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Satanas' origin story appears in Red Band #1-2. |
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Captain Milksop by Charles Voight.
A very belated thank you to Narfstar. |
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Publication | December 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
Notes | Cover consists of art taken from stories Sam Cooper and Charles Voight drew for Merry Comics (December 1945). |
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Cover | Soldiers, Fortuneteller, and Girl |
Credits | Pencils: Sam Cooper; Charles Voight | Inks: Sam Cooper; Charles Voight |
Notes | Cover consists of art taken from stories Sam Cooper and Charles Voight drew for Merry Comics (December 1945). |
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Advertisement | Candid Camera (1 page) |
Synopsis | Ad for a camera from the Illinois Merchandise Mart in Chicago. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Inside front cover. |
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Comic Story | The Deadly Cap Pistol! (9 pages) |
Synopsis | Brick, of the kid gang called the Wasps, gets involved over his head in a shooting. |
Featuring | Dr. Mercy |
Credits | Pencils: Nina Albright (signed) | Inks: Nina Albright (signed) |
Content | Characters: Dr. Mercy; Brick |
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Synopsis | Captain Milksop's secret identity, Mortimer, gets appointed as Mr. Safety of 1944 by an insurance company, but a group of con-men at another insurance company have other plans. |
Featuring | Captain Milksop |
Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Captain Milksop [Mortimer] |
Notes | Story has red band at the bottom of each page, same as in Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series). Band and the of the date, 1944 in the story hints that this might be leftover inventory from Red Band Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series). |
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Synopsis | Satanas comes from Pluto to destroy humans. He uses vibration to first destroy a building and then destroy a bridge. |
Featuring | Satanas |
Credits | Pencils: Bernard Baily | Inks: Bernard Baily |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Satanas |
Notes | Credit from Bails. Previous credit of "Kane" based on infor added to scanned copy. "Unsure if info meant Gil Kane or another Kane." Comic has red band at the bottom of the page, same as in Red Band Comics. Band hints that this might be leftover inventory from Red Band Comics. |
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Text Story | Bogeyman Deals the Cards (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Bogeyman decides to solve the murder of Captain Warren and only has a handful of playing cards to go by. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Bogeyman; Captain Warren; Crollen; Jeans; Burr; Lieutenant Flaherty |
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Synopsis | Rich Mamie Titeflint agrees to sit through a midnight movie for $50 but is killed by an injection into her arm. Kitty, who was there to photograph the event, and King O'Leary figure out who the murderer was. |
Featuring | King O'Leary |
Credits | Pencils: George Appel |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: King O'Leary; Mamie Titeflint; Mike Mogul; Kitty; Nephew Titeflint |
Notes | Character names corrected by Ed Rock via the GCD Error Tracker. |
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Advertisement | 3 Big Values in One (1 page) |
Synopsis | Ad for a billfold with a built-in change purse from Illinois Merchandise Mart in Chicago. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Inside back cover. |
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Advertisement | Do You Know What Magazine I Read? (1 page) |
Synopsis | Ad for subscriptions to Fawcett Magazine's Mechanix Illustrated. |
Featuring | Captain Marvel; Mechanix Illustrated |
Credits | Pencils: C. C. Beck? |
Content | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr.; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny |
Notes | On back cover of comic. |
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