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| Interesting issue with two stories, Dr. Occult and Radio Squad, by a Pre-Superman Siegel and Schuster. Also "Whit" Whitney Ellsworth, the movie liason between DC and the movies including the Batman and Superman serials, and the Superman TV series. He was also an editor, writer, and artist for DC and has a story in this issue. |
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| Publication | November 1936 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Synopsis | Kid getting mule to kick a field goal. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Company |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Featuring | Alger's Variety Show |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Resbian Affair, Part 2 (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sandra attempts to rescue a fellow Gavonian spy from prison. |
| Featuring | Sandra of the Secret Service |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Detective-mystery | Characters: Sandra; Lorenz |
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| Comic Story | Prince of Patrania, Part 13 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Spike Spalding |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Spike Spalding; Pincus; The Sailor |
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| Comic Story | Island Adventure, Part 5 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Woozy Watts |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Woozy Watts |
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| Comic Story | Koth and the Seven, Part 3 (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Searching for a magical belt inside an Egyptian pyramid, Occult and Zator are attacked by a giant wielding a scimitar, but Occult kills him. They find the magic belt, but when Koth learns of this he is filled with rage and orders their death within two minutes. |
| Featuring | Dr. Occult |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy | Characters: Doctor Occult; Zator; the Seven; Koth (villain) |
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| Comic Story | In the Wake of the Wander [Part 13] (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Filson escapes and swims to the nearby beach. The native Kango uses Filson's own blow gun to kill him with a poison dart, and so the mystery of "The Death That Leaves No Mark" is finally solved. |
| Featuring | Captain Grim |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Captain Grim; Filson (villain); Kango |
| Notes | Script was formerly credited to "Tom Cooper [as Mac Fergus]", but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Cooper was a writer. |
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| Comic Story | Episode 14 (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | De Bracey's castle is under siege and the gate is breached by the Black Knight. They battle and the Knight is victorious. Ivanhoe and Rebecca become aware that the castle is burning, when the Templar bursts in and abducts her. |
| Featuring | Ivanhoe |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: De Bracey; Ivanhoe; The Black Knight; Locksley; Cedric; Bois-Gilbert; Rebecca; the Templar |
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| Synopsis | Pep is smitten with the Dean's daughter, which distracts him on the football field. |
| Featuring | Pep Morgan |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Pep Morgan; the Dean's daughter; Doug; Benny; Tubs Miller |
| Notes | Script was formerly credited to Creig Flessel, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Flessel was a writer on this strip. |
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| Featuring | Fun Club |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Gold Gulch, Part 2 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Pelion and Ossa |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Pelion; Ossa |
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| Comic Story | The Bedouin Adventure, Part 14 (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wing and Lynn are recaptured by the Arabs led by Ali Ben Saad. Before their planned fate can be put in motion a warning comes that the sentry has spied thousands of Legionnaires marching on the camp. |
| Featuring | Wing Brady |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Wing Brady; Ali Ben Saad (villain); Lynn Harding; Lieutenant Canfield |
| Notes | Script was formerly credited to Tom Hickey, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Hickey was a writer. |
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| Comic Story | Fang Gow of China [Part 15] (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Barry and Le Grand are trapped underground by Fang Gow, but when part of Paris is blown up they escape. Barry takes a gun from a fallen guard and confronts Fang Gow, who pulls a gun from his sleeve. But Barry is faster and the villain falls. |
| Featuring | Barry O'Neill and Fang Gow of China |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Crime | Characters: Barry O'Neil; Fang Gow; Le Grand |
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| Featuring | Thrilling True Stories |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | In the Wilderness, Part 3 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | The Bradley Boys |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Tom Bradley; Jack Bradley |
| Notes | Script was formerly credited to Creig Flessel, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Flessel was a writer on this strip. |
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| Comic Story | Episode 5 (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Keeping his tryst with the three musketeers for successive duels, D'Artagnan is waylaid by five of the Cardinal's private Guard. He and the other three fight and drive them off. The King is pleased to hear of this and asks to see these men to congratulate them on their prowess. |
| Featuring | The Three Musketeers |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: D'Artagnan; Athos; Porthos; Aramis; De Treville; Captain Jussac; The King |
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| Featuring | Touchdown! Pigskin Puns |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Brad Hardy |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Brad Hardy; Prince Kardos; Helgar |
| Notes | Script was formerly credited to Tom Hickey, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Hickey was a writer. |
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| Featuring | Just Suppose |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Erikson; Filui Orsene |
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| Comic Story | Captain Hale, Gun-Runner, Part 2 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Midshipman Dewey |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Dewey; Captain Hale; Dorgan; Blackbirder; Captain Smith |
| Notes | Script was formerly credited to Tom Cooper, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Cooper was a writer. |
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| Comic Story | Alaskan Adventure, Part 1 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Bob Merritt |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Bob Merritt; Red; Shorty; Buzz; Lefty |
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| Comic Story | People of the Red Planet, Part 1 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Mark Marson of the Interpanetary Police |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Mark Marson (introduction); Monty Montague; Sarno; Hillary's daughter; Dorais; Captain Waldo |
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| Comic Story | The Half-Breed, Part 5 (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Buckskin Jim is among a group building a settlement in a lush valley. Riding out to shoot a buffalo for meat, Jim meets two Indian braves who take him back to their camp. The chief takes a liking to Jim and inducts him into the tribe. |
| Featuring | Buckskin Jim |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: Buckskin Jim; Pete; Little Wolf |
| Notes | Script was formerly credited to Tom Cooper, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Cooper was a writer. |
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| Featuring | Talk About Talkies |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | Linda is kidnapped and a ransom note delivered to her guardian with the warning noy to contact the authorities. Ned decides to call in the F.B.I. |
| Featuring | Little Linda |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Children | Characters: Linda Silas Flint; Ned |
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| Synopsis | Bobby and Binks gaze into the magic crystal and see the adventure of Darius, King of Persia, invading Athens in 490 B.C. |
| Featuring | The Magic Crystal of History |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Bobby; Binks |
| Notes | Script previously credited to Fleming on no known evidence. |
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| Comic Story | Damsel in Distress, Part 12 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Woods |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: Jack Woods; Dolores; Don Miguel; Pancho Villa (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Hold-Up, Part 7 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Along the Main Line |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Jake; Ed; Slick Carter; Malverne; Dawkins |
| Notes | Script was formerly credited to Tom Cooper, but Keith Chandler has found no information to support the idea that Cooper was a writer. |
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| Synopsis | Climbing down into a rock crevice in an attempt to save Betty, Don, Queen Zira and Betty herself are swept down a swift running stream. They emerge in a strange land, which the queen says must be that ruled by her cousin Laswan. |
| Featuring | Don Drake on the Planet Saro |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sword And Sorcery | Characters: Don Drake; Queen Zira; Betty; Laswan (villain); Krenon (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Episode 4 (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Pirate Gold |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Captain Dennis; Jeff Roberts; Pedro |
| Notes | Elven was previously suggested as possible scriptwriter, but the Who's Who, in combination with a long piece on the artist in Alter Ego #162 (January 2020), seems to refute this. |
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| Comic Story | Hunting (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Hubert |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hubert |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Synopsis | Sandy is masquerading as the Tiger to save Doris Bailey, but is outed by Myrna. When the Tiger has Sandy in a huge jar filling up with water, Myrna saves him by firing at the jar and breaking it. She explains that the Tiger is her father, and she wanted him put into psychiatric care, not prison. |
| Featuring | Calling All Cars |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sandy Kean; Doris Bailey; The Purple Tiger; Myrna |
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| Featuring | Sam the Porter |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Featuring | New Comics |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | Big Prizes |
| Featuring | The Crowell Publishing Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | Factory to You (1 page) |
| Featuring | Remington Rand |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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