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| Publication | February 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly except December and June |
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| Cover | Hiram the Hermit |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby |
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| Comic Story | Hiram the Hermit (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hiram the Hermit has the biggest diamond in the world and a pet coyote and he's going to appear on Dave Clark's radio show. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sniffer Snoop; Hotdog; Hiram the Hermit; Oscar the Coyote; the Grover Mob (villains); the Nolan Mob (villains); Dirty John Boonton (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Old Jim (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rankin's perilous plight to retrieve the gold of the old miner. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Old Jim |
| Notes | Originally credited "Witmer Williams ?", but does not match his other credited stories in this features. Compared with Leav's signed story in Power Comics #4, everything matches, face of the policeman, large hands, way of running with high lifted knees and some panels without backgrounds. Only the inking is different. |
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| Comic Story | The Garrison of Ghouls (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X is sent to a Japanese held island to find out why they are determined to hold it at all costs. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Black X; Batu; Kitsune |
| Notes | Originally credited to Bernard Sachs, but this is a different artist from the stories signed by him. The ears here are much larger and goes down beneath the nose, while Sachs makes them more angular with small flip and never extended so far down. The layout here is simpler too, and Sachs has more masculine faces than this. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo |
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| Synopsis | The Marksman continues his fight with the Nazis in Brazil taking his friend Anna along with him. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Anna; the Nazis (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Jollity Theater Affair (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | While searching for spies, Brenda finds herself forced on stage as an exotic dancer, and discovers that the balloon dancers at the Jollity Theatre are passing secrets on to the enemy. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Peecolo; Zelda |
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| Text Story | Drip Van Winkle (1.8 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Dewey Van Winkle; Capt. Angus MacCloud |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership Management Circulation |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | Archie, the king, designs a new paper airplane. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Archie O'Toole (king) |
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| Comic Story | Losing Weight (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Daffy drinks a magic tonic that makes her lose weight. All of it. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy; Deke; Hoodoo Hoops; Rose Ann Rowley |
| Notes | Art is consistent with Stein’s signed Daffy art from Smash Comics #52 (April 1944). Previous indexer attributed the art to Bart Tumey. |
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| Synopsis | The daughter of Mr. Miles is kidnapped. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Mr. Miles; Louise Miles; Shrimp Twist (villain); Miggins (villain) |
| Notes | This is probably Leav as it is very similar to his signed stories in Wanted Comics (Wanted-Orbit, 1947 series) #52. |
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