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| The weakest Munson Paddock strip I've seen so far--and, I would say, because of a strip that has absolutely nothing interesting to draw in it. It looks like he's straining mightily to get some dynamism out of an absolutely generic script. |
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| Publication | May 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Joe Simon signed this cover in small letters. To find the signature, start at the woman's head and scan to the right past the smoke. The signature is just above the brown triangle. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] |
| Notes | Joe Simon signed this cover in small letters. To find the signature, start at the woman's head and scan to the right past the smoke. The signature is just above the brown triangle. |
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| Comic Story | The Beetle and the Bombers (8 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas (signed) | Inks: Charles Nicholas |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; The Yellow Gang (introduction, villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Prince Otembi Affair: Part 1 (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Wing Turner; Prince Otembi (introduction); V: Mahruf-Ali (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Letters credit identified by Greg Theakston and later Harry Mendryk on the Jack Kirby Museum web page http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2369, 31 October 2008 (retrieved 15 December 2014). |
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| Comic Story | Invasion of Fire (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rex Dexter; Flame-Men (from Emalf, introduction, villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Professor's Blackmail Band (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Professor has tricked four big business men into a phony trust that has led several of them to commit suicide rather than pay up. When a Herman Bates commits suicide, the Green Mask looks into the matter and ferrets out the rats responsible. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; News Doakes; F. B. Hendrix; Hendrix's daughter; The Professor (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Billy Bounce |
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| Comic Story | Slaves for Slaughter (6 pages) |
| Credits | Inks: Charles Nicholas? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chen Chang |
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| Text Story | Death by Electrocution (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Joe Simon? [as Martin A. Brusten] | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Dope Smuggling Gamblers (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Lt. Drake |
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| Comic Story | The Weather Kings (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Arriving in Florida, the Moth runs into a terrible storm and discovers a resident who informs him that a group called the Weather Kings are responsible, and they plan to use the weather to control the nation. Discovering the group's weather plant, the Moth destroys the control board and plant. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Norton Kingsley (byline)] (credited) | Pencils: Greg Chapian | Inks: Greg Chapian |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Moth; The Weather Kings (villains, all die) |
| Notes | Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hemlock Shomes |
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| Comic Story | The Transport Saboteurs (8 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (S. R. Powell byline but after Powell left Fox) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: D-13 [Richard Anthony] |
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| Comic Story | Showdown with Sin Lee (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Savage; Sin Lee (villain, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Vanishing Beauties of Ankara (4 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as George Tuska] (byline only) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Zanzibar; Achmed Pasha (villain, introduction) |
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