| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Merlin the Magician (inset); Wonder Boy (inset); Sally O'Neil (inset); Pen Miller (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Yiffendi Invades the Philippines (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Uncle Sam steps in to aid the Philippines against an expansionist power of Mias and his brute of a general, Yiffendi, rallying the locals to take back their land. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Mias (villain, introduction death); Yiffendi (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | War of the Airlines (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Prop Powers; Mr. Wallace (first appearance, president of an airline) |
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| Comic Story | The Gem of Mrs. Bigstone (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Shifty Sue (first appearance, villain); Shifty Sue's gang (first appearance, villains); Mrs. Bigstone (first appearance); Gil Moore (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | New York Championship Bout (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The heavyweight champion loses his crown to Kid Dixon. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon]; Jack Dempsey; The heavyweight champion (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | Dredge's Orphanage (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; Miss Lovewell (introduction); Mickey (introduction); Dredge (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line found on this strip, and is also the pen name of Dan Zolnerowich. |
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| Text Story | The Human Guinea Pig (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Yankee Doodle Boy |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Yankee Doodle Boy |
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| Comic Story | Rescuing the South American Expedition (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wonder Boy |
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| Comic Story | The Return of Amnozo (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Cyclone; Amnozo (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Tony Rawlins was a by-line on this feature and was not necessarily a real person. |
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| Comic Story | Fifth Racket Witness Murdered (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Pen Miller; Nuckle (first appearance, villain); Benny Slugesi (first appearance, villain); a lawyer (first appearance, villain, death); various gangsters (first appearance, villains, death); Miss Bystand (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | Olesen's Revenge (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Paul Bunyan; Olesen (first appearance, villain, death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | The Prince and the Pauper: 1940 (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Kid Patrol; Percy (first appearance, joins the Kid Patrol); Duke and his gang (first appearance, villains) |
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