| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Aviation; Crime | Characters: Smilin' Jack [Jack Martin]; Joy Beaverduck; Smokey Stover; Captain Blaze |
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| Advertisement | Drink a Toast to Our Armed Forces! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Mason and Co. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover advertisement for Mason drinking glasses. |
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| Synopsis | The small-time hoodlum that Joy hired to make Jack lose his license does his job and frames Jack for buzzing airliners and flying drunk. Joy tries to stay close to Jack by hiring him to drive the tow car for her glider. |
| Credits | Job #: P.C.#96-442 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Dixie Lee; Fat Stuff; Joy Beaverduck; Bottles (villain) |
| Notes | Copyright 1940, by News Syndicate Co., Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: April Kane; Captain Blaze [also as Grand Eyeyam]; Cheery Blaze; Cue-Ball (villain); Singh-Singh (villain) |
| Notes | Copr. 1940, by News Syndicate Co., Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Lew Loyal; Uncle Mack |
| Notes | Copr. 1940, by The Chicago Tribune. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Polly Perkins; Ash [Ashur Perkins]; Gertrude [as Angel]; Sam'l Perkins [Paw]; Suzie Perkins [Maw]; Kitty (a cat) |
| Notes | Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Polly Perkins; Maggie; Sam'l Perkins [Paw]; Suzie Perkins [Maw]; Kitty (a cat) |
| Notes | Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Cookie Stover |
| Notes | Copr. 1941, by News Syndicate Co., Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Cookie Stover; Spooky (a cat) |
| Notes | Copr. 1941, by News Syndicate Co., Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Medical | Characters: Dr. Ernest Rennick; Dr. Luana Higgans; Dr. Van Curtsey |
| Notes | Copr. 1941, King Features Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
| Notes | Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Sequence information provided by Bob Barrett (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4085) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
| Notes | Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Sequence information provided by Bob Barrett (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4085) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Sarge |
| Notes | Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Sequence information provided by Bob Barrett (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4085) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Sarge |
| Notes | Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Sequence information provided by Bob Barrett (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4085) |
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| Synopsis | Toots and Casper find out Cousin Johnny is engaged to Stella Clinker. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Toots Hawkins; Casper Hawkins; Buttercup Hawkins; Colonel Hoofer; Cousin Johnny; Stella Clinker; Uncle Everett |
| Notes | Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Cookie Stover; Spooky (a cat) |
| Notes | Copr. 1941, by News Syndicate Co., Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Cookie Stover |
| Notes | Copr. 1941, by News Syndicate Co., Inc. |
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| Text Story | For the Love of a Dog (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bobby Chandler and Cocky the Cocker Spaniel puppy make friends through the pet shop window. The owner offers Bobby a job doing grunt work to earn enough to buy Cocky, but sells the pup to a rich man instead. Cocky, in a show of his love for the boy, runs away back to Bobby, who returns him to the pet store: "Only your heart belongs to me." Cocky's owner gives Cocky to Bobby: "Whomever a dog loves most is his true master." |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Domestic | Characters: Bobby Chandler; R.W. Wakefield; Simon Clutch; Cocky (a dog) |
| Notes | Copr. 1944, by R. S. Callender.
Gaylord Du Bois script credit per "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985), page 77: "The Love of a Dog. ?p. For Popular Comics, Feb. 1944." |
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| Comic Story | Prison Break (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of a daring prison break and the fast-thinking officer who broke the case. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Chief Darrow; Jean Baker; Mr. Crawford (death); Mr. Walsh (death); Officer Dowling; Officer Dunn (corpse); Bart Croft (villain, death); Calvin Croft (villain, death); Tom Croft (villain, death); Vincent Croft (villain, death) |
| Notes | Based on Phillips H. Lord's famous radio feature.
Copr. 1944 by Phillips H. Lord Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Etta Kett; Mr. Brown; Mr. Kett; Mrs. Kett; Woody |
| Notes | Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Ferdinand; Hope; Jessica; Nina Clock; Skeezix Wallet; Tops |
| Notes | Copr. 1938, by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Andy Gump [Andrew Gump]; Min Gump [Minerva Gump]; Tilda |
| Notes | Copr. 1938, by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc. |
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| Advertisement | Action, That's What Counts! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover advertisement for Make Money/Win Prizes. |
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| Advertisement | Boys! Free 5 Power Telescope (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover advertisement for new Commando Machine Gun (Krack-A-Jap). |
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