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| Ever notice how, back then, so many character names were either puns (Lala Palooza, Mickey Finn) or adjectives (Blimpy, Perky, Rusty)? Not a Fred or Bill in the bunch. |
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| Publication | June 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly except December and June |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane] |
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| Comic Story | The Hyena (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | When the dim-witted Docker was beaten by his boss with a blow by a gun to his face, he finds it has paralyzed a facial nerve and frozen his grinning face similar to that of a hyena. He first kills his tormentors, then attempts to seek help from a doctor. But Doll Man intervenes and the villain falls upon a scalpel and dies. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Midge [Martha Roberts]; Professor Roberts; The Hyena [Docker] (villain, introduction, death); Ice Greeg and his gang (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Originally credited to Al Bryant, but tilting figures with long upper body and awkward way of standing and walking, as on rubber legs, some wild eyes, and also broad shoulders and narrow head on stretched neck are all pointing to Zolnerowich. He is credited on both pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but inking varies, so most probably not by him. |
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| Comic Story | Chamber of Genius (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky |
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| Comic Story | Poison Ivy, M. D. (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; Mr. O'Toole (first appearane); Mrs. Litmus O'Toole (first appearane) |
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| Comic Story | Dressed To Kill (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A hood squirts acid from a flower on his lapel |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Dressy Moran (first appearance; villain) |
| Notes | Bache is credited on pencils for 1946 on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but uncartain credit here. All the short figures look like Quackenbush. |
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| Synopsis | Vincent "donates" a lot of Lala's clothing to a "European right here in town!" Lala isn't pleased to learn a French burlesque dancer was the recipient of Vincent's "charity." |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza |
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| Synopsis | Vince's attempt to do a good deed backfires. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; McMayem; Lala Palooza |
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| Synopsis | Vincent tries to put Lala in a good mood so she'll loan him some money. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | Spring Housecleaning (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy; Workman's Guild of the Forest Primeval (first appearance; fairies) |
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| Comic Story | Crime Corporation (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A new plane is worth stealing. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Creedon (first appearance; villain; death); Kabuli (first appearance; villain; death); other gangsters (first appearance; villains; all die) |
| Notes | So similar art to the previous in this feature that it could be Quackenbush. He is credited on pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Uncertain inking when compared with his signed stories. |
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| Text Story | Pearls Before Swine (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt? | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mickey Finn; Philip Finn; Florrie Finn |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Synopsis | Butch brings Boss Bangs a prehistoric flying lizard's egg as a circus attraction. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Synopsis | Butch organises the circus clowns to picket Boss Bangs. Bangs demotes Butch to ape-keeper, so Butch organises the apes to carry picket signs. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Comic Story | Lorgo, the Mysterious Giant (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ryan and the brigade is in the lair of Lorgo, the mysterious giant. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; Lorgo (villain, introduction); The Boss (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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