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| Any chance of getting this rescanned? The interior pages are pretty much blurred out. |
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| Agreed. And could someone please upload the two missing issues, #3 and #6? |
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| That second Jack Woods story isn't "Damsel in Distress, Part 2"; it's "Pancho Villa, Part 5". |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1935 | Price: 0.10 USD; 0.25 CAD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Damsel in Distress, Part 1 |
| Synopsis | Jack rescues a beautiful woman being held hostage by two men in an isolated shack. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jack Woods |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Synopsis | A desperate man steals Jim's food. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ramblin' Jim; Sheriff Smith |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Gavonian Affair, Part 5 |
| Synopsis | Sandra has been kidnapped by Gavonian conspirators and is pursued in a second car by a pair of Secret Agents. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sandra; Lothar |
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| Comic Story | Barber Pole |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pincus |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Comic Story | Prince of Patrania, Part 3 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Spike Spalding; King Philip of Patrania |
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| Comic Story | Women Riders of the Winged Death (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Don Drake; Betty; Zastia |
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| Comic Story | In the Wake of the Wander [Part 3] (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Captain Grim |
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| Comic Story | In Far Off China Sits Fang Gow (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Barry O'Neill; Le Grand; Fang Gow (Villain) |
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| Comic Story | Pipes |
| Synopsis | Sonny gets ill smoking a pipe, so transfers to a bubble-blowing version. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sonny |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless story |
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| Comic Story | On the Road, Part 4 |
| Synopsis | Linda takes Buddy to a police station. In checking, the police find that Buddy's uncle Wilbur Stone has shot himself and left all his money to Buddy. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Little Linda; Buddy; Officer Kelly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Lefty; Slimsy; Dizzy |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Leonardo Da Vinci |
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| Text Story | Shavetail (1.45 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (see notes) | Inks:? (see notes) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Continues on pages 14 and 20.
The artist signs but the signature is difficult to read - "T E. Sh...". |
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| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photograph) | Inks:?;? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Oswald |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless story |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Indian Ambush, Part 5 |
| Synopsis | The rock thrown by Jim to rouse the sleeping guard actually knocks out an attacking Indian. The wagon train is roused and drives off the attack, but Mary Halliday is missing. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Buckskin Jim; Trapper Pete; Mary Halliday |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Text Story | The Magdalena Kid (1.33 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | The Haunted House, Part 1 |
| Synopsis | Slim inherits a house from a relative, and despite everyone warning him that it's haunted, he goes anyway, only to be accosted by various ghoulish-looking creatures. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Slim Pickins (introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Midsummer Day's Dream |
| Synopsis | The Tumblebug Brothers create the illusion of a giant cat. |
| Featuring | The Tumblebug Brothers |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Tumblebug Brothers |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless story |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mr. Plotz |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Professor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Mystery Plane, Part 1 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Bob Merritt (introduction) |
| Notes | Based on the Bill Barnes stories that appeared in Bill Barnes Air Adventurer (Street and Smith, 1934 series) pulp magazine which were written by Wheeler-Nicholson. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Fido; Joe |
| Notes | Five one-panel gags. |
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| Comic Story | Episode 1 |
| Content | Genre: Historical |
| Notes | Adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. May be rearranged panels from the 1925 Wheeler-Nicholson Syndicated version. |
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| Comic Story | The Evil Eye |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Fanny |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Charley Fish |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Ed; Jake |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Activity | The Top Cross-Word Puzzle |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Activity | Lesson No. 1: Construction |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Fanny |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Charley Fish |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Spinacker |
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| Comic Story | The Bedouins, Part 5 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Wing Brady; Slim; The Bedouin chief |
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| Featuring | New Fun's Treasure Hunt |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Text Story | Circus Day; The Plum Pudding Cat; Things to Do (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless story |
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| Comic Story | Ur the Caveboy, Part 5 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Historical | Characters: Ur; Wur |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Comic Story | General Simon Bolivar |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Damsel in Distress, Part 2 |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Jack Woods |
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| Comic Story | The Needle (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: The Dalai Lama |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Brad Hardy; Lorraine Lewis; Prince Kardos; King Naga (villain, introduction); Rat Men |
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| Comic Story | Episode 5 |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Ivanhoe; Cedric; Lady Rowena; Prince John; Waldemar Fitzurse; Locksley [Robin Hood]; Hubert |
| Notes | Adapted from Sir Walter Scott's novel. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Andrews |
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| Comic Story | Dewey and the Pirates, Part 2 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Jack Dewey |
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| Cartoon | Bright Lights of History |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | In Ancient Egypt, Part 5 |
| Synopsis | Bobby and Binks are still trapped in the Egypt of 4,000 B.C. They witness the poisoning of the Pharaoh Hotep. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Bobby; Binks; Hotep |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Pelion; Ossa |
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| Comic Story | Captain Kiddlaw, Part 5 (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rex Cosmos; Professor Stanley; Joan Stanley; Captain Kiddlaw (villain) |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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