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| NOTE - this is the RAW scan version of SS#17.
You can also find a colour Edit version of the same book on DCM at this link -
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=18300 |
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| Publication | December 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Featuring | Captain Battle; Silver Streak |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Silver Streak; Meteor [Mickey O'Toole] |
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| Featuring | Laffs |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | The Death Ray (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | A group of men appear to be vampires, but are revealed to be simply Nazis wearing glider wings. |
| Content | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Dr. Dracula (intro; death); Professor Fosdick |
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| Comic Story | The Duke of Pyewk (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Pirate Prince drops anchor and a party goes ashore to get tree trunks to replace a broken spar. They are attacked by a group of violent natives, but are saved by a large gorilla, who is taken aboard and named Bombo. Some time later, Prince visits Lady Marie, only to find she is betrothed to the Duke of Pyewk. Prince saves Marie and substitutes Bombo in her wedding dress and face-covering veil. At the wedding ceremony Pyewk lifts the veil to kiss the bride and gets the shock of his life. |
| Featuring | The Pirate Prince |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: The Pirate Prince; Lady Marie; The Duke of Pyewk |
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| Comic Story | The Moving Idol (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Golden Bullet fails to respond to Cloud's piloting and crash lands in the South American jungle. Traveling on foot, Cloud encounter crocodiles, pythons and other jungle dangers, but eventually comes to a clearing, where there is large idol of Ratzinatzi, the demon god of the ancient Incas. Before his eyes the statue moves backwards. |
| Featuring | Cloud Curtis |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Cloud Curtis |
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| Comic Story | The Sea of Death (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bobby, Billy, Dusty and Specs are traveling home on board of a liner, when through a porthole Count Buloe spots Dusty with the fabled sword of Genghis Khan. Billy and Bobby thwart his plans to steal it. His henchmen approach in a small craft and Dusty makes the count gesture for them to approach, at which point they are captured. |
| Featuring | The Bingham Boys |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Bobby Bingham; Billy Bingham; Dusty Travis; Specs; Count Buloe |
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| Text Story | Captain Battle's Gamble With Death, or, Saving a Wretched Life (3 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle]; Hale Battle; Richard Blaine |
| Notes | Text story with two illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | The Kingdom of the Ghoul (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Daredevil [Bart Hill]; The Ghoul (intro); Tonia Saunders |
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| Featuring | Men On Patrol |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Comic Story | The Glitter Girl and the Hillbilly (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Presto Martin, "Quick Change Detective" |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Detective-mystery | Characters: Captain Presto Martin; Mr. Goldbyn; Rose Marie Hatchett; Amos L. Hokum |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost Ships (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Dickie Dean, the Boy Inventor |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dickie Dean; "Zip" Todd |
| Notes | The Who's Who give Fred West as a pen name for Schwab, while comparison with other signed Schwab work seems to confirm it.
The final panel shows "Zip" reading a newspaper. One of the headlines reads "Daredevil Saves President". |
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| Comic Story | The Reign of Death (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Silver Streak and Meteor respond to a report telling of Nazis overrunning a South American nation. |
| Featuring | Silver Streak & Meteor |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Silver Streak; Meteor |
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