| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Samar (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Spin Shaw (inset) |
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| Comic Story | School of Crime (9 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; un-named librarian; Professor Coffin Nale (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | According to Lee Boyette in Alter Ego #90, Fran Matera sneaks his initials into panels on pages 5 and 7. According to Jim Amash, in the Quality Companion, and who had done an interview with Matera, he states this art is by Reed Crandall. |
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| Comic Story | The 100-Mile Water Race (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Comic Story | The Car-Wrecking Ghost (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zero uses a rather unique way of defeating the giant ghost of Joe Ricks: merely talking to him. By repeating the word "evil" ("live" spelled backwards, the one thing a ghost cannot do), Zero reduces the ghost in size, and, from there, Rucks continues to shrink with every word uttered. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Joe Rucks (villain, a ghost, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Diamonds and Dastards (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar; Hugo (first appearance; villain; death); Hugo's partner (first appearance; villain; death) |
| Notes | Signed MDE in last panel as mentioned in Alter Ego #75. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Phantom Fur Thieves (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Mr. Woods (first appearance); Johnny Woods (first appearance); Geller and the Night Riders (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | Flat Foot Floogie Wins (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | Ribbons of Death (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Capt. Bruce Blackburn; Otto (first appearance; villain); Carl (first appearance; villain); Fritz (first appearance; villain); Sonya (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Factory Girls and Fifth Columnists (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | USA, dressed in her full garb, goes to work alongside civilian women in a bomb factory, and manages to uncover a spy working there: her own supervisor, Mrs. Cragg! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: USA; Mrs. Cragg (villain, introduction); un-named spies (villains, introduction for all) |
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| Comic Story | The American Freedom Club (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty]; Dutch (villain, spy, introduction); unnamed spy (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Text Story | The Death That Crawled (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Comic Story | The Coming of the Fargo Kid (4 pages) |
| Content | Characters: The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner] (first appearance); A "town boss" (first appearance; villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Nazis Come to South Pango (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dusty Dane; Captain Hardt (first appearance; villain; death); other Nazis (first appearance; villains; all die) |
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| Comic Story | The Plans of Peril (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Rex Smith] |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Herman (first appearance; villain); Von (first appearance; villain); other Nazis (first appearance; some die) |
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