| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bozo the Robot (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Slash Scraponi's Escape (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Corny Hogan turns state's evidence on Slash Scarponi, and the criminal is sentenced to Bedlam Island prison for twenty years. However, Slash is still able to control his mob on the outside because he has a phony warden in charge of the prison. When Happy Terrill begins putting the heat on Scarponi, the mobster decides it's time to break out of prison and get Terrill. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Lanford "Happy" Terrill]; unnamed Warden of Bedlam Island prison; Slash Scraponi (villain, introduction); Corny Hogan (villain, death); unnamed fake Warden of Bedlam Island prison (villain) |
| Notes | Story title amended to that found in the reprint. |
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| Content | Genre: Aviation |
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| Comic Story | Madame La Zinga (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Scarlet Seal (Barry Moore); Captain Pat Moore |
| Notes | Credits suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Graft (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Midnight investigates graft and corruption at an orphanage. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight (Dave Clark);Old Man Dobbs; Bobby |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Warren; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill] |
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| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X] |
| Notes | 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. Dick French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder ((1942-43). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo |
| Notes | Page count and first line from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. |
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| Synopsis | Kent and Chuck crash land in the Arctic and find a tropical land replete with cavemen and thought-to-be extinct animals. Belthor, leader of the cavemen, says that the land is heated by volcanic steam and his people enslaved by men drilling for oil. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Chuck; Belthor (leader of the Cro-Magnon men); Gordon Stack (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Shauri (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Text Story | The Mummy Speaks (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian |
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| Synopsis | When Tom's passenger plane is hijacked en route to Alaska, he defends the home front by uncovering an invasion plot wherein enemy agents are converting American transports into bombers. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Magno [Tom Dalton]; unnamed enemy agent leader (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Lamas of the Red Dragon (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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