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| Publication | March 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Featuring | Skyrocket Steele |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Skyrocket Steele Dodge |
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| Foreword/Afterword | Hello Boys and Girls (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Uncle Joe] (credited, see notes) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Top half of the page is a letter to readers of the magazine by Uncle Joe, talking about what lies in the future as far as life as we know it is concerned. The bottom half is an illustrated advertisement from Centaur Publications, Inc. for two separate instruction books on how to learn how to draw by Chuck Thorndike ("The Secrets of Cartooning" and "The Art of Cartooning"), and the book, "Turn Your Humor Into Money", by Sydney K. Margous, all covers reporduced. |
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| Comic Story | Part 1 - The Professors Enemy! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | On their way home after the "Air-Sub" has undergone a series of tests, Professor Gray and the crew fly over Curley's land, who immediately issues orders to bring the DX down, but not to destroy it. |
| Featuring | Air-Sub 'DX' |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Professor Gray; Tim; Rita; Curley (villain); Kirk (villain) |
| Notes | Burgos also signed his last name only on the last panel, and next issues story is titled "Invasion". |
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| Synopsis | Dirk and the Princess arrive for her wedding to Prince Marcus, but they find the place overtaken by men in strange masks. They're captured, but Dirk escapes and frees the royal couple. |
| Featuring | Dirk the Demon |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dirk the Demon [Dirk Cay]; Princess Nemo; Prince Marcus |
| Notes | Most data added by Henry Andrews 2009-07-10.
Story takes place in 2330 A.D.
Everett signed the last panel. |
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| Comic Story | Vanishing Men (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Sheriff and his posse chase a group of bank robbers into the hills, where they disappear, which they seem to do every time they commit a crime! When the posse decides to pitch camp and await the outlaws to show themselves, the Sheriff decides to look around, and is spotted by the Phantom making his way to the lair of the bandits! |
| Featuring | Phantom o' the Hills |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Phantom of the Hills; Thunder (Phantom's horse); Pete (posse member); Lem (posse member); bank robbers [Joe; rest un-named] (villains, some die); un-named Sheriff (villain, bank robber's boss) |
| Notes | Script and art credits by Craig Delich, verified by the Who's Who.
Pinajian signed the last panel. |
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| Text Story | Dictator's Mistakes (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dictator Luaram is determined not to let a Professor's invention, an infra-atomic bomb, leave the nation, and, instead, be used by the mad fiend to rule the world! But the wily Professor has an ace up his sleeve to deal with the mad man. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Professor Gardner (super-scientist); Luaram (villain, Dictator of Almania, death); Almanian War Cabinet (villains) |
| Notes | Rex Lawrence is a by-line used by a writer at Centaur on many of their text pieces. |
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| Comic Story | The Madhouse Murder Mystery (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Inspector Farrel is ordered by the Chief to investigate the report of a suicide at the Hillcrest Sanitarium, and pauses to question the nurse on duty when she is suddenly seized by a mysterious hooded figure in black and taken to a dungeon in the sanitarium for an immediate brain transplant. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Crime | Characters: "Bull" O'Rourke (Chief of Detectives); Inspector Chic Farrel (Police ace investigator); Bruce Baron (actor, death); Mary Black (nurse); Dr. Raynard (hospital staff member); Hooded Black-Cloaked figure [Marstar; aka Dr. Delamorte] (villain, brain specialist); Quando (Hooded figure's assistant) |
| Notes | Some pages in red tones, others in black and white.
Ethel Felder Webster is the full name of this artist/writer for Centaur. It is a good bet that she wrote this story. She signed the last panel.
Delamorte's name is also spelled on the splash page as Delamort. |
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| Comic Story | Pay Off For Mr. Ghost (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Captain ordered Pat to accompany a news reporter over to the Billings place to investigate spooky goings-on, and the pair believe one of Mr. Billing's servants is to blame. However, they discover that all three are in on the plan to scare the Billings' because they haven't been paid, and this investigation would result either in bad publicity for the Billings, or the servant's salaries getting paid. |
| Featuring | Pat O'Day |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Pat O'Day (detective); un-named Police Captain; Jerry Mays (reporter); Mr. Billings; Billing's wife; The Ghost [Billing's butler]; Jane (Billing's maid); Greta (Billing's cook) |
| Notes | The Who's Who confirms Buresch wrote this feature. |
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| Comic Story | The Mysterious Poacher (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Dale and his buddy scouted the area for missing animals, and discovered many of them beheaded or missing entirely, and suspect that a poacher was at work. |
| Featuring | Captain Dale |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Dale; un-named Corporal; Charlie Bigmoose (Indian tracker); Gus Lucas (poacher) |
| Notes | The Who's Who confirms that Hastings wrote this feature. |
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| Comic Story | Fantastic Projects! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | One page illustrated look at rail transportation of the past, present and future. |
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| Synopsis | Invex reports to Steele that his formula for his new creation, the "Invisa-Ray", has been stolen from the safe. Unknown to either, Steele's girl has taken the formula and uses it on herself in order to trail Vance Roy unawares and see what evil plans he has in store. And what she discovers is too horrible to contemplate: the Yellow Star Army has seized control of the entire planet. |
| Featuring | Skyrocket Steele in the Year X (about 2500 A.D.) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Skyrocket Steele Dodge; Invex (the Invisible Man); Sari Marston (Steele's girl); Paul Marston (Sari's brother, spy for the Red Men of Venus); Martin (castle guard); Vance Roy (villain, mention only) |
| Notes | Concludes next issue.
Everett signs the last panel. |
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| Synopsis | Flung from a meteor and landing on Earth, Eddie is spotted by two large birds, one of whom wants to take Eddie for his kids to play with. But the bird gets tired and drops Eddie into a nudist camp. |
| Featuring | Eddie the Odd |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Eddie the Odd; Bill (a bird); Bert (a bird) |
| Notes | Cecelia Munson was a house name at Fox Publications, often used by Munson as writer and artist. |
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| Advertisement | Thrilling Mystery and Adventure Stories (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils: various | Inks: various | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Advertisement from Centaur Publications. Inc. to order Big Little Books with mystery and adventure themes. |
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| Advertisement | Wow! The Years Biggest Bargain! (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Found on the back cover.
Illustrated advertisement from Johnson Smith and Company in Detroit for a variety of things readers could buy: a genuine portable typewriter (for 39 cents yet), a movie projector and five films (for 89 cents), glider skates (for 79 cents), a printing press (for $2.98), and many others. |
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