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| Comment from Richard Kahl: The "Defender" story by Jack Cole is a blatant steal of the third Avenger pulp novel "The Sky Walker" which had a newsstand date of November 1939. Rocket # 2 has a newsstand date of April 1940. The Avenger was published by Street & Smith, while Rocket was published by Hillman. Other than the plagiarism, it is a very nice example of Jack Cole's early style. The Defender story in Rocket # 3, is not by Cole and is lacking all the elements of the "Avenger" that were in # 2. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Featuring | Rocket Riley |
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| Comic Story | The Runaway Rocket: Part 2 (16 pages) |
| Featuring | Rocket Riley |
| Content | Characters: The Zarnos (Villain; Intro); Devalo (Villain; Intro); Kurt Von Stangle (Villain); Xenox (Intro); Ladana (Intro) |
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| Comic Story | Pearls of Death (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Hurricane Hart |
| Content | Characters: Kanu (Intro; Death); a governor and his daughter (Intro); Schultz (Villain; Intro) |
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| Comic Story | Within the Law (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Phantom Ranger |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jed Sawyer (Villain; Intro); Dad Hawkins (Intro) |
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| Comic Story | The Opium Smugglers (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Red Roberts |
| Content | Characters: Scarface Marone (Villain; Intro; Death); Blackie Skull (Villain; Intro); Bones Wilson (Villain; Intro); Stumpy Jake (Villain; Intro); Chin Lee (Intro); Gwen Blake (Intro); Captain Blake (Intro) |
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| Comic Story | Pursuit of the Steel Shark (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Steel Shark |
| Content | Characters: Steel Shark (Villain); Graffe (Villain; Intro); Barks (Villain; Intro); Dare (Intro); Griffin (Intro) |
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| Comic Story | Wolf In the Fold (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Buzzard Barnes |
| Content | Characters: General Larrot (Intro); Manard (Villain); Otto (Villain; Intro; Death?); Germans (Villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Man with a Thousand Faces (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Defender |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Defender [Bob Larson] (Intro; Origin); Lucky (Intro); J. Samuel Drew (Intro); John Ward (Intro; Death); Frank Vonn (Villain; Intro; Death) |
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| Text Story | Handcuffed to Death (1 page) |
| Featuring | Spike Williamson and His Sky Fighters |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Spike Williamson (Intro); Sky Fighters (Intro) |
| Notes | inside back cover |
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