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| They're hardly all good, but therein lies the fun. I love oddball superheroes like the bizarre Bouncer, the Puppeteer, the Purple Tigress (who had 3 boyfriends and only 2 appearances) and the Green Mask (which one of the few well-drawn features. And the haphazard mediocrity of the humor and funny animal material is kind of the point -- they're practically unintentional underground comix, especially the rather amazing Pussy Katnip. |
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| Having considered All Good and All Great comics, I’m now looking forward to All Outstanding and All Superlative comics. Mind you, there can be no argument against so many pages for such an apparently modest price.
Great opening page on the Bouncer with distressed blonde in red dress (I’m colour blind). Bizarre, yet somehow captivating, tale of a saltating cross-dressed hero, a forgetful mesmerist and a corneal eye transplant (don’t try this at home folks) – what’s not to like?!
I skipped on to the Puppeteer with distressed blonde in green dress. Our hero places an unknown tracking device in Myra’s puppet (isn’t that illegal?). There’s a bleeding statue and a talking raven – if that pulls your strings, go for it.
I skipped the funnies to reach the better drawn Betty Boyd by ‘Al Jones’. Feisty reporter, Betty, is on the track of Mr Big in Nevada. Will she find him her underworld untermensch underground?
‘Betty Brown’s’ the Purple Tigress (blonde in a purply stripey bikini thang) caught my attention. As she seeks to ensnare a gang of jewel thieves, she retains her most snarling comments for her admirers. Last time I saw a purple tigress was after downing half a bottle of Putinska vodka in a Moscow dive at New Year’s – don't think she was real, unless tails were in that year - ah, such memories of my youth.
Suddenly, a well-drawn strip pops up out of nowhere – Frank Godwin’s Adventures of Connie. Jim & Connie travel back in time to rescue Jim’s sister where they meet up with a WC Fields-type character. Only thing is, it ends quite suddenly and I don’t think I understood it – where did the radio come from? Help, anyone?
Thanks for picking this out Crash/Panther! |
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| Publication | [November] 1944 | Price: 0.25 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Art identification based on Stoner’s signed cover for The Funnies #56 (June, 1941), which includes similarities such as Stoner’s use of protagonists with curly hair, big dimples, and wide smiles showing teeth. |
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| Cover | 30 Complete Picture Stories |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Bouncer; Adam Anteas Jr.; Waterman O'Brine; Wetmore O'Brine |
| Notes | Art identification based on Stoner’s signed cover for The Funnies #56 (June, 1941), which includes similarities such as Stoner’s use of protagonists with curly hair, big dimples, and wide smiles showing teeth. |
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| Contents | Contents (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | List of contents for the issue, plus copyright and publisher notices.
Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | The Borrowed Eye (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Anteas and the Bouncer save Professor Mentor from a fire but his eye is hurt. The Lens decides to kidnap the volunteers that come forward to help save the professor's eye. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Bouncer; Adam Anteas Jr.; Penny; Professor Mentor; The Lens; Mrs. Jones; Sneaky; Mr. Good |
| Notes | Title from contents page. Appearance between The Bouncer #13 and #14. |
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| Comic Story | S.O.S. from Mars (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Princess Mina uses telepathy to bring Rick Evans to Mars to fight a six-armed villain named Lugo. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Stan Ford] | Inks:? [as Stan Ford] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rick Evans; Stringbean; Lugo; Princess Mina; Astra |
| Notes | Last appearance in All Top Comics #1 (one-shot). |
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| Comic Story | The Prison in the Sky (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rick and his friends go searching for missing scientists in space but find themselves enslaved by a giant cyclops and his wife. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Stan Ford] | Inks:? [as Stan Ford] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rick Evans; Stringbean; Astra; Prof. Dennis; Prof. Brown |
| Notes | Next appearance in All Your Comics #1 (first one-shot). |
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| Comic Story | The Bleeding Statue (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Puppeteer saves museum curator Dr. Martin's daughters when they are kidnapped by a mad sculptor. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Puppeteer [Alan Dale]; Raven (bird friend of Puppeteer); Dr. Martin; Myra Martin; Helen Martin; a mad sculptor (villain, death); mad sculptor's apprentices (villains) |
| Notes | Alan Dale transforms himself into the Puppeteer by playing the first notes of Beethoven's fifth on the giant organ.
Last appearance in All Top Comics #1 (one-shot) as Captain V.
Next appearance in All Your Comics #1 (first one-shot).
Alec Hope is a by-line that appeared on art by Hollingsworth.
Art credits courtesy of the Who's Who. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Julius Caesar |
| Notes | Filler with facts about elephants, Julius Caesar, burning books in England, snapping turtles and horseshoe crabs. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Unusual facts about archery, triceratops, water spiders, tuatara, and hermit crabs. |
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| Synopsis | Speed Karr finds a secret message and gets kidnapped for having it. Red Robbins uncovers a plot to steal gold from a sunken ship. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Ron Rogan] | Inks:? [as Ron Rogan] |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: "Speed" Karr (first appearance); Blackie (first appearance; villain); Red Robbins; Pugsie; Mugsie |
| Notes | Last appearance in All Top Comics #1 (one-shot). |
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| Comic Story | The Medical Murderer (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Red Robbins tracks down Trigger Burke after he's hurt in a car crash. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Ron Rogan] | Inks:? [as Ron Rogan] |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dr. Howell (first appearance; villain); Trigger Burke (first appearance; villain); Red Robbins; Muggsy; Penny |
| Notes | Next appearance in All Your Comics #1 (first one-shot). |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Vanishing Gems! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dick goes undercover as a waiter at a dinner party to catch a cross-dressing jewel thief. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Hap Harris] |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Transom; Mrs. Ascot |
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| Synopsis | The O'Brine twins go golfing and end up imagining themselves golfing with the sun. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Larry Page] |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Waterman O'Brine; Wetmore O'Brine; Pluto (The Devil); Gabriel (angel); Luna Moon; Mr. Sun; Venus; Mr. Champ Golpher; Halput'ertherekid; Susie |
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| Synopsis | The O'Brine twins get involved in a southern feud. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Larry Page] |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wetmore O'Brine; Waterman O'Brine; Pappy O'Connor; Zeke O'Connor; Rufe O'Connor; Tim McLoy; Maw O'Connor; Jennie O'Connor |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Facts about golden eagles, bagpipes, signing with an X, quartz spectacles, and torpedoes. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Christopher Columbus |
| Notes | Facts about bells, Christopher Columbus, the water lily, diamonds, and the woodpecker. |
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| Synopsis | Betty, a reporter, tries to find out who's behind the Stetson Silver Mine robberies. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Al Jones] |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Betty Boyd (first appearance; only appearance?); Chuck Morgan (first appearance; villain; death); Harvey Thatcher (first appearance; villain); Bud |
| Notes | Chuck Morgan is also spelled Chuck Morgon. |
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| Comic Story | Who Is the Purple Tigress? (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ann Morgan, the richest girl in town, changes into The Purple Tigress to stop jewel thieves at a party. |
| Credits | Script: Betty Brown (credited) (house name) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Purple Tigress [Ann Morgan] (introduction); Sally; Thorne (villain, introduction); Stella (villain, introduction); Thorne and Stella's gang (villains, introduction for all); Mrs. Alstyne |
| Notes | Purple Tigress appears next in Jo-Jo Comics #7[a] (Fox, 1946 Series)
Newspaper in story reports that the Tigress captured the Stultz Gang.
Betty Brown is a house name and not the name of a real person. |
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| Synopsis | Connie and Walker travel 100 years back in time to track down Walker's sister who Kurt Schrieber has sent back in time. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Connie; Kurt Schrieber; Walker; Abraham Lincoln; Amos Q. Billings; Mr. Sorty |
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| Comic Story | Wires Down (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Titan infiltrates a gang who is destroying telegraph lines. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Ben Ellis] |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Scar Plumm (first appearance; villain); Mr. Harte (first appearance; villain); Titan; Walter Crane; Bill; Frank; Fred |
| Notes | Last appearance in All Top Comics #1 (one-shot); next appearance in All Your Comics #1 (first one-shot). |
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| Synopsis | Percy and Betty find a fake treasure map that leads them to a real treasure. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Pat Adams] |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Percy; Betty; Reggie |
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| Comic Story | The Cat's Meow! (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pussy Katnip, nightclub owner, takes the Katnip Fizz to turn her into a crime-fighter when Bulldog and his gang tries to put her out of business. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Len Short] |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Superhero | Characters: Pussy Katnip; Bulldog; Setter; George; Pointer |
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| Synopsis | Snooky and Honey Bear take their sky rocket to investigate where all the stars have gone. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Toby] |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Snooky; Honey Bear; Man in the Moon; Tootsie |
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| Synopsis | Sis and Junior sneak into a baseball game. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sis; Junior |
| Notes | The logo for this story reads "Sis an' Jr." |
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| Synopsis | Professor Nudnik's assistant mishears the word "bum" for the word "bomb". |
| Featuring | Prof. Nudnik |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Professor Nudnik; Professor Nudnik's assistant |
| Notes | Not listed in table of contents inside front cover.
This is the only appearance of the "Prof. Nudnik" feature. |
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| Synopsis | Karrots and Goopy make an invention to trap an animal. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Karrots; Goopy |
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| Synopsis | Mike's friend asks him to take pictures of him being extorted, but Mike can't focus the camera in time. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Tod Kay] |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mike the M.P. |
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| Synopsis | Gussie goes home on leave but can't find a date. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Ab Moore] |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Gussie the Gob; Paul; Mimi; Frank |
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| Synopsis | Inky goes into a boxing match with Red Kamphor to get money to pay off the Bunny family's mortgage. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Inny; Inky; Red Kamphor |
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| Comic Story | Crime in No. 9 (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A funny animal gang uses a shrinking ray to infiltrate a jewelry store. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Crime | Characters: Limey; Mr. Snard; Sparkins |
| Notes | Contents page gives title as "Crime at No. 9". |
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| Comic Story | The Landlady (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A man who owes back-rent escapes his landlady by using his wits. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Harvest of Horror (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Neck escapes from jail and battles the Green Mask while Johnny Green and his friends are going to help a farmer. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Jack Fiske] |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Green Mask III [Johnny Green] (possibly first appearance); The Neck (first appearance; villain); Suzie; Bill; Beeswax; Lee Plough; Lug; Bozo |
| Notes | Last appearance in Mystery Men #31; next appearance in All Great Comics #1 (second one-shot) |
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| Advertisement | For Victory (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Small ad for war bonds.
Inside back cover. |
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| Publisher advertisement | American Comics Library (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Logo for American Comics Library on a red background.
Back cover of comic. |
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