| Additional Information |
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| Publication | January 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | Title from the story |
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| Cover | The Human Airplane |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Freedom [Don Wright] |
| Notes | Title from the story |
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| Comic Story | Cub Reporters (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Heist Hogan (Villain; Intro) |
| Notes | Keith Chandler : A previous indexer attributed the art to 'Rudy Palais ?', but compare the style to the signed cover and it clearly is not his work. |
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| Comic Story | The God of Steel (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Shock is called into action by reports of Indian troops committing mutiny over the appearance of Vishnu the Destroyer. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Shock Gibson [Robert Charles Gibson]; Colonel Mohandas Bagore; Vishnu (villain); The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Art credits [previously with a ?] verified by Bill Black, added by Craig Delich 2011-4-24. |
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| Text Story | The Human Airplane (1.8 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Freedom |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Freedom [Don Wright]; The Young Defenders [Slim; Whitey; Lefty; Blackie; Beanie; Joanie]; Professor Hugarb |
| Notes | The Story Behind the Cover
The balance of page two is taken up with the annual Statement of Ownership. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | A Pack of Trouble - King-Size! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy and Shirley head out on a date after Billy is told about her father's experiments to get animals to grow several times their own size. When Shirley's purse is snatched by an organ grinder's monkey, Billy chases the man into the Professor's lab, where he accidently receives an injection of the growth serum. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Sports | Characters: Billy Bickerstaff (football fullback); Professor Dixon (Shirley's father); Shirley Dixon (Billy's date); Watson (the Dixon's butler); Tony (villain, an organ grinder); Tony's monkey (villain) |
| Notes | The last third of page seven has an illustrated ad for four Army and Navy related humorous magazines.
Keith Chandler : This is much more like the art style of Palais than attributed stories in previous issues. |
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| Comic Story | Biff Bannon's Furlough (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; War | Characters: Biff Bannon; The Admiral |
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| Comic Story | The Sacred Tooth of Buddha (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tommy Buttersworth; "Soho" Smith; Mahatma Mohrandi |
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| Comic Story | Treachery At the Top of the World (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Girl Commandos [Pat Parker; Tanya; Ellen; Penny; Mei-Ling]; General Yashimoto (Villain; Intro); the Japanese (Villain) |
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