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| Publication | November 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Midnight Scores Again! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Rookie Ranking (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Doc Wackey Goes Berserk! (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The mysterious Professor returns for Doc Wackey's life, and uses Doc to create and test a super-speed formula. Wackey ends up with super speed, which he proceeds to dedicate to a life of crime! Midnight took the serum himself just to keep up with Doc, but it eventually wears off. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby; Skull Duggery; The Professor |
| Notes | Inker revision from Cole to DiPreta by Craig Delich 2013-6-16 per Jim Amash in the Quality Companion. |
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| Comic Story | Rescuing Papa (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A little girl asks Black X to rescue her father who is being held by the Nazis behind enemy lines. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tinka Van Doorne (Peter's daughter); Peter Van Doorne |
| Notes | Writer credits by Craig Delich.
Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Synopsis | Chuck Lane asks that the toughest juvenile offender be paroled into his custody. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Tough Tony; Dagger Joe (villain); Trigger (villain) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Dean of Darkness (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Dean of Darkness tries to hold Carol Martin for ransom, not realizing she's Wildfire. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dean of Darkness; Wildfire |
| Notes | Last appearance of feature.
Final Golden Age appearance of Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin). Appears next in The Golden Age (DC, 1993 Series) #4 ([May] 1994). |
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| Comic Story | The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A trio of kidnappers find a little boy too much to handle. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Peter Percy Gotgelt III; Hugh Hazzard; Bozo; The Terrible Trio |
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| Comic Story | The Frozen Lands of the Midnight Sun (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ray searches for a spy who has ferreted out plans for an allied invasion of Norway. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud |
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| Synopsis | Rankin breaks up a counterfeiting ring that makes phony rationing coupons. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Artie |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo (detective) |
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| Synopsis | A disgruntled zoo employee lets the animals loose to get revenge on the zoo director. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Peters (villain) |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Text Story | Spy (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | The Undersea Wolf (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Captain Kroll; Spinner Benson |
| Notes | last appearance |
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| Comic Story | The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Czech, an Austrian and a Pole escape from a concentration camp and join the underground as the Three Shadows, through whom the Marksman smuggles Nazi war plans to the British. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; The Three Shadows (introduction for all); Schtuper (villain) |
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