| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | A Fiesta Turns into a Fracas! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Comic Story | The La Cucaracha Caper (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | While on a vacation in Mexico, Plas and Woozy appear in drag. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Chief Branner; Simeon T. Whistlebutton (introduction); Mr. Ames (introduction); Ellen Ames (introduction); Pancho (introduction); The Mask (villain, introduction); Mopes McGee (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Crooks Convention (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Flatfoot Burns; Jughead Jones (first appearance) |
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| Synopsis | Magnolia May complains she hasn't heard from Dewey for weeks, so her uncle proposes a "magic charm." They concentrate on Dewey and order him to stop whatever he's doing. Dewey happens to be writing to Magnolia May, but he gets the psychic message and stops, visiting the camp canteen instead (where he finds a young woman to dance with). |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Dewey Drip; Magnolia May; Uncle Eb |
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| Synopsis | Destiny meets a wrongly accused man and takes a bold gamble,using his trance state to secure an audience with Death himself. Although very angry, Death concedes that he is under orders "to keep his hands off" Destiny, so Death shepherds Destiny to the Master of the Underworld, a red devil who challenges the hero to a duel. Destiny uses jujitsu to best the devil and returns to the waking world to clear the doomed man of his crime. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Destiny; Death (introduction); Master of the Underworld (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Thomas Hawkins (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Text Story | The Wolf Man (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Often a Bomb, Never a Dud (8 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? (see notes) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Paul Gustavson to ? by Craig Delich April 5, 2013. Jim Amash, in the Quality Companion, verifies that Gustavson wrote this feature through Police (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #22, then picked up again with #37. The intervening writer is unknown for this story.
Paul's son, Terry, said that he never saw any of his Dad's work leave his Dad's studio that he had not penciled, inked, and lettered. |
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| Comic Story | Doc Brewer's Tonic (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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| Comic Story | The Giggling Corpse (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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