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| Publication | December 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Previous indexer identified the artist as Reed Crandall." "Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill agrees that this is not Crandall. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith?; Wonder Boy (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset); Quicksilver [Max] (inset) |
| Notes | Previous indexer identified the artist as Reed Crandall." "Reed Crandall expert Roger Hill agrees that this is not Crandall. |
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| Comic Story | The Bombing of Pearl Harbor (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Axis Powers spread a wide net of mayhem, attacking Pearl Harbor (by the Germans yet!), Guam and Portland, Maine. Buddy's idea of building a wire net, carried below airplanes to foul up the invader's plane props, was quite successful. While defending the seas near Maine, Uncle Sam encountered the Spirit of John Paul Jones, which inspired Sam to use America's retired frigates to encircle the enemy in fire, even as enemy soldiers invaded Boston, Massachusetts. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; John Paul Jones (as a ghost; cameo); the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | This story eerily told of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.....and the magazine was cover dated December, 1941, even though the story was probably produced some six months in advance.
Writer credit changed from Gil Fox to Harry Stein from an interview Gil Fox gave Jim Amash, portion of which reprinted by Amash on the Comics History Exchange on Facebook (7 December 2016). Fox confirms Stein wrote the story. Fox also disputes Will Eisner's claim he had researched and suggested the idea. |
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| Comic Story | The Lie Detector (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | Baby Carriage Brouhaha (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Dan Wilson] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Kid Patrol [Sunshine; Porky; Suzy; Teddy] |
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| Comic Story | Crooks in the Country (6 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Frank Kearns] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil |
| Notes | Signed in the last panel. |
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| Comic Story | The Phony Lighthouse (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Lynn Bird] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Prop Powers |
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| Comic Story | The Central American Jungle Caper (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Maxwell (house name) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wonder Boy |
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| Comic Story | The Twelve Duplicate Jurors (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mobster Dutch Hanson kidnaps all of the State's witnesses against him and replaces them, deftly disguiised, with members of his own mob at the trial. Quicksilver turns the tables on them, however, freeing the captives and making them look like Hanson's own mob. When the trial started, Hanson was so confused that he confessed to everything! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; Carol Thomas (State's witness); Dutch Hanson (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Fury on the Florida Flyer (4 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Lowell Riggs] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Jack Doe; Jill Doe |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Winky |
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| Comic Story | Hollywood Hero (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Bob Reynolds] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon] |
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| Text Story | Murder Takes the Comet (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Maxwell (house name) | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Levee Saboteurs (4 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Storey Weaver] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Paul Bunyan; Babe the Blue Ox |
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| Comic Story | A Real Slugfest (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Pen Miller |
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| Comic Story | The Giant Mosquito (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cyclone Cupid |
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| Comic Story | The Marsden Mystery (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog] |
| Notes | Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line on this strip. |
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