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| Publication | September 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | Twelve Hours to Live! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark] |
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| Comic Story | Twelve Hours to Live! (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Potts thinks he has 12 hours to live, so he's going to spend it killing everyone who was ever mean to his cats. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Dr. R.X. Diapetos; Cyril Potts (villain) |
| Notes | Story title taken from the cover. |
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| Comic Story | The Yokukasa Brothers (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Japanese statesmen, imprisoned since the start of the war, attempt to escape by using their skills as acrobats. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Sgt. Sloburn; Yokukasa Brothers (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Good Neighbor Policy (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Senor Diego Otilla; Tailspin Todd |
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| Comic Story | Adventure in India (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Black X; Batu |
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| Comic Story | Mystery of the Green Dragon (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rankin was an innocent bystander to the death of two people. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Light Finger Lefty |
| Notes | Originally credited "Rudy Palais ?", but Palais has a very marked line from the eye down the cheek in sideview and also a peculiar blot as nostril not connected to the wing of the nose. Not him here.
The art is identical to William's other credited stories in this feature, #40 and #41, and his signed "Eagle Evans" story in Police Comics #1. Most faces in nearly frontview with only one ear showing, and very large rounded jaw and chin are special. |
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| Synopsis | King Archie reads a book on "How to Win and Control People" but the book's advice doesn't prove helpful with a hostile ambassador. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Archie O'Toole |
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| Synopsis | As the Baron spends less and less time as Major Hurtz, he inevitably learns for himself the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Marksman goes so far as to hunt down a particularly hated Nazi officer named Colonel Sondra, who attempts to escape from the Marksman by offering his services to Japan. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Colonel Sondra (villain) |
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| Text Story | The Mole Men (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery |
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| Comic Story | A Triumph of Mind over Matter (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Daffy takes a course to increase her brain power. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy Dill; C. Pott |
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| Synopsis | Mischa McBeth is murdered in a locked room with no windows, but there's no gun, and it's driving McGinty crazy. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Mischa McBeth (death); Horatio Hubdub (villain) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
This was Gustavson's last work on this feature. |
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