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| The art + inking on Black Condor is phenomenal. Also how the heck would a child manage to cut out the Jane Arden paper doll pieces on page 30? Seems cruel. |
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| Rintintin, you probably know this by now but the Black Condor art is by the great Lou Fine. You should check out the Ray collection (His best work IMO) on this site. |
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| Publication | April 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Synopsis | Slim shows Bill his Hollywood Album that he got when he got a Schwinn bicycle. |
| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photograph) | Inks:?;? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Bill; Slim |
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| Comic Story | Jaspar Crow and the Miners (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jaspar Crow works to keep mine workers down. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wendy Foster; Senator Jaspar Crow (villain); Looie; Norton; Stan; Jim; Dr. Foster |
| Notes | Art credits from Jim Amash in The Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #1 (November, 2011), page 93. |
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| Synopsis | Molly refuses to lend her father any more money. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mr. Maloney; Mr. Grubnick |
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| Comic Story | Captured by Captain X (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain X steals the Space Legion's new ship, the fastest ship around. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Captain X (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Out of Thin Air (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wizard Wells is captured by the Double Cross, a group planning to conquer New York. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tug; Karl (villain, introduction, death); other fifth columnists (villains, introductions, deaths) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wilbur; Butch Gogley; Joe Burps; Joe |
| Notes | Six one-panel cartoons. |
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| Comic Story | Doom in the Lagoon (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Red Torpedo rests on an island that turns out to be a refueling station for the Mongols. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Mongolese (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | The Who's Who suggests, as do Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash in the Quality Companion, that Kiefer, not only created this feature, but did the art for it through the strip's entire run. Kiefer is also usually considered to have written it.
Drew Allen is Kiefer's pen-name used on the strip. |
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| Synopsis | Jane plans a trap for the spies. |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Jane Arden; Jessel; Eric |
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| Synopsis | Lena believes that dreaming of fish will bring her money. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lena Pry; Lem; Dan'l |
| Notes | Lena Pry is the Sunday footer (topper) comic strip to the Jane Arden comic strip. |
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| Comic Story | Crushing the Crickets (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Spider works to stop the Cricket and his Crickets. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Cricket (villain, death?); the Crickets [Slick; Lefty; Nick] (villains); Hank |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Synopsis | Ned and Bud play a prank on Jake. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Ned Brant; Bud Shekels; Jake; Gail; Runkel; Dean Smith |
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| Synopsis | Snappy catches a burglar. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Snappy Jones; Spot; Herb |
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| Comic Story | The Counterfeit Plot of Phrogg Zaarn (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tor discovers a plot to ruin the country with counterfeit money. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lucy Stone; Phrogg Zaarn (villain, introduction); Zenzo Shimizu |
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| Text Story | While Rome Burns (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | An actor is believed to have killed his director. |
| Featuring | Eric Vale |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Eric Vale; Jan Blenheim [Buehl]; Brian Marlow; Pat; Adams; Blivens |
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| Synopsis | Bradshaw's dad tries to talk to him. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Little Butch; Percy McSneezed; Wickersham Whittletree; Bradshaw |
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| Comic Story | The Blue Cloak Gang (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Crooks are killing people by throwing a blue cloak over them. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Cloak Gang (villains, introduction); Dan Rogers (introduction, a stage magician); Jimmie Rogers; Slug; Mike |
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| Comic Story | That Soaring Norwegian (1 page) |
| Synopsis | About Charley Hoff's pole vaulting record. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Charley Hoff |
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| Comic Story | Talent Scout for Sap (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A man offers to buy Pappy's land for the sap trees. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Murder of Hy Jakker (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Clock figures out a way to get Big Boy Broge to confess to killing Hy Jakker. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Big Boy Broge (villain, introduction); Hy Jakker (villain, introduction, death); Captain Kane; Butch |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| The Tootsie Roll of Honor (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Bill saves his sister. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Miss Clark; Bill Clark; Tommy; Patsie |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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