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| Publication | July 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty [Dusty Simmons]; The Hangman [Robert Dickering] |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Kid Lookout (13 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty [Dusty Simmons]; Slats Gordon; Mrs. Gordon; Senator Blowhard; Blinker (villain); Blinker's gang (villains) |
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| Synopsis | John "The Comet" Dickering sees his brother Bob being kidnapped by a couple of Big Boy Malone's men and flies to his aid, but is shot and killed in the process. Bob swears revenge and becomes The Hangman. When Chugger is found not guilty because John Dickering isn't alive to testify against him, the Hangman hustles Chugger out of the courtroom and subjects him to his own methods of extracting a confession, all leading to the execution of Big Boy Malone. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Hangman [Bob Dickering] (the Comet's brother, origin); The Comet [John Dickering] (death); Thelma Gordon (John's sweetheart); Big Boy Malone (villain, death); Chugger (villain) |
| Notes | Death (and final Golden Age appearance) of the Comet [John Dickering], who returns in The Adventures of the Fly (Archie, 1960 series) #30 (October 1964).
Both Shorten and Sundell may have used the house name Cliff Campbell according to Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Prisoners of the Cyclops (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Danny; a giant cyclops (villain); Kupkake; Margie |
| Notes | story swiped from Homer's "Odyssey." |
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| Comic Story | Trapped by the Fuzzy Wuzzies (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Sergeant Boyle [Henry Boyle]; Corporal Collins; Capt. Twerp; the Fascists; "Fuzzy Wuzzies" |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Fireball [Ted Tyler]; a gang of smugglers (villains) |
| Notes | The faces here, with prominent cheekbones could be Lucey. Art looks like his credited story Madam Satan in #16, and signed story in Crime Does Not Pay #22. |
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| Comic Story | The Corruption of Carl Jensen (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Using the sinister name Iola and dressing in a slinky dress, Madam Satan lures Carl Jensen away from his true love, Anita, and is soon completely in the toils of the creature of the netherworld, beginning a mad and expensive orgy of merrymaking. All too soon, he is goaded into a life of crime, being asked by "Iola" to shower her with expensive gifts, even if he had to steal them. After beating up his father and shooting Anita, Carl comes to her senses....then sees "Iola" as she really was: her face a grinning, green skull! |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Carl Jensen, Anita Lewis; Mr. and Mrs. John Jensen (Carl's parents); Brother Sunbeam; Satan (villain); Madam Satan [Iola] (villain) |
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| Publisher advertisement | Special Offering for Pep Comics Fans (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The other characters in Pep Comics welcome The Hangman. |
| Featuring | Pep Comics |
| Content | Characters: The Shield; Dusty; The Hangman; Ju Ju Watson; Bentley; The Fireball (cameo); Madam Satan; Sgt. Boyle; Twerp; Danny; Kupkake |
| Notes | Also promo for pinup of Steel Sterling on the back cover. |
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| Synopsis | On his wedding day, Kayo's face is badly burned. Ashamed of his scarred face, he flees and becomes a hobo. While on a train he befriends a man who has tuberculosis. To get money to have him treated, Kayo fights a local fighter in a small town. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kayo Ward [Eddie Ward]; Slug (villain); Rip |
| Notes | Kayo's scarred face is never shown. |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Parachute Killer (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Inspector Bentley; Roger Kimberley (villain); Sir Archibald Waverley (death), Linda Waverley; John Waverley; Reginald Waverley; Jarvis (a butler) |
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| Illustration | Steel Sterling pin-up (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Looney; Dora Cummings; Sergeant Clancy |
| Notes | Found on the back cover. |
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