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| Publication | November 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; Connie [George Webster Confucius] |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt |
| Notes | On inside front cover in red & black.
Copyright 1938 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack [Jack Martin]; Fat Stuff; Downwind Jaxon; Inspector; Mary Smith; Mummy Smith; Hop (villain) |
| Notes | Copyright 1938 by the Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | The Return of Robin Hood [Episode 3] (12 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Robin Hood [Robert]; Sir Guy De Beaupre (death) |
| Notes | Gaylord Du Bois script credit for Return of Robin Hood [episode 3] as per page 786, "Catalog of Copyright Entries 1942 Pamphlets, Leaflets, Etc. New Series Vol 39 Pt. 1."
Jon Small credited as artist for first part of this story in Popular Comics #79. Art spotters on the GCD Main list agree Jon Small did the art on this story (May 2011). Previous indexer had Arthur Jameson as artist. |
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| Comic Story | The Gas Pirates (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Chief John Winston; Officer Casey; Officer Jenkins; Larry Barnes; Ben Tate (death); Inspector Kerry; Horatio Miller (villain); Gus (villain); Mike (villain) |
| Notes | Copyright 1942 by Phillips H. Lord, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Big Stoop; Reginald Smythe-Heatherstone; Weazel [M. Belette] (villain); Baron De Plexus (villain); Slugger Dunn (villain) |
| Notes | Copyright 1938 by the Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Syndicate, Inc.
Sunday strips are part of the continuity but are not reprinted except for the first four panels of 1939.01.01. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Hurricane Kids [Alan Burnham; Dave Burnham] |
| Notes | copyright 1942 by R. S. Callender. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; War; Western-frontier | Characters: Cyclone; Midge; Calico (a horse); Cal Grant; Scarface Gowdy (villain) |
| Notes | Copyright 1942 by R. S. Callender. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (a cat); Flat Foot Flanagan; Arson Nick |
| Notes | Copyright 1938 by the Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Text Story | Escape from the Philippines (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young Dick is eager to join the guerrillas with his friends as Japanese advance. His father promises to follow once the documents are microfilmed. Faithful José remains also. A deadly shot by Dick saves his friends from a grenade-wielding enemy. He meets up with the guerrillas. Next day, José arrives with news the house was hit and Corey senior is trapped in the rubble. During the rescue Dick beans a sentry with a brick. On return the guerilla captain reports success contacting U.N. transport for the Coreys and the microfilm. |
| Featuring | Popular Comics text |
| Credits | Pencils:? (signed illustration) | Inks:? (signed illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Dick Corey (a youth, son of Thomas); Thomas Corey (U.S. Consul for X---, a Philippine island); José (the Corey's male cook and housekeeper); Jap sharpshooter; Filipino guerrillas; Tomaso Hermanito (a youth not quite Dick's age); Felipe Cortes (guerrilla captain); Jap sentry |
| Notes | Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books, the entries in which show the Popular Comics text feature as having been his other regular assignment on the series. (Entries list story title, and identify the feature as "Popular Comics filler" up to issue #83, then as "text for Popular Comics" through to 1948 when the series folded.) Art is signed but unclear. One surmises that what the setter of the type rendered as "the door of the dark room" was "the door of the darkroom" in the original, as Corey is processing film with developer therein.
Du Bois goes to town with Spanish, the most used by him of the many foreign languages with which he peppered his didactic stories. "...los guerrillas ... Yo se muy bien ... el patron ... ---vaya! Vaya con Dios! ... Chico ... Buen' dias compadre! ... amigo ... Vamonos! ... Es nada ... Señor Corey ... both Señors Corey ..." And young Dick's slightly younger friend's name translates as Littlebrother. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Chief Murphy; Veronica Puddle; Lotta Latin; Luke Tortoni; Sharpie Sam (villain) |
| Notes | Copyright 1942 by R. S. Callender. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama; Humor | Characters: Skeezix Wallet; Nina Clock; Tops |
| Notes | Copyright 1937 by the Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Don Winslow; Red Pennington; Captain X (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Uncle Bim Gump [Benjamin Gump]; Millie Gump; Hortense De Stross |
| Notes | On inside back cover in black & red. Copyright 1937 by the Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Advertisement | Jim Prentice Announces His Super Electric Football (1 page) |
| Featuring | Electric Game Company |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Jim Prentice |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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