| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Characters: Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Ad for various mail order rings, talismans and charms. |
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| Comic Story | The Stars Drip Blood (14 pages) |
| Content | Characters: Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Scorpio; Dutch Gordon; Strecchi; Sgt. McGinty; Clancy; Barbara Sutton |
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| Synopsis | The Nazi Bund is forcing German-Americans to join them and contribute large sums of money. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy the Super-Boy; Nazi Bund; Mr. Schultz; Heinrich; Jane Barlow |
| Notes | This must be Lucey when comparing the close-up front view faces with ears directed outwards, as in his signed Hangman Special Case No.5 in #2. |
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| Synopsis | A meeting place for spies and plotters in Iran. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Fran Frazer (photographer); Hal Davis (reporter); Premier Kherman |
| Notes | Originally credited to Irv Novick, but the movement of the figures are too stiff and awkward, and none of his faces are found here. Notice inking and the narrow pointed ears, which can be found in some other stories in Fran Frazer and Zambini, Zip Comics #23. |
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| Synopsis | A bridge washes out trapping a bus full of kids in a valley, including General Rael's son. |
| Content | Characters: Keith Kornell; General Rael |
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| Synopsis | Masters and Harlow are partners in a pearl bed. Masters schemes to buy out Linda's share of the pearl bed by making the endeavor unprofitable. |
| Content | Characters: Firefly [Harley Hudson]; Shark-Man [Lobrow]; Mr. Masters; Linda Harlow |
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| Synopsis | The Kid is to fight against a big gorilla. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: St. Louis Kid [Jim Jennings]; Robert Dykes; Willis; Molloy; Vic Gouno |
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| Publisher advertisement | Wilbur in December Zip Comics, Archie in December Pep Comics, They're a Riot! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wilbur; Archie |
| Credits | Script: Sy Reit? (promo copy) | Pencils: Sy Reit (signed) | Inks: Sy Reit (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Wilbur Wilkin; J. Frank Wilkin; unnamed police officer; Archie Andrews [Archibald Andrews; Chick]; Fred Andrews; Edna Andrews |
| Notes | Promotional advertisement the December releases of Wilbur in Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) #21 and Archie's feature start in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) #22.
Archie has dark hair in this promotional advertisement.
First cameo appearance in comic books of Archie (Top Notch Comics #22 released 5 days prior to Pep Comics #22 per the Catalog of Copyright Entries). Not a preview but specific artwork done for this promo only and not reprinted in Pep Comics. Reit's signature in lower left hand corner. |
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| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Wings Johnson; Henry Higgins |
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| Synopsis | Bob Phantom saves a man from a falling steel girders. It was meant to kill him by "accident". |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]; Jinx Friday (secretary); Charlie Adams; Bugs Stanley (racketeer) |
| Notes | Originally credited to Bernard Klein, but this has none of his small heads with angry eyebrows in sideview. It is identical to King's signed stories in #19. |
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| Featuring | Jackpot Comics #3 |
| Content | Characters: Steel Sterling; Clancy; Looney; Sgt. Boyle; Corporal Collins; Black Hood [Kip Burland] |
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| Synopsis | A daughter of one of the richest men in America was given the bounce when she married young Blane. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Kardak; Jeff Blane; Sally Blane; Cyrus Malcolm (millionaire); Ellen; Purnell |
| Notes | Originally credited to Paul Reinman, but no wedge shaped faces with eyes out of line here. The art is similar to Montana's signed St. Louis Kid story, and he is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Red Ryder |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Ad for Daisy air rifles and for a Daisy catalog. |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:?; Fred Harman (signed);? (photographs) | Inks:?; Fred Harman (signed);? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Red Ryder; Gene Autry (photograph); Sonja Henie (photograph) |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad by the American Specialty Co. |
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