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| Publication | March 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dynamo (formerly Electro) |
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| Synopsis | Two illustrated accounts of crimes solved by science. |
| Featuring | Science Fights Crime! |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside front cover.
Only appearance of the "Science Fights Crime!" feature. |
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| Comic Story | The Mail Pirates (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Eagle investigates a series of mail planes that have gone missing while flying over the Rockies. He finds and brings to justice the gang that has been shooting them down and stealing the mail. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Eagle [Ted Powers; Bill Powers] (The Eagle's first name is Ted in the first few panels and Bill in the last few- Bill is used in later appearances); Jason; Blackie (villain; introduction); Blackie's gang of mail pirates (villains; introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Fort Knox Gold Robbery (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dynamo tracks the stolen gold to a mansion where an "artist" was hiding it inside of bronze statues. When the rest of the gang attacks him, Dynamo uses his powers to electroplate them in the gold and delivers them to the federal men. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dynamo (formerly Electro) |
| Notes | formerly Electro; probably changed due to Timely's Electro from MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS. In some panels (but not all), Dynamo's costume still has an "E" on the front above the lightning bolt. |
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| Comic Story | Master of the Ice Ray (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cosmic Carson goes in search of a space expedition that never returned. He is captured by the same inhabitants of the planet that the original team was- a race of men with skull-like features. Using his superior strength he escapes, frees the other Earthmen, tricks the Skull Men into destroying their own weapons, and bombs them out of existence as he flies back to Earth. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Cosmic Carson; The Skull-Men (villains; introduction; death) |
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| Comic Story | Attack On the Moon (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Perisphere Payne heads a team sent to help the refueling station on the Moon defeat an invasion. He discovers that the invasion is coming from a city deep in the Moon's core and destroys the city with explosives. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Arnold Haney] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Perisphere Payne |
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| Activity | Build a Fighting Plane (1 page) |
| Notes | Patterns intended to be traced on cardboard, cut out and assembled into a plane. |
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| Activity | Build a Super-Locomotive (1 page) |
| Notes | Patterns intended to be traced on cardboard, cut out and assembled into a locomotive. |
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| Comic Story | Uchunko, Ruler of the Jungle (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Marga and Ted are captured by Uchunko, who believes himself the rightful rule of the jungle. He intends to kill Ted by throwing him in a pit and rule with Marga at his side, but Marga escapes and rescues Ted and the two fight their way back to civilization. |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Marga; Ted Grant; Uchunko (villain; introduction) |
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| Text Story | Gold...1000 Miles Down (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Text with illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | Battle of the Insects (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Doom escapes from Jan and Wanda who pursue him back to Jupiter. He captures them and subjects them and his other captives to his diminishing ray. Shrunken down to insect size, Jan, Wanda and the other captives must fight mosquitoes as one of Dr. Doom's "experiements". When they defeat the mosquitoes Dr. Doom restores their size, and they overpower him and escape, leaving him chained in his lab. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as Richard Crater] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dr. Doom (villain); Jan; Wanda |
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| Comic Story | The Prime Minister Strikes Back (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The deposed Prime Minister invades and captures the city of the fish men. Navy Jones arrives just in time to save the King from being fed to a giant two-headed carnivorous plant. As the King goes to prepare explosives Navy rescues Princess Coral from the Prime Minister, throwing him into a pen of hungry sea swine. As Navy and the Princess escape, the King blows up the whole city and the invaders that were occupying it. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Navy Jones; Princess Coral; The King; The Prime Minister (villain; death) |
| Notes | Page count correction by Len Wolinsky via error report. |
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| Publisher advertisement | 5 Direct Hits (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wonderworld Comics; Mystery Men Comics; Fantastic Comics; Science Comics; Weird Comics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Fox's five main anthologies, featuring a drawing of a cannon plus miniature reproductions of the covers to Wonderworld Comics #11, Mystery Men Comics #8, Fantastic Comics #4, Science Comics #1 and Weird Comcis #1. Inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | Johnson Smith & Co. (1 page) |
| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | 30+ small ads, some with illustrations, for products offered by Johnson Smith & Co. Back cover. |
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