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| Crazy, colorful characters and plenty of action and fun. I particularly like Zippo, and Tony DiPreta's art. |
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| Publication | February 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Featuring | The Boy King |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Boy King [King David] |
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| Comic Story | A Leader Against Crime! (15 pages) |
| Featuring | The Boy King |
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| Comic Story | The Upside-Down Town (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bob and Terry enter Sunnytown and go to see the town's newspaper editor to see about getting some matches lined up, when a professor runs in and asks the editor to warn the residents that Sunnytown's gravity is disappearing! When Nightmare and Sleepy investigate, they discover, as the professor warned, that people would be doubled up and/or walking on their hands. Nightmare finally discovers that the professor and a cook are responsible for the mess, wanting to drive the citizens out of town and confiscate their property! |
| Featuring | Nightmare and Sleepy |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Nightmare [Bob White] (wrestler); Sleepy [Terry Wake] (White's kid manager); Hack (newspaper Editor); un-named Botanist (death); Homer; Professor Froott (villain); an un-named cook (villain) |
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| Featuring | Stupid Manny |
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| Notes | Art signed in last panel of story. |
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| Text Story | Detectives Have Brains (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | A Racket in Dolls (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Detective Blair passes by a junkyard, hears a cry for help and encounters a suspicious man. Blair has a cabbie trail this man in a truck, which mysteriously disappears near a doll factory. Blair enters the factory, encounters more suspicious men, is knocked out and winds up in jail. Released on his own recognizance, he becomes Zippo and returns to the factory to further investigate and discovers that the ragdolls are filled with steel bars instead of straw, which other nations then melt down and use for their own purposes......good or bad. Zippo shuts down the illegal sale of defense steel. |
| Featuring | Zippo |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Zippo [Joe Blair]; Lynx (villain); Slug (villain); Bill (villain) |
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| Comic Story | A Well-Laid Plot (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers |
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| Comic Story | The Quilled Death!! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | On furlough from the Marines, Terry and Snoopy stroll around town and discover a moving van in front of a museum. Noting from a newspaper that the theft of valuable gems in town has caused the Mayor to close down the museum. Smelling a rat, Twilight confronts the Porcupine inside the museum, who has already killed the movers at the museum and who seeks a stuffed porcupine found within that contains the stolen gems. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Twilight [Sergeant Terry Gardener]; Snoopy (Twilight's pet parrot); The Porcupine (villain, introduction); Porcupine's gang (introduction for all) |
| Notes | Cassone's signature is found on the newspaper in the last panel of the story. |
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