| Additional Information |
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| Publication | January 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Cover | An Exciting Thriller |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Black X (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Absent Minded Corpse! (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sam and Dan are twins. One of them shoots the other, but has amnesia, so who's really alive and who's really dead? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Sam Benson; Dan Benson |
| Notes | Credits revised as follows by Craig Delich 2013-9-3: Writer from Jack Cole ? to ?, and art from Jack Cole ? to Gustavson per Jim Amash in the Quality Companion (November 2011). Amash states that Gustavson vainly tries to imitate Cole on his first few unsigned stories.
The Who's Who only lists Gustavson as artist on this strip.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Bataan (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble]; Lt. Graymore |
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| Comic Story | Princess Fatima (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Synopsis | Bozo crosses the path of a loveable hillbilly named Zeke Punkinhed as he pursues a wanted criminal. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Zeke Punkinhed; Killer McSnarley (villain) |
| Notes | The top portion of every page of this story includes a sort of "parallel story,", which mirrors Bozo's adventure as a sort of morality play involving a cat and a mouse. |
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| Comic Story | The Borgen Art Gallery (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Dr. Schoor |
| Notes | Originally credited "Rudy Palais ?" on ink, but Palais has a very marked line from the eye down the cheek in sideview and also a peculiar blot as nostril not connected to the wing of the nose. Not him here. Compare faces in his "Ray" story.
The art is identical to William's other credited stories in this feature, #40 and #41, and his signed "Eagle Evans" story in Police Comics #1. Most faces in nearly frontview with only one ear showing, and very large rounded jaw and chin are special. |
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| Comic Story | Oscar Slott (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Happy Terrill's editor's daughter is kidnapped by the Nazi's, he's forced to fire Terrill and cover up Nazi sabotage. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Carol Hines (daughter of Mr. Hines); Mr. Hines (newspaper editor); Oscar Slott (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Story of a Blind Man Who Could See (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy; War | Characters: Black X; Batu; Herr Dumm; Dr. Christian |
| Notes | Nat Edson is recognised by his skewed faces and mouths, very evident on page 2. Compare with his many Roy Rogers stories for Dell.
Script credits suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Text Story | Rabbits Are Dynamite (1.5 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | On two 3/4-pages; the first has the statement of ownership, and the second has a house ad. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo |
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| Comic Story | The Gold Shipment (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka (villain) |
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| Comic Story | AH-H-H-H-H-C-H-W-W-W-W-W----- (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Oscar Oople |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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