| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Quicksilver [Max] (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset); Kid Patrol [Suzy; Sunshine; Porky; Teddy] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Mine Slaves (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | After an afternoon of fishing, Uncle Sam and Buddy enter enter a town, but to their surprise, there are no men there! When they learn that the men have been kidnapped to work in a mine, they decide to investigate and free the men if at all possible. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; un-named storekeeper (villain); un-named mine foreman (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Arson and a Jewel Box (6 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? (signed as Frank Kearns) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Mike O'Neil |
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| Comic Story | Airplane Trip (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? (signed as Dan Wilson) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Kid Patrol [Suzy; Sunshine; Porky; Teddy] |
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| Comic Story | The Movie Crew Spies (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? (signed as Lynn Byrd) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Prop Powers; Lank; A movie director (first appearance; villain); Vera (first appearance; villain); other spies (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | Wanted: Large Size Hurricane (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | The Kidnapping (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon]; Goldy (first appearance; villain); other kidnappers (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | Wizard Ward and the Boat Race (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Quicksilver stops Ward and Snatch from rigging a boat race, and, in the process, reveals that he wears a bullet-proof suit. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; Wizard Ward (villain, introduction); V. Snatch McGatt (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Department Store Arsonists (4 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? (signed as Lowell Riggs) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Jack Doe; Jill Doe; A gang of arsonists (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | He Ain't Stupid (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cyclone Cupid [Cupid] (first appearance; origin) |
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| Comic Story | The Lost City (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? (signed as Jerry Maxwell) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wonder Boy; Richards (first appearance; villain; death); Velez (first appearance; villain; death); Oraccos (first appearance; villain); Paul Darrow (first appearance) |
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| Text Story | Stars and Stripes (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Toni Blum [as Anthony Lamb] | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Subway Pickpockets (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Pen Miller; Lefty and his gang (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Red Dog Fire (4 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? (signed as Storey Weaver) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Paul Bunyan; Three renegade Indians (first appearance; villains; death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Winky |
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| Comic Story | Temple of the Man-Eating Spider (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Merlin heads deep into the Himalayas in hopes of claiming a legendary diamond to bolster Britain's war relief funds. When the priests of the temple foolishly try and stop him, Merlin conjures up the great spider-god, Agor, then reaches the diamond while turning its defenders into bats, and impales the High Priestess on a spear. Merlin then completely destroys the temple and gives the diamond to Prime Minster Churchill himself. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; Winston Churchill; Agor (villain, spider-god); Nang Tu (villain, introduction, high Priestess, death); un-named Spider priests (villains, introduction for all, all die) |
| Notes | Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line on this strip. |
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