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| This "Wildfire" story is the most cartoonishly evil thing I've ever read. |
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| Publication | September 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monhly |
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| Cover | A Great Action Story |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Bozo the Robot; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Cyanide and Sabotage (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ray shows great concern for keeping young Bud out of harm's way after the lad witnesses a shooting. However, Bud places himself in danger afterwards when he seeks help from the Secret Service. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Alan Hale (death) |
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| Comic Story | The Oil Well Murder (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Big City experiences a boom in oil, and many people invest their savings in building wells. Then the oil mysteriously begins to peter out, and it takes Midnight to discover that an unscrupulous racketeer has hired men to siphon off much of the oil output. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Alice Taylor; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a talking monkey); Hobbs, Chad, Butch; J. A. Carlson; Sgt. O'Toole |
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| Comic Story | Smoking Will Stunt Your Growth (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie "King" O'Toole |
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| Synopsis | Chuck decides to adopt the dog of one of his ex-foes. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Terry Mills; Mr. Mills; Inspector Mulligan; Scrapper (Lane's dog, introduction) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Last appearnce of Inspector Mulligan. |
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| Synopsis | Lieutenant Jergens and Miss Saxon are attacked on a lonely road. Kent is driving past and helps ward off the assailants, but reasons that it was a set up. Changing to the Invisible Hood he tracks Jergens to the laboratory of Professor Saxon, who is developing a new type of sea craft. Jergens calls in his men and reveals himself to be a spy. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Zergon [aka Lieutenant Jergens] (villain); Professor Saxon, Miss Saxon |
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| Synopsis | Warren makes his entrance into Society, and goes aboard a yacht for a party. Tiny and Rocky follow in a tub and make fun of him, but when Warren dives overboard to pursue a hold-up man, Rocky dives in to help. The trio foil a plot to hold a debutante for ransom. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Warren; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill]; Angela Baker (Dave's date); Curly (villain, introduction); un-named members of Curly's gang (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Angela is the last girl whom Dave Clark dated. |
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| Synopsis | Black X allows himself and Batu to be kidnapped and taken to the lair of arms dealer Franz Wenzel. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Colonel Atwater; Franz Wenzel; Madame Doom (villain); Fritz (villain) |
| Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Synopsis | Wun Cloo finds a murdered man and pursues the killers' car, only to get snagged on the radio aeriel. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo, the Defective Detective; Killer (crook) |
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| Comic Story | The Midville Orphanage Murder (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Silas Raddo runs the Midville Orphanage and decides that if he could get rid of the kids he could pocket the endowment money. Therefore he plans a holiday excursion for the kids aboard a ship that he has rigged to go down in flames. Wildfire saves the kids and then dishes out deadly justice, throwing Raddo into a furnace and blowing up the small boat with his henchmen in it. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Silas Raddo (villain, death) |
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| Synopsis | Wings is assigned to investigate a series of sabotage incidents, thought to be masterminded by international spy Anton Schreck. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Anton Schreck, Karlo; Pete Phillips; Mary Phillips |
| Notes | Out of costume now. |
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| Text Story | Jimmy Solves the Hex (1.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jimmy investigates sabotage at the Brandon mine. |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian; Brandon; Mike Minovitch |
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| Comic Story | The Daily Star Shakedown (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rookie investigates a racket to shake down the Star newspaper. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Rita; Ma Rankin |
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| Synopsis | The evil Topoff and his oriental henchman, Toto, are pursued by Hazzard and Bozo after Toto murders the district attorney using a mystical crucible that allows Topoff to appear and vanish at will. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Akim Topoff (villain, death); Toto (villain) |
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