| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | We Give You Midnight! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Jumping Bean Abduction (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | An old "friend" of Doc Wackey is causing trouble afflicting a town with a formula that causes its people to bounce like rubber. Meanwhile, Porgie kidnaps millionaire ex-circus star Waldo Whiz to finance his experiments, one of which is a trip to a planet made of solid gold, while another potion turns Wackey back into a criminal. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Waldo Whiz (introduction); Professor Porgie (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Tashayoka (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X slips into Tokyo during the Doolitte bombing in order to seduce Japanese actress and spy Tashayoka. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tashayoka (villain) |
| Notes | Writer credits by Craig Delich.
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 | The Fun-Dictator fires Pansy "The Queen of Burlesque" and hires a new "official dancer to the court" who doesn't appeal to King Archie. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Archie O'Toole; Pansy Gaga |
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| Comic Story | The Sextuplets (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | One of six identically dressed mobsters pulls a bank robbery, but the question is: which one? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; the Sextuplets (villains) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Synopsis | Helene Bennett thinks she killed Monte Rose, so she tries to jump off a building. But Wildfire has other ideas. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wildfire; Helene Bennett; Blair Niles |
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| Comic Story | Wanted! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Two Nazis try to frame Bozo for murder. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Carl; Fritz |
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| Comic Story | The Khan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Happy is kidnapped by Mongols and taken to Russia, where his plane is shot down, his captor killed, who leaves a map with his plans behind. The Ray discovers a special Russian division called the Flame Troops who have been trained by The Khan, a descendant of Genghis and Kublai Khan, both of whom had great strength and mystical knowledge. The Khan waylays the Ray long enough to lay siege to Moscow, but, when the Ray recovers, he throws the Khan to his doom from the top of St. Basil's Cathedral. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; The Khan (villain, introduction, death); Petrov (villain); Ileana Kamova (villain) |
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| Synopsis | A woman gives Rookie her baby to hold, and then disappears. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Ma Rankin; Spike; Big Jim Donnell |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery |
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| Synopsis | The Nazis try to steal the proceeds of a Red Cross show. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Warren; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill]; Carl (villain); Adolph (villain) |
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| Text Story | Murder Never Pays (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Izan (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Nazi planes have been smuggled into America and now they're bombing Philadelphia. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Izan; Captain Grutz |
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| Comic Story | Zita (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | In order to get out of a Nazi function, the Baron purposely crashes a plane and has Vorka declare him to be unfit for military duty. Then, as the Marksman, he meets the Nazi General with TNT-laden arrows, blowing his train off the tracks. Finally, a girl that the Baron once knew as a child is now working for the underground, and he has to rescue her from the Nazis, hiding her out in his tower hideaway. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Zita; General Feutchwarr (villain) |
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