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| Publication | September 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; Big Stoop |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Six single panel cartoons on inside front cover in black, white and red.
© 1941 Chicago Times, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack [Jack Martin]; Fat Stuff; Downwind Jaxon [also as George]; Mary Smith (voice only); Mrs. Andrews; Miss Murray; Alberta; Dickie; Birteel; Juanita; Ringtail (a monkey) |
| Notes | Copyright 1938 by the Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | Clef Dweller (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (a cat) |
| Notes | Copyright, 1940, by News Syndicate Co., Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Burma; Big Stoop; Nastalthia Vincenta Smythe-Heatherstone; Reginald Smythe-Heatherstone; Inspector Gwenn; Drusilla Crail (villain, death); Chun Wi (villain) |
| Notes | Copyright 1938 by the Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.
2 1/2 pages of the daily reprints did not have dates. |
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| Comic Story | The Return of Robin Hood [Episode 1] (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Robin Hood; Baron De Grise (villain, death) |
| Notes | © 1942 by R. S. Callender.
Corroboration of Gaylord Du Bois script credit for Return of Robin Hood [episode 1] as per page 625, "Catalog of Copyright Entries 1942 Pamphlets, Leaflets, Etc. New Series Vol 39 Pt. 1," by Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Published 1942. |
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| Synopsis | Cyclone and his friends escape from the Incas. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Cyclone; Midge; Calico (a horse); The Great Inca; Don Manuelo McCarthy; Sandy Waters |
| Notes | Copr., 1942, by R. S. Callender. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Don Winslow; Red Pennington; Professor Olympus Lancton; Betty Shipman; The Purple Dictator (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Skeezix Wallet; Tops; Gootch; Fuzzy |
| Notes | Copyright 1937 by the Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Synopsis | Bim finds a baby on his doorstep. |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Humor | Characters: Andrew Gump; Uncle Bim Gump [Benjamin Gump]; Little Napolean (a baby, unnamed) |
| Notes | Copyright 1937 by the Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Synopsis | Chief Murphy and Nick investigate a mystic cult located in a fashionable neighborhood that caters to people of all walks of life who are wanting to rid themselves of their cares and troubles. But the Owl discovers that the cult's leader is actually looking for celebrities amongst the people, then use information they provide to blackmail them. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Chief Murphy; Mrs. Astorpont; Secret Order of Karanak [Poona; Maya (former press agent)] (villains, introduction for both) |
| Notes | Copr., 1942, by R. S. Callender.
The Who's Who indicates that Thomas both wrote and drew this feature in 1941, and nothing extant disputes this.
The script credit added by Craig Delich. |
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| Text Story | Spy Patrol (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bascomb Senior returns from civilian submarine dawn patrol in his seaplane, wounded, reporting two German spies headed for Crow Point in a raft. Mom phones in the report while son Dave takes the plane up to try and spot the spies. He spots them on the land, takes the plane down on the shore, and gives pursuit up on the cliff. An army pursuit plane spooks the spies, who scurry and cling from cliff's edge. With his dad's shotgun, Dave holds them hanging there, awaiting the arrival of the boys from the airfield. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Dave Bascomb; Mr. Bascomb; Mrs. Bascomb; older German spy (dialogue); younger German spy (referenced) |
| Notes | Du Bois writer i.d. and Bill Ely art i.d. by David Porta November 2021.
Du Bois identifiers:
The immediate Du Bois identifier is the opening line which fixes the character's name, location, and action. Then, the principal two identifiers are the abundance of nature references; and the technical nautical and geographic vocabulary.
NATURE:
1) "and stared at the misty horizon"
2) "he rounded the high rocky headland south of Poquit Bay. No raft broke the surface of the smooth swells below him."
3) "the steep south shore"
4) "the oval, doughnut-shaped rubber raft wedged in a nest of rocks."
5) '"movement in the bushes near the top of the broken cliff"
6) "the trees are too thick on the point to make trailing from the air certain"
7) "the top of the ridge"
8) "through the woods"
9) "the cliff on the south shore"
10) "a thicket of scrub oak"
11) "a recent rain had soaked the dead leaves and twigs underfoot"
12) "Through the trees, Dave saw them scuttle like crabs over the edge of the cliff. ... where they must be---clinging with fingers and toes to the rough face of the sea cliff."
LANGUAGE:
1) "shoreward."
2) "upwind."
3) "a twelve-gauge, double-barrelled shotgun and a handful of shells loaded with number three shot."
4) "step": "Moments later the red seaplane roared away from the old dock. Though he had never soloed, Dave had flown the little ship with his father. He knew when she reached the 'step.' Pulling back the stick he lifted her smoothly into the air."
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/62088/what-is-the-offset-in-a-seaplanes-hull/62091#62091
"What is the offset in a seaplane's hull? That's called the step. Without it, you'd have to fight against the buoyancy of the rear end of the hull when you rotate for takeoff."
5) "headland" ("headland: a narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea" - Oxford Languages.)
6) "the smooth swells" ["Swell are waves (usually with smooth tops) that have moved beyond the area where they were generated." king5.com whats-the-difference-between-waves-seas-and-swell.]
7) "facing seaward." |
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| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Pete Hanson; Tom Carson; Tony Gorio (villain) |
| Notes | Copr., 1942 by Phillips H. Lord, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: The Hurricane Kids [Alan Burnham; Dave Burnham]; Captain Bill Brady |
| Notes | Copr., 1942, by R. S. Callender. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Six single panel cartoons on inside back cover in black, white and red. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Cover Preview - Famous Stories #2 (1 page) |
| Featuring | Tom Sawyer |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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