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| Publication | January 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly except June and September |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling; Red Rube |
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| Comic Story | Living Shadows (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The professor has invented a projector that makes shadows come to life. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Sergeant Clancy McGinty; Professor Royce |
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| Synopsis | Banana falls asleep after reading about a book about grass as superfood and dreams he has become super strong. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Señor Banana; Stencho Odora |
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| Content | Characters: Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones |
| Notes | Promo for Archie radio show featuring Archie and Jughead standing beneath an umbrella in a rainstorm of letters, thanking listeners for sending letters to the radio stations that carry Archie. |
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| Content | Characters: Black Hood |
| Notes | Promo for the Black Hood radio show airing every night at 5:15 EWT on the WOR Mutual Broadcasting System. |
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| Synopsis | The Applejack boys and Wild Mountain Bill travel to New York, but only have Confederate money to spend. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Slappy Applejack; Happy Applejack; Wild Mountain Bill; Old Confederate General |
| Notes | The woman in the splash panel carrying a purse with the monogram "JGV" appears to be a caricature of MLJ staffer Janice "Ginger" Valleau. Another woman carrying a purse with the monogram "DM" may be another caricature.
Final panel includes text blurb for Archie radio show. |
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| Text Story | Revenge (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Al files his way out of jail to get revenge. |
| Credits | Script: Tommy Tomkins | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Al; Jake; Verna |
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| Synopsis | Ginger and Dotty are driving out to a poultry farm to get eggs for Miss Eclaire. |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Ginger Snapp; Dotty; Principal Grump; Prof. Piddle; Miss Eclaire |
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| Comic Story | Don't Blab (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Red Rube discovers a Nazi spy radio transmitter station. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Red Rube [Rueben Rueben] |
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| Featuring | Zipsy Doodles |
| Notes | Includes quiz about driving laws, two riddles, and image search for things that start with "R." |
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| Synopsis | Chimpy and Genie go over to the comic book factory to get a new idea for their artist, Joe Edwards. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Chimpy; Genie; Super-Duper-Man; Joe Edwards |
| Notes | Final panel includes note from Chimpy asking readers to send him a letter with their thoughts on his story, care of MLJ Magazines, 60 Hudson Street, New York, NY. |
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| Synopsis | Linda is allergic to orchid scent and Wilbur has accidentally dropped an orchid into the punch bowl. |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Wilbur Wilkin; Linda; Red |
| Notes | First Wilbur story with art by Bill Vigoda, who would become the primary artist on "Wilbur" through the end of the 1940s.
First appearances of Red, the Jughead-esque best friend of Wilbur, and Linda Moore, Wilbur's wealthy girlfriend similar to Veronica. Red has yet to develop his love of food, although he expresses disinterest in dating women in the final panel. Linda appears to be wealthy from the size of her party but is not explicitly described as rich.
The plot of this story would be recycled for the text story "Orchids to You" in Wilbur Comics (Archie, 1944 series) #9, which would itself be recycled as an Archie text story in Archie Comics (Archie, 1942 series) #33. |
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