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| Publication | June 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; Jane Arden (inset); The Clock [Brian O'Brien] (inset); The Red Torpedo [Captain Jim Lockhart] (inset); The Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset) |
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| Synopsis | Obviously knowing his double identity, the mysterious Orchid sends notes to Brian, who acknowleges having met her twice before. |
| Featuring | The Clock |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; The Orchid; Harvey Gibbs (villain, introduction); Nick (villain, introduction); other un-named gangsters (villains, introduction for all) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Molly; Nifty; Danny; Gloria Glamour |
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| Comic Story | New Way to Get a Seat (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | The Blastproof Battleship (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Red Torpedo [Captain Jim Lockhart]; Adolf Hitler (villain); Herman Göring (villain); Josef Goebbels (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | The Who's Who suggests, as do Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash in the Quality Companion, that Kiefer not only created this feature, but did the art for it through the strip's entire run. Kiefer is also usually considered to have written it. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | Mission to Chenfu (4 pages) |
| Content | Characters: Lee Preston; Ken Davis (introduction); Chinese renegades (villains) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Villain from Venus (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Space Legion; Rock Braddon; Jafek (villain, introduction, death); Prof. Wadsworth (introduction); Elaine Wadsworth (introduction) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Patterson's Plot (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; Patterson (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Runs on the bottom half of each Jane Arden page. |
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| Cartoon | About That Fourth Inning in Philadelphia in 1925. (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
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| Comic Story | Professor Discovers New Destructive Chemical (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Prof. Lane (introduction); Sgt. O'Malley (introduction); A spy (villain, introduction) |
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| Text Story | Doom Syndicate (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Eric Vale |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Eric Vale (first appearance) |
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| Cartoon | Jean Hersholt (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Biography |
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| Comic Story | The House of Fear (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Wizard Wells; Black Morda (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Adventure of Ali Kan (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Condor defends a British brother and sister from the clutches of Ali Kan while brandishing a new weapon: a paralyzing black ray gun. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; Andrea Kent (introduction); Denny Kent (introduction); Ada (introduction); Ali Kan (villain, introduction) |
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| Advertisement | I Swam for My Life and Won! (1 page) |
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