| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Spin Shaw (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Samar (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Deadly Toymaker (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Darrel Dane becomes a government detective. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Kurt Killdor (first appearance; villain; death); Gimpy (first appearance; villain); other crooks (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | Mystery at the World's Fair (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rance Keane; Harvey Topping (first appearance); Frank Topping (first appearance; villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | The Band of Treason (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Captain Bruce Blackburn; Henry (villain, introduction); un-named "Band" members (villains, introduction for all) |
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| Comic Story | Queen of the Bat-Men (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar; The Bat-Men (first appearance; villains; all die); Queen Nevar (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Comic Story | Action in Guatemala (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw] |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | Mission to the Spirit World (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zero's fellow mystic, Madam Aura, sends him into the spirit world after a young woman, where he uses his "ring of the moon" to affect the spirits under moonlight. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Mr. Tobias Finch (introduction); Mrs. Tobias Finch (introduction); Sylvia Finch (introduction); Madam Aura (a medium, introduction) |
| Notes | Script credit suggegsted by the Who's Who. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Origin of the Ace of Space (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ace encounters a red and yellow alien spaceship while piloting his private plane, and is able to communicate with the being inside, who warns of an impending invasion by the Slogans. Before the creature dies, he bequeaths a power belt to Ace, which gives him great powers and which he uses to defeat the alien invasion force. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Ace of Space [Ace Egan] (introduction, origin); Jennings (Egan's butler, introduction); an alien (introduction, death); The Slogons (villains, introduction, all die) |
| Notes | Writer credit confirmed by Jim Amash in the Quality Companion (Nopvember, 2011). |
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| Comic Story | The Hunting Trip (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mr. Homer Doodle (first appearance); Mrs. Homer Doodle (first appearance); Bud Doodle (first appearance) |
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| Text Story | The Curse of Quetzal (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt? | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Comic Story | Trouble on the Rubber Plantation (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dusty Dane; Wolf Hennick (first appearance; villain; death); the Mouse (first appearance; villain; death); Patricia Morley (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | The Game with Stamford (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; Chuck (introduction) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | The Mighty Mite versus Muscletoe (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; Muscletoe (first appearance; villain); The Great Colosso (first appearance; a superhero) |
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| Comic Story | The Sinister Lighthouse (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Waxey Ginzo (first appearance; villain; death); Tito (first appearance; villain; death) |
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