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| Publication | December 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty; Hangman [Bob Dickering] |
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| Featuring | Shield G-Man Club |
| Content | Characters: Shield [Joe Higgins] |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Membership form to join the Shield G-Man Club. |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Joe Higgins] | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Bulletin #6. |
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| Comic Story | Death of a Double (13 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Shield [Joe Higgins]; Senor Hernandez; Ludwig (villain); spies; Senor Hernandez's double (death); Dusty; Ju Ju Watson; Mamie; Fifi (dog); Betty Warren |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hangman [Bob Dickering]; Betruchi (villain, death); Lennie (villain, death); Laval (villain, death); Reinmann |
| Notes | This is most probably Lucey, when comparing with his signed stories in #25 and #29. Notice long rounded chins. |
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| Content | Characters: Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty; Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy the Super Boy [Roy Carter] |
| Notes | House ad for Shield-Wizard Comics #5. |
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| Comic Story | Spumoni the Puppet Master (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Danny; Kupkake; Spumoni (villain, introduction); Snapper (dog) |
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| Comic Story | A Little Detour to France (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sgt. Boyle travels to France to help a young lady rescue her father from the Nazis. |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Sergeant Boyle; Corporal Collins; Nazis |
| Notes | continued in Blue Ribbon Comics (Archie, 1939 series) #20 |
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| Comic Story | The Breakup of the Sky Pirates (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Orders come down reassigning each Sky Pirate to a different squadron. During an intense dogfight, the Sky Pirates break formation from their squadrons to fly together and they manage to thwart the Nazis from bombing London; afterward, the Sky Pirates are officially commissioned by the R.A.F. as the Jolly Roger Squadron. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Nazis; Price; Jolly Roger; Frank Root; Marty Martin |
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| Synopsis | Archie meets Betty, a girl who has just moved into the neighborhood. He shows off for her, claiming he can do anything. At a carnival that weekend, Betty meets a man who needs a tight rope walker. Betty, remembering that Archie can do anything, volunteers Archie with humorous results. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Archie Andrews [Archibald Andrews; Chick]; Betty Cooper; Sam Cooper; Mildred Cooper; Fred Andrews; Edna Andrews; Gramps Andrews; Jughead Jones [Forsythe P. Jones] (introduction for all) |
| Notes | For all the parent characters, only Fred Andrews is identified by name in this story. The other parents' names would change over the years.
Archie and Betty are a few years younger than usual.
First comic story of Archie. First appearance of Betty and Jughead.
Archie and his parents first appeared as a promotional advertisement cameo in Top Notch Comics (Archie, 1940 series) #22 released 5 days prior per Catalog of Copyright Entries. |
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| Comic Story | The Case of Crummy King (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kayo Ward; Crummy King (introduction); Julie King (introduction); Slugs Logan (introduction) |
| Notes | Most probably Seymour, when comparing with his signed stories in #24 to 26. |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Sea Serpent (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Bentley; Foxleigh (villain); Stanley Wade (death); Somerset; Stonebrook; Claude Stonebrook |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Jim |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Ad for a home study program by the Austin Technical Institute to learn how to read blueprints. |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for electric games: football, baseball, basketball, and ice hockey. |
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