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| Publication | April 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Midnight: Whoever Dares Solve This Murder Will Die before Morning... |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Hot Foot (a polar bear); Gabby (a monkey) |
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| Comic Story | Sniffer Snoop (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sniffer Snoop and Hot Foot show up uninvited because Sniffer thinks Midnight is smart enough to be his assistant. But Doc can't stand him and plots to get rid of him. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop (detective, introduction); Hot Foot (a polar bear, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Kidnapping of Brenda Banks (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Count DeChange is broke and wants to marry Brenda Banks for the money, so he plans to stage a fake fight to appear like a knight in shining armor. However, some crooks kidnap her hoping to cash in on a large ransom from the Count. Although she is caught without her mask and costume, she fools her captors into thinking that Lady Luck has snuck into their lair. As the Police take her battered quarry away, Lady Luck leaves a new calling card behind: the ace of diamonds. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count DeChange [Count DiChange]; Mr. Fatning |
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| Comic Story | Dead Pigeons Tell No Tales! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X meets a clever and ruthless antagonist inside his own front lines. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Black X; Batu; General Strickland; Colonel Winton (villain) |
| Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
Art credits from Roy Thomas in Alter Ego #133 (June, 2015). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Comic Story | Here Lies the Marksman (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Nazis have reported The Marksman for dead, and are up to some new dirty tricks. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Marksman Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Major Grummel (villain) |
| Notes | Identical art to Guarineer's many other signed stories in this feature. A bit sleepy faces with many short, thin vertical inklines on the cheeks, and ears with a "questionmark" inside. |
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| Synopsis | A daring carnival murderer pitted against Rookie Rankin. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Sam Seift; the Tattooed Man; |
| Notes | The inks here are too much of a caricaturist nature to be Williams' own. They distort his drawings a great deal. |
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| Synopsis | Larry is a stuntman on a set filming action scenes in the land of the Khan. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; The Khan |
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| Text Story | Madagascar Interlude (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian; Toby Sanders; Agut (native trailer) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo (detective) |
| Notes | Art similar to stories signed Ralph Johns, pen name for Jack Cole. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons |
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| Synopsis | Lady Satan deduces the dual identity of Chuck Lane and attempts to blackmail him into helping her commit crimes. At first he pretends to go along with her scheme but fools her in the end. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Lady Satan (villain) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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