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| The art on Ray's story reminds me of Bob Fujitani. And I'm pretty sure that's him. The faces, the eyes, and especially the rat's teeth all say Bob Fuji to me. The GCD says it's Lou Fine but I wouldn't say it's Fine's art. |
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| Publication | February 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Wanted: Midnignt and His Assistants |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Who Is Monsieur Le Rat? (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | In Syria, Happy and Bud meet Sue Saunders of a rival newspaper, and uncovers a French surveillance device disguised as the giant Monsieur le Rat. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill] (war correspondent); Bud; Sue Saunders (newspaper woman); Monsieur Le Rat (villain, surveilance device) |
| Notes | After Happy becomes a war correspondent, he couldn't afford to take Bud with him on his adventures. Astonishingly, Bud threatens to reveal the Ray's true identity to the world if Happy refuses to take him along....so Happy caves in. |
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| Comic Story | Burly Monahan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Burly Monahan is out on parole and gunning for Rookie. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Burly Monahan; Sgt. Burns; Riley |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Synopsis | The Jester shuts down an illegal gambling joint masquerading as a charity. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective McGinty; Caraso |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Snow Valley (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Criminals try to kidnap young movie star Micky Keene and Carol Martin in Snow Valley to hold them for ransom, but Wildfire foils their plans. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Mickey Keene (movie star); kidnappers [Slippery; Red Coles; others unnamed](villains) |
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| Synopsis | Rogar wants to know where Prof Watson's lab is, so he kidnaps Jane in order to blackmail the professor. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Kent Thurston; Rogar; Jane Watson; Yar |
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| Comic Story | The Transmutation Machine (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doc's latest invention can transmute matter from one element to another.......just the thing Spade and Weasel are looking for. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Spade (villain); Weasel (villain) |
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| Synopsis | Klotz and his spies occupy a secret floor in the Cronin Building. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Colonel Atwater; Batu; Madame Doom (villain); Herr Klotz (villain) |
| Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Bull Karten (villain) |
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| Text Story | The Monster (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | The Red Menace has a deadly atomic bomb with which he plans to conquer the world. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: The Red Menace; Wings Wendall; Diane Westcott |
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| Synopsis | Hugh and Bozo track down two spies who shot a security guard in a defense plant. They kidnap an American scientist and force him to make a new explosive. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Kurt; Eric; Alan Hall |
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