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| Nice art on the “Twinkle Twins” by Al Bryant |
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| I agree. You wade through pages and pages of crude art and suddenly there's the vibrancy of Al Bryant like bathing in cream and honey.
Mr Miracle is pretty good too |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | October 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Jack Kirby for pencils and Joe Simon for inks. |
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| Content | Genre: War |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Jack Kirby for pencils and Joe Simon for inks. |
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| Synopsis | Reproduction of a letter from the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. urging readers of the comic book to purchase War Savings Stamps. |
| Content | Genre: War |
| Notes | This public service announcement appeared in numerous comic books around this time. The only difference was in the headline, where the particular comic book title was inserted.
Black-and-white, inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Carrying the Fight to France (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | After hearing of the massacre of a commando unit in France, Duke and Toby decide to pop over and help. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Nazis (villains); Lambesque (villain, introduction, death); Human Meteor [Duke O'Dowd]; Toby |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Comic Story | The Poison Plot (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Lads investigate when they notice a robbery taking place at a drug company. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Liberty Lads [Skip; Chuck]; Lee Hunt; The General [Dr. Dayton] (villain, introduction); Nazis [villains]; |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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| Comic Story | Framed for Murder (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Champ and Henry are accused of murder. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Champ; Henry; Sergeant Cassidy; Ed Day (villain, introduction, death); Pete Carter (villain, introduction); Eduardo Martinelli (villain, introduction) |
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| Synopsis | One panel cartoon showing the inhabitants of Dogpatch lining up to buy War Bonds. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; War | Characters: Lil Abner; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; Daisy Mae |
| Notes | Promotional cartoon to purchase US war bonds. The Li’l Abner and Winnie Winkle cartoons together take up the left two thirds of the page, the Liberty Limericks the right third. |
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| Synopsis | One-panel cartoon showing Winnie Winkle offering to accept part of her salary in U.S. War Bonds. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; War | Characters: Winnie Winkle |
| Notes | Promotional cartoon to purchase US war bonds. The Li’l Abner and Winnie Winkle cartoons together take up the left two thirds of the page, the Liberty Limericks the right third. |
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| PSA | Liberty Limericks |
| Synopsis | Two poems and illustrations promoting the purchase of U.S. War Bonds. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; War |
| Notes | Promo to purchase US war bonds. The second of the two illustrations is signed, but the signature is very difficult to identify. The Li’l Abner and Willie Winkle cartoons together take up the left two thirds of the page, the Liberty Limericks the right third. |
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| Text Story | The Story Behind the Cover (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Lads fight off an invading Japanese force that have landed in the Aleutian Islands. |
| Featuring | Liberty Lads |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Liberty Lads [Skip; Chuck] |
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| Synopsis | Slim attempts to escape The Force by stowing away on a ship. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Slim Jim; The Force |
| Notes | This is the final appearance of "Slim Jim and the Force" reprints in Champ Comics. |
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| Cartoon | Flags of the 28 United Nations (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Drawings of flags of 28 United Nations and a charging soldier. |
| Notes | The signature "Ferg" appears next to the art of the soldier. Bails indicates Howard Ferguson worked for Harvey around this time. |
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| Comic Story | Conditions in Army Camp Appalling! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | To undermine the public’s confidence, an unscrupulous newspaper publisher is paid by the enemy to publish lies about the conditions in American Army camps. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: A. Daniel Durst (villain, introduction); Countess Honen Linden (villain, introduction); Elijah Truth; Diane Twinkle; Dan Twinkle |
| Notes | Art identification from original art at Lewis Wayne gallery.
Previous indexer suggested Rudy Palais? for pencils and inks or Mort Leav? for pencils and inks. |
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| Synopsis | Daffy gets a role as a reporter for the camp newspaper. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Daffy Drafty |
| Notes | app. between SPEED COMICS #18 and 26 |
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| Comic Story | The Fiendish Four (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Padlock continues in his pursuit of The Professor, while both Nick O’Tyme and Dr Watsis have gone missing. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Professor (villain); the Baroness (villain); the Fiendish Four (villains) |
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| Synopsis | One-panel cartoon showing Smokey Stover going to purchase War Bonds. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover |
| Notes | Promo for the purchase of US war bonds. The 2 cartoons (this and Rube Goldberg’s inventions) occupy the left two thirds of the page. |
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| PSA | One of Rube Goldberg's Inventions |
| Synopsis | One-panel cartoon showing a man with an elaborate invention to remind him to purchase War Bonds. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Promo for the purchase of US war bonds. The 2 cartoons (this and Smokey Stover) occupy the left two thirds of the page. |
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| Notes | Vertical format (occupying the right third of the page) house ad for Green Hornet and Speed Comics. Only art is cover reproductions. |
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| Synopsis | Multiple puzzles and word games. |
| Featuring | Champ Confusers |
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| Comic Story | Snooky the Mayor (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Snooky fights off crooked campaigners in his run for mayor. |
| Featuring | Snooky |
| Content | Characters: Snooky (introduction); V (introduction); Harlow Jarmin (introduction) |
| Notes | story all in rhyme
Only appearance of this "Snooky" feature. Not to be confused with the later "Snooky" feature from Fox. |
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| Synopsis | A former colleague of Dr. Miracle has come to Hollywood to raise a zombie army. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy; Superhero | Characters: Dr. Miracle; Mat Mahata (villain, introduction, death); Dolores Dolora (introduction) |
| Notes | Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. |
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