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| Publication | March 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.] (inset); The Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset); Jane Arden (inset); Ned Brant (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Coming of Jasper Crow (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Returning to the land of his birth, Richard Grey meets Senator Wright who is being bullied by Senator Jaspar Crow to vote for an appropriations bill that would provide kickbacks. When Wright refuses, Crow has him shot by his thugs, and when the Senator dies, Grey assumes the role of the late Senator and votes against the bill. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr., also as Senator Thomas Wright]; Senator Thomas Wright (introduction, death); Dr. Foster (introduction); Wendy Foster (Wright's daughter, introduction); Senator Jasper Crow (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Richard Grey Jr. assumes the identity of the murdered Senator Wright in this story. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | War of the Blondes and Brunettes (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rock Braddon; Space Legion; Commander Crosby; Queen Luxor (villain, introduction); Queen Feros (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Too Much Water (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Wizard Wells; Tug; Portner [Rentrop] (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprint |
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| Comic Story | The Spies on the Junk (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | While near Holland, the Torpedo intercepts enemy Asian sailors and uses their ship to lead their fellows into a trap in Africa. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | The Who's Who suggests, as do Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash in the Quality Companion, that Kiefer, not only created this feature, but did the art for it through the strip's entire run. Kiefer is also usually considered to have written it.
Drew Allen is Kiefer's pen-name used on the strip. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | bottom half of Jane Arden pages. |
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| Comic Story | The Crickets Strike Again (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Baron von Ernst escaped Nazi Germany with his jewels and was killed by a bomb, the Spider uncovered B-16, an operative of the Crickets. B-16 led the Spider to the Big Cricket, and, in the ensuing fight, the Spider never once used an arrow, and was forced to flee the gunmen and battle the Crickets another time. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; Baron Karl von Ernst (introduction, death); B-16 (villain, operative of the Crickets); The Big Cricket (villain); the Crickets (villains) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | Little Squirt Electric Milker (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Drawings of Dwarf Rogan (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Dwarf Rogan (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Text Story | How To Trap a Warden (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Eric Vale |
| Credits | Script: Larry Spain | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Eric Vale |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Sabotage! (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Tor [Jimmy Slade]; Lucy Stone (Slade's colleague); Schneider Polekat (villain, introduction) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Comic Story | The Case of Piggy Dorn (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Pug; Piggy Dorn (villain, introduction); Homer Tweed (introduction) |
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