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| Publication | May 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Characters: Steel Sterling |
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| Comic Story | The Radium Robbers (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cummings is suspected of stealing all the radium from his own hospital, and his daughter gets the help of detective Sterling. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Walter Cummings (scientist); Dora Cummings (daughter); Black Knight (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mugsy (dog) |
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| Synopsis | The Scarlet Avenger has come to grips with Texa, a beautiful Amazon, the queen of crime. She will use his powerfull brains in her next crime, to snatch the president. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Scarlet Avenger (Jim Kendall); Texa (Villain); President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Comic Story | Slade Bowman's Boast (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Nevada Jones is ordered by the governor to catch the train robber, Slade Bowman. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Nevada Jones; Little Joe (sidekick); Slade Bowman (train bandit); Bud Jones (undercover man) |
| Notes | Art is identical to Volpe's many signed and unsigned Loop Logan stories in Blue Ribbon Comics, from #4. He can be spotted by his very realistic horses in #13, bony faces with marked cheek lines and mouth inked in two short lines. Also the small lines on each side of nose or smiling cheeks. Compare as well his signed London stories in Daredevil Comics #9 and 10 (Lev Gleason) |
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| Synopsis | Kalthar is taken prisoner by the tribe of Shem and taken to their king, Pharoah. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Kalthar; Bwonga; Pharoah; Bogdu (ape) |
| Notes | The art is identical to Pious's signed story in #2. |
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| Comic Story | The Munitions Works Mission (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Eagles blow up a German munitions works but must ditch their planes. |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Tim Shane (pilot); Tom Shane (pilot); Kermit (pilot); Herr Schultz (Villain) |
| Notes | Originally credited to Ed Wexler, but the art is identical to the other signed Smalle stories in this feature. |
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| Text Story | Frontier Tamers (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A two-gun devastator meets his match in a prairie raccoon. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as D.H.M.] (signed) (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? [as D.H.M.] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Western-frontier | Characters: Wanglin (gunman); Tom Smith; Raccoon (mascot) |
| Notes | Two illustrations that have nothing to do with the story. |
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| Comic Story | Yat Sing's Poison Plot (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Valor and Big Dip are led into a trap by a girl named Tania and fall into the hands of Yat Sing, who prepares to execute them. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Valor; Ronnie; his sister Angie; Big Dip; Yat Sing (Villain); Tania (Villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Diamond Cattle Smugglers (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Corn cobs are used to smugglle diamonds. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mr. Satan (Dudley Bradshaw); Doris O'Day (rancher) |
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| Comic Story | The Daughter of the Mermen (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The mermen beneath the sea have sent their great wizard, Magi, to America to bring back a young girl who is their last descendant on earth. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Zambini (magician); Magi (Villain; Introduction) |
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