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| Publication | July 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | The City of Crime! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane] |
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| Comic Story | The City of Crime (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doll Man hitchhikes on a gyrocopter to a hidden city sheltered behind steep cliffs and ruled by criminals. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Holly Jones (first appearance; villain); Duke Hagen (first appearance; villain); the Mayor (first appearance; villain); other denizens of Crime City (first appearance; villains) |
| Notes | Leaning 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 may vary, and is uncertain. |
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| Comic Story | The Court of Human Ills (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy |
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| Comic Story | Animalis Contagious (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky; Circe (first appearance; villain) |
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| Synopsis | Vincent plans to get out of debt by becoming a radio performer. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; J.P.; doctor |
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| Synopsis | Vincent plans to pawn a family heirloom. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza |
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| Synopsis | Vincent is hung over but Lala gets her headache in another way. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza |
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| Comic Story | Jam Session with a Ghost (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A music arranger is killed, and Swing impersonates him to unmask the killer. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Dundy (first appearance; death); Bill Givot (first appearance; villain) |
| Notes | All the short figures look like Quackenbush. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mickey Finn; Philip Finn; Florrie Finn |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Text Story | Spook of San Nicolas (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Comic Story | Become a Strong Man (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Comic Story | Forlorn Island (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spin acts as an escort for a female anthropolgical expert and takes her to Forlorn Island, and stumle upon two wanted crooks. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw] (last appearance); Dr. Maybelle (first appearance); two crooks (first appearance; villains) |
| Notes | Last appearance.
So similar art to the previous in this feature that it most probably be Quackenbush. He is credited on pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the inking too looks like his signed stories for Quality Comics. |
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| Synopsis | Butch mistakes a would-be performer for a banker. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boss Jefferson Bangs; Butch; Rubber-Faced Rufus |
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| Synopsis | Butch tries out a new makeup to impress his boss. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boss Jefferson Bangs; Butch |
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| Comic Story | Sleepy Willow (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Bombo boys smash the office of the Sleepy Willow Clarion for exposing some of their dirty tricks around the town. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Parkins (introduction), Pierpont Lee; Alababa]; The Bombo Brothers [Berry Bombo; Burly Bombo; Buck Bombo] (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Final appearance of the "Rusty Ryan and the Boyville Brigadiers" feature. Next issue it will be replaced by the original feature it was spun off from, "Rusty Ryan". |
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