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| If you were tripping on the overdone inking that Art Adams had in 80s and then later McFarlane but you knew their art was full of mistakes, then I think you'll love this. Pretty much all the features, though especially Ray, Jester and the Rookie, have so much texture rendering. This sure is educational. I had no clue pulp comics artwork was this elaborate then.
Initially clicked on this series to see how crappy Bozo Robot would be. What a surprise. |
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| Publication | October 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Comic Story | The Atom Smasher (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ray battles fifth columnists who have a mobile atom-smasher that can turn people into liquid or dust, and also has the capability to immobilze the Ray. |
| Credits | Script:? [as E. Lectron] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Bud; Dr. Kompf (villain); Hugo (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Good Neighborliness (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X battles Madame Doom in Mexico. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Batu; Shulman; Colonel Atwater; Madame Doom (villain) |
| Notes | The script was originally credited to Will Eisner.
Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43). |
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| Comic Story | You are to Join the Army (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie; Stanislouse |
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| Synopsis | The Jester breaks up a robbery at the ball and meets socialite Jean Waldorf, who immediately takes a liking to Chuck Lane. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Detective Hustace McGinty; Jean Waldorf (socialite, introduction); Purdy Stone (villain) |
| Notes | In this story, Inspector Mulligan was replaced with Detective McGinty, who was identical in appearance to the Inspector. |
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| Comic Story | The Fire Cult (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Fire-Devil |
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| Synopsis | The Trio splits up to look for work but are reunited in a three-way collision. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd] |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost of Robin Hood (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A former millionaire becomes the ghost of Robin Hood, targeting the rich to help the poor.....namely, himself! When Midnight attempts to stop him, the crime fighter is tagged in the back with a deadly arrow! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Van Topps; The Ghost of Robin Hood [Mr. Mills] (villain, former millionaire) |
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| Synopsis | Wings puts a stop to an enemy germ warfare plan. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spinner Benson; Captain Kargas |
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| Synopsis | Rookie uncovers terrorists planning to plant bombs throughout the city. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Igor; Sgt. Burns |
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| Text Story | The Secret of the Mountain (1.5 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Pencils:? (story logo art) | Inks:? (story logo art) | Colors:? (story logo colors) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo (detective) |
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| Synopsis | The Hood follows some oddly-dressed thugs through the city of Metropolis to an underground lair where he finds a hidden city, the White Wizard's domain. When faced with defeat, the Wizard escapes before his city explodes. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dr. Bond; The White Wizard (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | The White Wizard will appear again in Smash #30, the only one of the Hood's foes to appear more than once. |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dr. Ezra Cade; Zork; Gibbles; Hitz |
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