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| Publication | January 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly except December and June |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; the Undertaker |
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| Comic Story | The Undertaker Returns (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Canadian Mounties fail to cope with fur robberies and a coat made of stolen furs is bought by Dr. Roberts to his daughter. Then Doll Man goes north to find out more, ending with the Undertaker going down in a boat in frozen waters. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Professor Roberts; Sgt. Swenson (introduction, a Mountie); The Undertaker (villain) |
| Notes | Originally credited "Al Bryant ?", but tilting figures with a long upper body and awkward way of standing and walking, some wild eyes, and also broad shoulders and narrow head on stretched neck are all pointing to Zolne. He is credited on both pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but inking may vary. |
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| Comic Story | The Balloon Shooter (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy; Will (first appearance; villain); Joe (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | Father Time House (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky; Father Time (first appearance) |
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| Synopsis | Vincent tries removing a spot from a rug with gasoline. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza |
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| Synopsis | Vincent tells Lala he's going to be a great musician. He's actually a one-man band advertising McWhackies Fine Figs & Nuts on the street. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza |
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| Synopsis | Vincent tries being honest for a change when he asks Lala for money. The result is the same: no money. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | Susie (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Swing and his band are booked to play at the circus. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Bonnie Baxter; Toby; Susie (first appearance; an elephant); Frank Farrow (first appearance; villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Phil Finn; Mickey Finn; Barney O'Toole; McNulty |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Text Story | Temple Serpent (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian |
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| Comic Story | Strong Baby (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Comic Story | Captured by the Japanese (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spin's plane is shot down and he is taken prisoner by the Japanese. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Quackenbush is credited on pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the many short figures and narrow heads point to him. Uncertain inking when compared with his signed stories. |
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| Synopsis | Butch goes for a walk with his pet pig. He blindfolds the animal to spare its feeling as they pass a butcher shop, but the pig then goes on a rampage. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch |
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| Synopsis | Butch models his new comic makeup on a man he sees on the street. Unfortunately, this man is about to lend the circus money, and changes his mind when he sees Butch's parody. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Comic Story | The Liberation of Logoro Island (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ryan and his brigade will clear a small island of Japanese to help the natives. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyviolle Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | The same art as in several Manhunter stories in Police Comics credited to Riss. Notice the flying figure getting a punch, which appears in many of those stories too. |
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