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| Publication | October 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Masked Pilot |
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| Advertisement | Boys and Girls! Enter This Big Contest! (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Whitman Publishing Company |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos) | Inks:? (photos) |
| Notes | Contest for readers of Better Little Books.
On inside front and back covers in black, white and red. |
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| Comic Story | The McCoy Gang! Slot Machine Racket Murderers. (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Detective Chief Cal Yorke; Detective Len Gates; Detective Johnny Marvin; Officer Tom Baker (death); Officer Larry McMillan (death); W. J. Kuehl; Ralph Hadley; Ned Wade; Mrs. Jarvis; The McCoy Gang [Bob McCoy (villain); Eddie McCoy (villain, death); Nick Ryan (villain)]; Soapy (villain) |
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| Cartoon | Born Thirty Years Too Soon; The Cruel World |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
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| Cartoon | Heroes are Made-Not Born; Born Thirty Years Too Soon |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: The Masked Pilot; Tom; Stephan (villain) |
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| Activity | Popular Crossword Puzzles by Our Readers (1.33 pages) |
| Featuring | Popular Crossword Puzzles |
| Notes | Crossword puzzles submitted by Richard Stoll and Catherine Alassi.
Answers are at the bottom of page 57. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Herky's mother |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Noodles Nelson [Percy] |
| Notes | Noodles is called Percy in this story. Not sure if it's his real name or if it was a slur because the other kids were teasing him. |
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| Comic Story | The Mystery of Mr. Wong [Part 2] (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Mr. Wong; Professor Janney; Brandon Edwards (death); Valerie Edwards; Peter Harrison; Ivan Strogonoff; Drina |
| Notes | Second 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: Humor |
| Notes | Four single panel cartoons. |
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| Text Story | The Flying Wolf! (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: John Morley; Jeff Morley; Kitty Morley |
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| Comic Story | G-Men vs the Living Masks (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Larry Lane; Miss Walker; Blinky Mathews (villain); Dr. Toro (villain) |
| Notes | Signed in last panel. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Honey (Herky's sister) |
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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; Jeems; Mr. Dunforth; Reverend Meek; Mrs. Wilson; Mr. Plotz; Mr. Trevor; Mr. Holt; Slade |
| Notes | Strips in the previous issues were numbered. These would be strips 451-455. |
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| Activity | Gang Busters' Crime Clues Contest (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Popular Comics Gang Buster Contest |
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| Synopsis | Ben Hur's mother and sister are released from prison. |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Ben Hur; Iras; Messala; Malluch; Ilderim; Thord; Pontius Pilate; Tirzah; Ben Hur's mother; Amrah; Simonides; Esther |
| Notes | Seventh chapter of a seven-part adaptation of the novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" by Lew Wallace. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Honey; Noodles Nelson |
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| Synopsis | Tex Thorne finally captures Clamp Hackett and his gang. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Zane Grey] |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tex Thorne; Topaz (a horse); Jane Hoskins; Jimmy Hoskins; Jerky; Jack Parsons; Clamp Hackett (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Episode 7 (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Hurricane Kids [Alan Burnham; Dave Burnham]; Dawson (corpse) |
| Notes | DU BOIS IDENTIFIERS:
Nautical vocabulary:
"ships-launch."
This appears to be the first assignment Lebeck has given Du Bois as house writer, the first Du Bois script assigned him by Lebeck and published in this October issue. Several more scripts soon followed for other features appearing in December cover dated Dell comics. |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Advertisement | A Bike For You |
| Featuring | The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company |
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| Featuring | Popular Stamp Club |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | hobby |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Pete; Babs Dalton; Willie; Judge Avery; Abe Dalton (a skeleton); Spade Carson (villain); Bat Wilson (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four single panel cartoons. |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Rudy |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Shark Egan; Ace O'Doul; Mary McDermot; Kanaka Lew; Mai Ti; Angkar; Red Mack (villain) |
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| Cartoon | Heroes Are Made Not Born; Why Mothers Get Gray |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
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| Cartoon | No Road Signs; Flops |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
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| Comic Story | At the World's Fair (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Penguin Pete; Pudgie |
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| Advertisement | 30 Shot Automatic Repeater!! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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