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| Publication | December 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every month |
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| Cover | Victims of the Super-Ape |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Sheena; Bob Reynolds |
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| Comic Story | Victims of the Super-Ape (12 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as W. Morgan Thomas] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Chim; Panzee; Orang; Reginald Barrows; Colonel Picard; Sergeant Korilenko; Memsa Siba; Luigi; A giant gorilla |
| Notes | Powell signs in the final panel. |
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| Featuring | Bobby |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Bobby; Shoyn Du, Mr. Von Snitzel; Mr. De Flicker |
| Notes | This is a parody of Little Nemo. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: The Hawk; Lord Conway; Jeremy; Carlos Sandos; Bruce |
| Notes | Retelling of The Hawk's origin.
Per Mort Leav, Art Saaf was given old Eisner material and assigned to re-write, re-compose, and fill in the gaps to create "new" Eisner Hawk stories (Robin Snyder's The Comics). |
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| Comic Story | Sabotage (8 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Teller Tayles] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lightning [Fred Larkin]; General Larkin; Mr. Morrose; Voneer |
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| Text Story | The 13th Notch (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Big Buck Conovan; Weasel; Rattler Vito (crook) |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Golly] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Peter Pupp; Zula; Budah; Tinymite |
| Notes | "By Golleh" on previous episodes is here spelled "By Golly" as if to explain the joke. |
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| Synopsis | Somewhere in the past Stuart Taylor has to rescue Dr. Hayward and Laura from the clutches of Queen Starina and her wizard. |
| Featuring | Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural |
| Credits | Script:? [as Curt Davis] (credited) | Pencils: Iger/Eisner shop | Inks: Iger/Eisner shop |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Stuart Taylor; Doctor Hayward; Laura; Queen Starina; Lina (death) |
| Notes | Tuska, Celardo, Cardy, and perhaps others - someone swiping Lou Fine or doing a decent imitation. Possibly collaged from earlier strips a la "Hawk." See "Inspector Dayton" later in this issue. Bill Black reports the artist as being Lou Fine in Golden-Age Men of Mystery #12. |
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| Featuring | Pee Wee |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pee Wee Myers; Mr. Bore |
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| Comic Story | Burglars |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Uncle Otto |
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| Featuring | ZX-5 Spies In Action |
| Credits | Script:? [as Morgan Thomas] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: ZX-5; Operator 22; Baron Rathskull; Otto |
| Notes | Other hands at work including Art Peddy, R.L. Golden? Possibly collaged from earlier episodes. Note also the "W. Morgan Thomas" loses his first initial in this episode. |
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| Featuring | Wilton of the West |
| Credits | Script:? [as Fred Sande] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Wiley Wilton; Samuel Carson; Steve |
| Notes | "Fred" Sande returns. |
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| Featuring | Inspector Dayton |
| Credits | Script:? [as George Thatcher] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Inspector Dayton; Mongi Lin; Doctor Sung; Wini; Martha |
| Notes | This resembles a very early Bob Powell style and some panels are certainly collaged from earlier strips. The car in the first two panels of page two is traced from the ZX-5 story in Jumbo #10, for instance. |
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| Comic Story | Introducing Tom Dick and Harry (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Tom Dick and Harry |
| Credits | Script:? [as Charles Tansul] |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dick Swenson (First Appearance); Tom Devlin (First Appearance); Harry Carson (First Appearance); Sally |
| Notes | "Tansul" is "Sultan" spelled sideways. |
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