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| The cow story is a good one! |
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| Ah, the everlasting magic of Jack Cole. What a sad loss to the world when he took his own life. |
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| Publication | August 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a polar bear) |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | Percy, who stole a valuable sapphire, gets away from Midnight at the Slocum County Fair. Shortly afterwards the prize cow Angela is stolen before the cattle judging competition. While Midnight is searching for the cow, a beautiful dancing girl leads him into Percy's ambush. At the end, Midnight figures out that the sapphire had been stuck in Angela's cowbell. Percy couldn't get the sapphire out, nor remove the cowbell, so had to take Angela with him. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hot-Foot (a polar bear); Angela (cow); Percy Sharker (villain); Oscar Bowen; Les Soames; Geraldine (cow) |
| Notes | This adventure echoes one of Cole's other creations: The Barker. |
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| Comic Story | The Apache Dancer (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Deke gets Daffy a gig as an apache dancer. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy; Barney; Deke Parsons; Gaston; Yvette; Jean; Marcel |
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| Comic Story | The Dope Smugglers (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two of the force's best men have been killed trying to find the headquarters of the dope runners, and now Inspector Burton summons Black X for help. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Batu; Beef Burton (inspector); Mona |
| Notes | 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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| Synopsis | A parcel of counterfeit money is picked up at the railway station. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lady Luck; Peecolo; Rat-Ears; Mr. Rample |
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| Synopsis | Batch rents a car to take Bunny out. |
| Featuring | Batch Bachelor |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Batch Bachelor; Bunny Bananas; Junior; Mr. Shyster |
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| Text Story | This Is the Bird (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | In the Andes the giant bird out of a legend comes down on the mountain winds and scares off gold-seeking guides and carriers. |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian (reporter); Senor Lopez (miner); Jose; Chaka |
| Notes | Text story. |
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| Comic Story | The Club Presidency (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The boys have an explosive club meeting after Mom's hen drinks some nitroglycerine. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Spunky; Curly; Marge; Pug; Spunky's mother; government scientist |
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| Synopsis | A society dame sends a false kidnapping note to attact Chuck's attention |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: McGinty; Miss Van Gander; Rocky; Migg; Rafferty; Potlach |
| Notes | The art is identical to Zolnerowich's credited Swing Sisson stories in Feature Comics (Quality, 1939 series) #111 and #119. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| How Joe's Body Brought Him Fame Instead of Shame (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Joe is humiliated on the beach so he takes the Charles Atlas course, so he can beat up guys and impress women. |
| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photograph) | Inks:?;? (photograph) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Joe |
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| Outwitting the Kidnappers (1 page) |
| Synopsis | U. S. Royal stops a kidnappers' car with a spark-interrupter. |
| Content | Characters: U. S. Royal |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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