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| "Sinful Sir Nuts" - sublime lunacy from the incomparable Jack Cole. |
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| Publication | February 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | Midnight Gets the Bird from Sir Nuts! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Bo |
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| Synopsis | A dying criminal wants to reveal all his underworld connections to Midnight. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Dog (a polar bear); Sir Nuts (a parrot); Ralph Raines (villain); Bo (villain) |
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| Comic Story | See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A burglar insists he is a contestant on a radio program that makes people do silly things. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo (detective); Burglar |
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| Synopsis | Marge has adopted a bulldog for a week. The bulldog likes Curly, but not Spunky. Spunky and Pug try to figure out how to get Towser to like Spunky, with the usual unfortunate results. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Spunky; Marge (girl friend); Curly (rival); Pug (pal); Towser (bulldog) |
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| Comic Story | Rookie Rankin's Last Day on the Force (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Before he is sacked, Rankin is going to prove Commissioner Enwright sells meat at double prices through the black market. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Commissioner Enwright (villain); Kewpie (villain, black marketeer) |
| Notes | This is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics (Quality, 1941 series) credited to Pete Riss.
Bob Hughes agrees the pencils are by Riss. |
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| Synopsis | A fake Dickens first edition made by Pussyfoot & Boldface, printers, is sold to Bruce Banks, rare book collector. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Bruce Banks [aka Bicford aka Fred J. Banks] (Brenda's father, book collector); Paul Pussyfoot (villain, printer); Boldface (villain, printer) |
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| Comic Story | The Lost Rajah of Rashore (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man is killed before he can tell Black X where to find the rightful ruler of Lashore. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Black X; Batu; Rajah of Lashore; Ajib; Nabob Tipu (villain) |
| Notes | Originally credited "Alex Blum?". Art identical to Zolne's credited Swing Sisson story in Feature Comics #111 and #119. Faces, way of standing with a bend in the hips and knees. Also the shuffling walking or running are special. The art has some resemblance to Alex Blum, but leg movement is quite different. |
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| Text Story | The Camera Calls It Murder (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | An actor is killed during a movie take. |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian (reporter); Mac Baron (director); Glenwick (producer); Melnick (actor); Kurt Metz (actor); Otto Meisner (actor) |
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| Synopsis | Daffy wrestles a giant hillbilly girl. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy; Deke Parsons; Ezmereldy (wrestler) |
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| Synopsis | The retired mobmaster can't take any joke and has a man killed for laughing. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Quinopolis; Chowder Channay (villain, retired mobmaster) |
| Notes | Originally credited Ed Dobrotka as his name seemed to be barely visible as the author credit on a book, "Biography of a Comic Artist", in this story. The name on the book is something like J.D. Parkwust, not Dobrotka.
Art is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics credited to Peter Riss on pencils. |
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