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| What's going on here on the cover looks more like dancing than fighting!
Cheers! |
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| Publication | June 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Dick Cole Battles His Double |
| Featuring | Dick Cole |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed) | Inks: Bill Everett [as Everett] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dick Cole; Simba Karno |
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| Featuring | Ye Editors' Page |
| Credits | Script: The Editors | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | the inside-front cover |
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| Comic Story | Dick Cole Battles His Double (11 pages) |
| Featuring | Dick Cole |
| Credits | Script: Bob Davis | Pencils: Bob Davis | Inks: Bob Davis |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dick Cole (origin retold); Simba Karno (villain, introduction); Dr. Karno (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Title taken from the cover.
The story is complete, but the background story continues to the next issue with a different title. |
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| Comic Story | Murder in the Mountains (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sub-Zero is taking a break at Mt. Reed from crime fighting and spots a hiker falling from a mountain. Upon investigation, he notes that the hiker's rope had been doctored to break and suspects a man named Ragin. After a tussel, Sub-Zero is knocked out, then sets out after Ragin. While doing so, Sub-Zero fractures his leg but manages to inscribe a message on stone that he hopes will be picked up, read, and result in a posse finding him and Ragin. Ragin, loaded with dynamite, falls to his death, knocking Sub-Zero and the posse off a mountain, but are saved by a mysterious wind (The Twister). |
| Featuring | Sub-Zero |
| Credits | Script: Ray Gill? | Pencils: John Daly | Inks: John Daly |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Sub-Zero Man; Harkness (introduction); Ruth (hiker, introduction); Harkness (introduction); The Twister [Bob Sanders] (cameo); Ragin (villain, nephew of Harkness, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Yellow Creek Dam (6 pages) |
| Featuring | White Rider and Super Horse |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: The White Rider; Super-Horse; Chief Little Buck (introduction); V: Morgan (villain, introduction); Morgan's gang (villains, introduction for all) |
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| Text Story | Ghost Ship (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Sergeant Spook |
| Credits | Script: Ray Gill | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sgt. Spook |
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| Comic Story | The Revenge of Rock Rook (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Sergeant Spook |
| Credits | Script: Malcolm Kildale | Pencils: Malcolm Kildale | Inks: Malcolm Kildale |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sergeant Spook; Rock Rook (villain, a ghost, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | Vincennes and Victory (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Old Cap Hawkins Tales |
| Credits | Script: Henry Kiefer | Pencils: Henry Kiefer | Inks: Henry Kiefer |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Old Cap Hawkins |
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| Featuring | Krisko and Jasper |
| Credits | Script: Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren] | Pencils: Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren] | Inks: Jack Warren [as Jack A. Warren] |
| Content | Characters: V: Mr. Gravedigger |
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| Comic Story | Rescue by Aero Kite (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Edison Bell |
| Credits | Pencils: Harry Ramsey |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Edison Bell |
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| Comic Story | U-Boat Menace (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Phantom Sub |
| Credits | Script: Bill O'Connor | Pencils: Ben Flinton | Inks: Leonard Sansone |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Phantom Sub; The Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Story title taken from the last issue's blurb. |
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| Comic Story | The Aerial Saboteur (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | At a Canadian R.A.F. air base, Blue Bolt watches his kid brother's first solo flight and sees the plane cracking up. When Kip's chute doesn't open, Blue Bolt springs to the rescue. Kip later discovers a man named Miller sabotaging the planes, and is knocked out. Later, the base commander is kidnapped by Miller when the Major discovers the sabotage and it is Blue Bolt to the rescue again, over-taking the airplane and causing Miller to fall to his death. But when the plane itself streaks to the earth out of control, a mysterious wind (The Twister) comes along and brings the plane down safely. |
| Featuring | Blue Bolt |
| Credits | Script: Ray Gill? | Pencils: Alan Mandel? | Inks: Alan Mandel? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Bolt [Fred Parrish]; Kip Parrish (Fred's brother); unnamed Major (base commander, introduction); The Twister [Bob Sanders] (cameo); Miller (villain, saboteur, introduction, death) |
| Notes | As of this story, Kip still does not know that Blue Bolt is his brother. |
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| Comic Story | Introducing the Twister (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | According to Greek mythology, Odysseus visited Aeolia, seeking out Aeolus to provide favorable winds for his ship. His wish was granted, but Aeolus also gave Odysseus a sealed bag of unfavorable winds and was told not to open it....but his crew did, and the winds blew his ship back to Aeolia. Aeolus was furious and demanded that Odysseus tracked down and capture the bad winds or reap the consequences...but he never did. The bad winds one day years later hit a red school house in Windy Gap and a student, Bob Sanders, was taken up in it and given strange powers, which he used as The Twister. |
| Featuring | The Twister |
| Credits | Script: Ray Gill | Pencils: Paul Gustavson | Inks: Paul Gustavson | Letters: Paul Gustavson |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Twister [Bob Sanders](origin in flashback, introduction); Odysseus (introduction); Aeolus (god of the winds, introduction); Pete Sanders (introduction, cameo in flashback, death); Mrs. Pete Sanders (introduction, cameo in flashback, death); unnamed Policeman (introduction); Tony the Tornado (villain, introduction); Spike (villain, introduction); unnamed crooks (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | All Paul Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul's son.
The Twister/Bob Sanders is considered to be a descendant of Odysseus.
At the end of the story, Twister announces to the crooks that he has a date with the notorious Tony the Tornado, a blurb to indicate the topic of the story next issue. |
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| Publisher advertisement | It's a Wow! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | house ad for Target Comics |
| Featuring | The Target |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob Wood (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
| Notes | the inside-back cover |
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