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| Publication | December 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Cover | The Laughing Killer! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey) |
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| Comic Story | The Laughing Killer (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Midnight tracks a killer who can't stop laughing. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hotdog; Laughing Killer (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Black X Marks the Spot (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The liberation of Taoten, in China. While Black X helps to organize the Chinese underground, Batu is captured by the Japanese. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Black X; Batu |
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| Comic Story | The Boogie Woogie Dirge (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A drug addict musician is mysteriously killed backstage. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Mel Marvel; Gus Getti; Tony Getti |
| Notes | Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but he has quite different faces with very bushy eyebrows and small mouth, narrow undistinct eyes and larger, rounded jaw. Looks more like Mort Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, with movements, faces and large hands, but his many white panels without backgrounds are missing. |
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| Synopsis | The Count gets mixed up with a fight promoter who's hoping to make a quick buck on a fixed match. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DiChange |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Synopsis | The Marksman has to battle a dinosaur in South America in order to uncover a Japanese poison gas plant. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz); Anna; Juan; Captain Hinushi (villain); Captain Kioto (villain) |
| Notes | This is the same artist as in #54. |
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| Comic Story | Mountains of the Moon (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Up with the U.S.A.! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons; Cobina Vanderast; Percy Harlow |
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| Synopsis | McGinty tries to arrange a double-date for Chuck, but someone poisoned the pie and the Jester has to sort through the clues. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Celeste (French maid); Bridget; Mister Palmer; Dennis Harpe; Myrna; Max Lubold |
| Notes | Large hands and a great variety of faces and also some panels with empty white backgrounds point to Leav. |
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