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| Publication | February 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Midnight vs. Bullets Balow |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Robustia |
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| Comic Story | Midnight vs. Bullets Balow (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Midnight plunged off a cliff, he finds himself in a circus in the Land of Flight, where he meets Velvet and Robustia, the Queen of Flight. They send him on his way in a rocket that disappears once he reaches home safely. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Robustia; Velvet; Bullets Balow (villain) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | The Battle of the Solomon Islands (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Baroness Elzia (villain) |
| Notes | Writer credits by Craig Delich.
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 | Another Iron Man (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A genius inventor creates a rather bumbling version of Bozo, which he could inhabit, much like Hazzard inhabited Bozo. However, Bozo soon proved that the Iron Man's suit was second rate, and Whipple manages to escape just before a group of mobsters blow it to kingdom come. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Homer Twipple (inventor); Iron Man (Twipple's invention, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Crossbow (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Marksman meets his match with his Nazi arch-foe, Cross Bow, who had killed several members of Povalski's resistence, and even took a bolt to the stomach from his enemy's weapon. However, he was saved by a protector made of cork that he wore under his costume, and the fight came down to fisticuffs, which the Baron won. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; The Cross Bow (villain) |
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| Comic Story | A Destroyer Is Launched (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ray witnesses a new Destroyer being sunk. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud |
| Notes | Final appearance of The Ray feature at Quality Comics. The feature will be revived by DC Comics in Black Lightning (DC, 1977 Series) #11 (September-October 1978).
Final Golden Age appearance of the Ray [Happy Terrill] character. Next appearance is in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 Series) #107 (September-October 1973). |
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| Comic Story | Commando Invasion Practice (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Comic Story | Hoodlums, Inc. (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Sergeant Hustace McGinty; Gurgles (villain) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Master Criminal Marak (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rankin; Marak |
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| Text Story | Black Bouchard (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery |
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| Comic Story | The Crow (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; The Crow |
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