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| Publication | October 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Wanted! Midnight -- Dead or Alive! $1,000,000 Reward! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby; Doc Mortimer Wackey |
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| Comic Story | Wanted! Midnight -- Dead or Alive! $1,000,000 Reward! (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The underworld puts out a million dollar bounty on Midnight, but no one wants to collect on it until Brains Baroni offers a fool-proof, no risk way to get rid of Midnight. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot Dog; Brains Baroni (villain); Stilleto (villain); Bruiser (villain) |
| Notes | Title from the cover |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Tool (king); Hanratty |
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| Comic Story | The Great White Way (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Daffy suddenly finds herself as a star in a Broadway show with a possible murder on her hands. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy; Null and Void (producers); 10 Percent (an agent); a plumber |
| Notes | Script revision from Tumey to ? by Craig Delich. The Who's Who does not indicate that Tumey wrote this feature and no extant evidence proves that he did. The Who's Who also indicates that Tumey only drew Daffy from 1946-49. Other listed artists include Milt Stein in 1945 and Janice Valleau from 1945-46. |
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| Comic Story | Tibet! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Grand Lama brings Black X to his land to investigate his would-be successor. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Black X; Batu; The Grand Lama; Tura |
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| Comic Story | The Notorious Yokukasa Brothers (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Yokukasa Brothers disguise themselves as children in order to plant bombs |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Peecolo; Pinky; Yokukasa Brothers (villains) |
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| Comic Story | Rookie Rankin Takes the Payoff (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rookie tries to put a stop to a gambling racket run by Sloop Tager |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Sloop Tager; Boss Pete Pinero |
| Notes | Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but does not match his other credited stories in this features. Compared with Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, everything matches, face of the policeman, large hands, way of running with high lifted knees and some panels without backgrounds. Only the inking is different from his signed story. |
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| Synopsis | Wun discovers a big fellow beating up someone because of a poster he sees that he mis-interprets. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo |
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| Comic Story | Another William Tell (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Major Hurtz welcomes a delegation of Japanese delegates who have come to Poland to help plan for future attacks on their enemies, and they have the cruelest plan ever to try and smoke out the Marksman. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; the Nazis (villains); the Japanese [Mito; others un-named] (villains, some die) |
| Notes | Guardineer is only credited on drawing this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Text Story | Black Doom (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Detective-mystery | Characters: Jimmy Christian (detective); Gabrielle Dupard (Mystery Woman); Pierre Dupard |
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| Comic Story | Mary Slade (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A young girl is framed for her brother's murder, and the Yankee Eagle ends up nabbing her cousin for the crime as well as him using a secret radio transmitter to forward vital information for the Japanese. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Mary Slade; Mary Slade's brother (death); Kelsey (a Policeman); John Hadley (villain, Mary's cousin); Irwin (villain, Hadley's butler) |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Comic Story | The Adventure of Stoneface! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Stoneface has found his way to the hidden headquarters of Rad Romsey, gang chief, to offer his help in killing the Jester, just as he killed off Romsey's partner, Vikko Voroni. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Stoneface (villain); Rad Romsey (villain, gang chief); Vikko Voroni (villain, death); Whiffy (villain, death) |
| Notes | This is probably Leav, as it is very similar to his signed stories in Wanted Comics (Orbit-Wanted, 1947 series) #52. |
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