| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Wings Wendall (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Archie O'Toole (inset); Abdul the Arab (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Devil's Island (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | A thief named Moran has sole possession of the secret to a new gun. When he is captured for murder and sent to Devil's Island, Black X has to go along to keep him from giving the secret to the French. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Dean (death); Batu; M'sieu Rolande (death); Camille; Commandant of Devil's Island; Rene (death); Moran (villain, thief) |
| Notes | Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name) until he left the feature after 1940. It also became a house by-line as well for future writers. |
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| Comic Story | Old Clutchcopper (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo; Old Clutchcopper (Intro) |
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| Comic Story | The Northern Fur Robbery (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Gat Griffin; Trixie; Blinky |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | Six unrelated gag panels. |
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| Comic Story | The Golden Dragon (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Joyce Clark; Dan Clark; Thomas Clark; The Golden Dragon [Ah Sin](villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Golden Spike (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: King Archie O'Toole; Gil O'Teen |
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| Comic Story | Cliff Melton (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports |
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| Comic Story | The Rifle Robbery (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Conrad Gunther (introduction); Judy Mallon (introduction) |
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| Synopsis | Tiny, Rocky and Warren are ousted from their jobs in the faltering performance industry and decide to band together to pool their talents in fighting crime. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd (a midget); Rocky Hill (an acrobat); Warren (a magician)] (introduction, origin); Sandra Starr |
| Notes | The Purple Trio were three vaudevillains. Rockey wore a red suit, Warren wore a blue suit and Tiny wore a yellow suit. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Clip Chance; Spud; Chuck |
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| Comic Story | An Almost Perfect Swindle (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Veep spots a suspicious character who is obviously charging protection money to merchants, and has him arrested. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Philpot Veep; Waldo |
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| Comic Story | The Episode of the Prominent Proboscis (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Philpot Veep; Waldo |
| Notes | last appearance |
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| Comic Story | The Origin of Magno (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tom is electrocuted by 10,000 D.C. volts, then revived by an equal shock of A.C. volts, all of which result in his obtaining powers of magnetism. As a blue collar lineman in a local town, he often uses excuses to duck away from his job to right injustices. |
| Featuring | Magno the Miracle Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Magno [Tom Dalton] (introduction, origin); Mike Harvey (introduction) |
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| Text Story | Kickback (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmie Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Tobe Waller; Tony |
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| Comic Story | Ahmed the Bedouin (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Abdul the Arab; Hassan; Ahmed; Najaf (Intro); Sheik Tell Akib (intro) |
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| Comic Story | Tracking the Chinatown Terror (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Craig Cook; Kelly; The Key (intro) |
| Notes | Previously credited to Bill Smith, but clearly by Stan Asch.
Final appearance. |
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| Comic Story | The Pneumonia Cure (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Bozo the Robot; Hugh Hazzard; Dr. E. Salor (intro); Boss Patone; Slick; Horg (Dies) |
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| Featuring | The Ray |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray |
| Notes | ad for the first appearance of the Ray in the next issue. On sale July 19
On back cover. |
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