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| The cover art is stiff, isn't great, and isn't Lou Fine, but Lou Fine's art on the Ray comic book story inside is classic!
I like pretty much all the Quality costumed hero / anthology comics, and tried to collect Smash Comics, Police Comics, and Crack Comics back in the 1970s.
Thanks for making available as scans all these comics I couldn't afford to buy then and can afford to buy even less now.
I prefer the digital scans to decaying pulp paper anyway. |
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| There's no way Gill Fox drew the Ray. This almost looks like Frazetta. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bozo the Robot (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Music Hath Charm (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The musician Stradivous, who can hypnotize anyone with his clarinet, works with Jennings to hijack a shipment of gold. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Stradivous (villain, introduction, death); Jennings (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | Mystery of the Five Talking Mummies (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Warren; Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd] |
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| Comic Story | Chic Carter and the Story of the Mole (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Monahan; The Mole |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Toole; Ludbah |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Scarlet Seal [Barry Moore]; Captain Pat Moore; Al Regna (villain) |
| Notes | Credits suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | The Gaston Necklace (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Kent Thurston; Jason White; Rufus Kane; Inspector Battle |
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| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Colonel Atwater |
| Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Featuring | Magno, the Magnetic Man [Quality] |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Magno [Tom Dalton]; Mary Wallace; Steve Recka; Monk |
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| Comic Story | Barbaria Shall Strike (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Listra; Warak |
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| Text Story | The God Mask (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian |
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| Synopsis | Professor Grrr, despondent over Wun Cloo's messing up five murders that he had planned, attempts to kill the detective. Escaping the attempts, Wun Cloo drinks down some Super Putty Juice that makes his body plastic in nature, portrays the Professor's conscience, and convinces the villain to turn himself in. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo [also as Professor Grrr's conscience]; unnamed Policeman; Professor Grrr (villain) |
| Notes | This was Cole's very first strip for Quality Comics.
Script and art revisions from Gill Fox to Cole by Craig Delich, per the reprint.
This story creates the notion that led to the creation of Plastic Man eight months later. |
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| Comic Story | The Medici Candle (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Abdul; Hassan; Achmed Bey |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Final appearance. |
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| Comic Story | The Wizard (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; The Wizard |
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