| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mickey Finn; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Samar (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Fargo Kid (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Reynolds of the Mounties (inset); Zero (inset); Poison Ivy (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Human Manikins (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Martha is kidnapped by De Swank, who owns a department store in which he turns women into lifelike manikins with a serum he intends to sell to Fifth Columnists. |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; De Swank (villain, introduction); Samson (villain, introduction); Von Frolica (villain, introduction); un-named Nazi spies (villains, introduction for all) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | The Caretaker's Ghost (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Jim (introduction); Rick Williams (introduction); A caretaker's ghost (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Jungle Storm (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Samar comes upon a man and woman being attacked by a giant gorilla upon returning to civilization from a gem expedition and saves their lives. But treachery strikes Samar and he goes on the trail of Bill who has forcibly taken the girl. Samar saves both from an elephant stampede and they reunite with Frank and all is well. |
| Credits | Script: John Charles (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar; Frank (introduction); Jane (introduction); Bill (villain, introduction, reforms) |
| Notes | John Charles, as used at Quality Comics, was a house name used for multiple writers. It is not the UK writer John Charles who started his career in the 1990s. |
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| Comic Story | The Great Ghost Herd (4 pages) |
| Content | Characters: The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]; The "Hooded Murderer" and his gang (first appearance; villains) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | Jack Traxe's Leveraged Buyout (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Jack Traxe (first appearance; villain); Butcher (first appearance; villain); Eddie (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Stepfather's Comeuppance (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost Ship (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Flatfoot; A gang of spies (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Japanese Transformation Drug (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong]; Ellen Drew (introduction); an Army Intelligence agent (introduction); Man of a Thousand Faces (introduction, death); The Black Dragon Society (villains, some die); Hitasu (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Text Story | Out of the Depths (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt? | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Spider Widow investigates a series of mysterious but fatal accidents at the local circus, and discovers the owner, dressed as a clown, is responsible. It seems he owed his performers two years back wages, and, because he couldn't pay them off (and was going to lose ownership of the circus), he decided to murder the acts one at a time! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton]; Bob; J. P. Darbun (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | The Who's Who verifies Borth as not only creator of this strip, but the writer and artist as well.
Last appearance of the "The Spider Widow" feature for a while; it will be replaced next issue by its own spinoff, "Spider Widow and the Raven". The "The Spider Widow" feature will return in issue #67. |
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| Comic Story | The General's Daughter (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Gen. T. F. Langer (introduction); Ellen Langer (introduction); the Japanese (villains) |
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