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| Lovely cameo from a stuttering Jack Cole, "M-M-My wife s-says I'm the buh-best c-c-c-ca-cart-t-toonist afoot!" She wasn't far wrong. |
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| Publication | July 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; The Spirit [Denny Colt] (inset) |
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| Advertisement | How Well Do You Know Our War Weapons? (1 page) |
| Featuring | Bendix |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad done up like an activity.
Match the vessels with their symbols. |
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| Comic Story | Woozy Winks Detective Agency (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cole writes himself into the story as a stuttering dweeb: a dream tale in which the heroes are knocked out by an explosion. Then Woozy instructs Cole to draw the faces of crooks Abba and Dabba for a "wanted" poster while Plastic Man dreams of Woozy Winks and Jack Cole teaming up to stop the two villains. Cole's un-named and obscured publisher frees him from the crooks. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Jack Cole; "Busy" Arnold; Abba (villain, introduction); Dabba (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Kidnapped Corpse (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | When a jeweler on his beat is murdered, Richards is suspended from his job. Eventually, Manhunter solves the crime and Richard's suspension is commuted. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Manhunter [Dan Richards]; Thor; Sam Gromont; Ben Bloom; Trigger Ike; Mr. Black; Louie |
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| Comic Story | Flatfoot's Substitute (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zeke McCoy has got the latest issue of Police Comics and is reading the Flatfoot Burns story when Flatfoot lands unconscious at Zeke's feet and Zeke takes on Flatfoot's identity to solve the story. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Zeke McCoy; Plastic Man (on comic); Flatfoot Burns; "Spooks" Socrates; Zebediah |
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| Synopsis | Dewey tries to figure out how to do the handshake twist. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Dewey Drip; Sergeant; General; Governor |
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| Comic Story | Ogre Goran (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ogre Goran escapes from prison and goes after the woman he planned to marry. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ogre Goran; Mary Cowan; Mr. Cowan; Ebony; Olga Goran |
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| Comic Story | Enter: The Raven (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | After three attempts being made on Senator Knight's life, Phantom Lady decides to find out, once and for all, who is behind these attempts. Having been told that her Dad is being held captive on the docks, she soon confronts the mysterious boss behind the kidnapping and that this man also holds The Raven captive. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Senator Harold H. Knight; The Raven [Tony Grey]; The Boss (villain); Spike (villain) |
| Notes | Story continues from Feature Comics #69 (July, 1943). Phantom Lady wears a domino mask.
Later swiped for the Wing Meets Nitro story in Joke Comics #17 (Bell Features). |
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| Text Story | Curtain of Death (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A top police officer and an FBI agent are found murdered in an alley. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dan Gregory; Butch Boccillo; Dick Mace; Old Sol; Gookins |
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| Synopsis | Some crooks steal some apples from a fruit stand. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Super Snooper; Luigi; Soapy |
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| Comic Story | The Three-Man "Perfect" Crime (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Parker Brothers are bored with all the war restrictions, so they decide to commit the perfect crime. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Destiny; Will Parker; Frank Parker; Ted Parker; Ronny Wakefield; Charles |
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| Comic Story | Burp's One Weakness (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Crooks try to find Burp's weakness so they can rob the bank. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
| Notes | Burp has his old body in this story. |
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| Synopsis | The captain of a ferry decides to take the boat out into the Pacific for a change. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Larson; The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] |
| Notes | Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs. |
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| Featuring | Knickerbocker Publishing Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for the book, Fun For Boys. |
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| Featuring | Baby Ruth |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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