopsis | Betty is distressed after her uncle tells her that Santa Claus doesn't exist; Jibby and Jane dress up as Santa to prove him wrong. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Betty; Jibby Jones; Jane; Uncle Grump |
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| Featuring | Movieland Sketches |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Ann Sheridan; Errol Flynn; Don Ameche |
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| Comic Story | The Kidnapping of David Frome, Part 3 (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Charlie Chan |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Kirk Barrow; Carla; Biena; Col. Bamba; Borrico; General Jura; Charlie Chan; David Frome |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Synopsis | Mike attacks Santa Claus believing Santa to be a robber. |
| Featuring | Mike the Mascot |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mike |
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| Comic Story | Mystery in Metalanim (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doe receives a message that her father has disappeared while studying the architecture of a partially submerged city and Rocky offers to travel with her to discover what happened. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Doe Ames; Rocky Ryan; Mr. Jonson; Mr. Ames |
| Notes | Ogden Whitney signed the fifth panel of story page 6. |
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| Featuring | Kid Stuff |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Buckwheat |
| Notes | Seven unrelated gag panels. |
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| Featuring | Dixie Dugan |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Imogene; John; Dixie Dugan |
| Notes | The top tier of each page is "Good Deed Dotty", by the same creators. |
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| Comic Story | The Chilean Drug Smugglers (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Marvelo |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Marvelo; Zee; Captain Esperol |
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| Comic Story | Too Much Santa Claus (1 page) |
| Synopsis | George wears a Santa Claus suit home and receives a lot of negative attention. |
| Featuring | The Bungle Family |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: George Bungle |
| Notes | The top tier is a strip entitled "Testimonials", by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Mystery of the Missing Shoes (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Tony Trent [The Face]; Ted Bolder; O'Rourke |
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| Featuring | Let's Play Games |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for various mail order items from Johnson Smith & Company. |
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