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| Publication | Summer 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Notes | Artist revision from ? to Stoner per Ken Quattro's article in Alter Ego #118 (July 2013). |
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| Cover | Pinup of the Year |
| Featuring | Green Mask |
| Credits | Pencils: E. C. Stoner | Inks: E. C. Stoner |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Green Mask |
| Notes | Artist revision from ? to Stoner per Ken Quattro's article in Alter Ego #118 (July 2013). |
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| Comic Story | The Pigeons of Death (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Johnny, Suzie and Ronnie take a walk, then return to Ronnie's rooftop pigeon coop and find criminals have stolen some of his birds and killed the rest. They plan to make the pigeons flying bombs to down an FBI airplane. Johnny becomes the Green Mask and fights the crooks but Ronnie, the Green Mask and Suzie are captured. The crooks use rockets to send their 3 prisoners skyward as well, with bombs tied to them. Ronnie uses his lead pigeon to cause the rest of his flock to avoid the FBI plane. The bombs are dropped on the crooks' cave hideout and the "robber sub" waiting to pick them up. |
| Featuring | Green Mask |
| Credits | Script:? [as Jack Fiske] |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Green Mask; Johnny Green; Suzie; Ronnie; Rummy |
| Notes | Jack Fiske is a house byline for this feature.
As in one story in the previous issue, Johnny Green is aware he can change into the Green Mask if he gets angry and shouts. |
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| Synopsis | Nightclub owner Pussy Katnip thinks her cigarette "girl" Maizie (a horse) is acting oddly. Maizie's escaped prisoner boyfriend Race Track Hutch is hiding in the club, but Pussy drinks a Katnip Fizz and her mind becomes "very clear." Pussy tips off the cops and Hutch is arrested. |
| Featuring | Pussy Katnip |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Pussy Katnip; George; Tobacco Maizie; Race Track Hutch |
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| Comic Story | Tale of the Counterfeit Coins (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Private eye Dick thinks he's solved the case of counterfeit coins flooding the city, but he just wins first prize in high society Mrs. Van Oop's treasure hunt. |
| Featuring | Dick Transom |
| Credits | Script:? [as Hap Harris] | Pencils: Al Zere? | Inks: Al Zere? |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Transom; Joe; Jeffrey; Mrs. Van Oop |
| Notes | Hap Harris was a house byline for this series. |
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| Text Story | The Ghost of Purple Rock (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | Snooky and her friend Honey Bear use a magic wishing ring to summon Jinnee. They ask him to take them to see the Old Witch. The witch threatens to turn them into cookies but Honey Bear uses the ring to convert her previous victims back into children and change the witch into a cookie herself. |
| Featuring | Snooky |
| Credits | Script:? [as Toby] |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Children; Fantasy | Characters: Snooky; Honey Bear; Jinnee; Old Witch |
| Notes | Toby was the house byline for this series. |
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| Comic Story | The Marauder Comet (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Astra's scientist father is abducted by a "horrible being" while in the midst of experimenting on the dangerous element X090. If he isn't rescued, X090 may destroy Earth. Father Astra is taken to the planet Pyrotis, ruled by Igno, who demands the secret of X090. Rick and the others arrive and foil Igno's plans, but are too late to prevent X090 from blowing up the Earth. However, the whole story was Stringbean's nightmare. |
| Featuring | Rick Evans |
| Credits | Script:? [as Stan Ford] | Pencils: Lou Ferstadt | Inks: Lou Ferstadt |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rick Evans; Stringbean; Professor Astra; Father Astra; Igno |
| Notes | Stan Ford was the house byline for this feature.
Art is consistent with Ferstadt‘s signed Rick Evans story from The Green Mask #v2#3 (Fall, 1945). |
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