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| Publication | January 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Bozo the Robot; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Midget Train Robbers (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | After his transformation into the Ray, Happy hastily insists that his old self was "dead", but soon resumed his career as a newspaper reporter, trailing a band of old vaudeville freaks who are in alliance with one Miss White. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Miss White and her seven dwarves (villains, introduction for all, all die) |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Warren; Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd]; Billy Watts (introduction, death); Rajah Fakir (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | Crashing the Concentration Camp (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Lloyd Nelson; Anna Monfried; |
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| Comic Story | The Story of Sunyan Tse (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Abdul; Hassan; Sunyan Tse, Princess Mulan, Li Yao, Shah Aturk, Ali Beni |
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| Comic Story | The Accident Faker (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery |
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| Comic Story | The Return of Dr. Von Thorp (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bozo's creator, von Thorp, returns after freeing himself from prison, and reclaims the robot by inventing a device which overrides Hazzard's own controls. Hazzard overcomes this obstacle by once again hiding in the robot, which returns to the evil doctor's lair. However, this time von Thorp is not fooled, captures Hazzard and throws him into a flooded room, where he survives by using a pipe as a straw to breath fresh air. Hazzard reassumes control of the robot, von Thorp flees and is shot to death by the Police. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Dr. Von Thorp (villain, death); Runty (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Battle of Bermuda (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Admiral Jepson; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | 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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| Synopsis | Thurston must face the evil Dr. Moku, who has invented a special light that makes the Invisible Hood visible. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Dr. Moku (villain, introduction) |
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| Synopsis | The Scarlet Seal is successful in negotiating a resolution of the conflict between two Chinese tongs to prevent a war between them. The war had been promoted by a fifth columnist who was killed in the end by the Chinese, but the Seal takes the blame for the killing. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed) | Pencils:? [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed) | Inks:? [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Scarlet Seal (Barry Moore); Captain Pat Moore; Nicky Nessen (villain, introduction, death); Sing Lee (villain, death); Manchu Sing (villain); the Hip Leong Tong (villains); the On Sing Tong (villains) |
| Notes | Manchu Sing is a ringer for Fu Manchu. |
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| Text Story | Aces for Death (1.75 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Printed in Cleveland, Ohio
Publisher: Everett M. Arnold 198 Shore Rd, Old Greenwich, Conn
Editor Edward Cronin 322 Main St, Stamford, Conn.
Owner: Everett M. Arnold 198 Shore Rd, Old Greenwich, Conn |
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| Comic Story | The Madness Serum (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Spinner Benson; Wescott; Diane; Dr. Blade |
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| Comic Story | Lover's Island (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Toole |
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| Synopsis | Midnight investigates shoddy construction projects that have been built by a man named Carleton after the collapse of a building owned by Carleton. Carleton captured Midnight and tied him to a crumbling dam......but Midnight escaped when the dam cracked, and he then warned the town below, captured Carleton and secured $10 million for the town's relief. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight (Dave Clark)(radio spot announcer, introduction); Morris Carleton (villain, building owner, introduction) |
| Notes | No origin is given for this character. Busy Arnold asked Cole to create a Spirit knock-ff, and this was it. Cole visited Will Eisner, who was not really thrilled with what Cole had been asked to do, but understood the situation. Cole made a deliberate attempt to make Midnight an entirely different feature from the Spirit, and this character was a perfect warm-up for Cole's later creation: Plastic Man. |
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| Synopsis | Magno pursues a goon by diving into the depths of a swamp where he discovers a labyrinth holding dozens of prisoners that have been transformed by a madman. Magno overthrows this man and destroys the complex with his magnetic powers. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Magno [Tom Dalton]; unnamed goon (villain, death) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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