| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: The Black Phantom |
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| Text Article | Winners of the August Popular Comics Contest |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On inside front cover in black, white and red. |
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| Text Article | Winners of July Contest |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On inside front cover in black and white. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Toby; Oomog; Booey; Titus Wad (first appearance) |
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| Advertisement | Push-Button Railroading |
| Featuring | The Lionel Corporation |
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| Text Article | Winners of the July Popularity Poll |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Dinny |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Martan the Marvel Man (first appearance, origin); Vana (first appearance, origin) |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: The Hurricane Kids [Alan Burnham; Dave Burnham]; Maya (first appearance); Omu (first appearance) |
| Notes | Maya and Omu are named in Popular Comics #47. |
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| Comic Story | "Well, Herky, what do you think of your new sister by this time? (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Herky's mother asks him what he really thinks of his baby sister. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Honey; Herky's mother |
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| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: John Winston (first appearance); Pete Baxter (first appearance); Tony Carter (first appearance); The Red Hood Gang [Dutch Orlando (villain); Kid Grant (villain); Spike Morganti (villain, death)] |
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| Synopsis | Herky finds out he just got a baby sister. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Herky's father |
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| Comic Story | The Mystery of Mr. Wong [Part 4] (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Janney is revealed as the murderer. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Mr. Wong; Sgt. Street; Officer Flaherty; Officer Morgan; Professor Janney (villain); Valerie Edwards; Peter Harrison; Count Alexis Petrovitch [as Ivan Strogonoff] (identity revealed); Sing; Mr. Carslake |
| Notes | Fourth chapter of a four-part adaptation of the 1939 Monogram Pictures movie "The Mystery of Mr. Wong" starring Boris Karloff. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Pete [also as Coyote Pete]; Wheezie; Bullneck the Terrible |
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| Synopsis | The Masked Pilot battles the Black Phantom. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: The Masked Pilot; Tom; The Black Phantom (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Shark Egan; Ace O'Doul; Mary McDermot; Kanaka Lew; Captain Mai Ti; Angkar; One-Eye Wendel [J. Wendel]; Grampus; Mr. Grype (villain); Koye (villain); Red Mack (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Tailspin Tommy [Tommy Tomkins]; Skeets Milligan; Betty Lou Barnes; Paul Smith; Professor Otto Bumgartner; Miss Stanley; Mrs. Wilson; Jeems; Mr. Plotz; Mr. Trevor; Slade; Mr. Dunforth |
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| Comic Story | Penguin Pete at the Luna Park (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Penguin Pete; Pudgie; Wilbur (a pig) |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Rudy; Billy; Charlie Kangaroo |
| Notes | Signed in last panel. You can only read part of the "g" and the "e" from George, and the "rbo" from Scarbo. The "o" is stylized with a vertical line going above and below the "o." |
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| Advertisement | Miscellaneous Advertisements |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Captain Tornado (first appearance); Professor Bordani (first appearance); Jane Bordani (first appearance) |
| Notes | According to Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., Hames Ware identified Newt Alfred as the artist for the story in Popular Comics #49. The art in this story looks very similar to the art in that story, especially the silhouettes of Jane on the first page in each story. |
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| Activity | Calling All Boys - and Girls! Be a Gang Buster! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Popular Comics Gang Buster Contest |
| Notes | On inside back cover in black, white and red. |
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| Advertisement | Boys, Girls! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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