| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Lala Palooza (inset); Blimpy (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Adventure with the Corpse (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doll Man faces the insideous Corpse, a man who had gone to the electric chair in 1939, and who could instill rigor mortis in living people. Doll Man succeeds in forcing his foe's car off a cliff... but did the villain live through it? |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; The Corpse [Slick Murdock] (villain, introduction, death?) |
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| Comic Story | Blimpy Falls in Love (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Blimpy falls in love with a lady statue that he stole from her sculptor and which was brought to life by Tabby. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy [Rufus Tastas Sassafrass O'Brain]; Tabby Tyler; Diamond Eyes (introduction, a statue); Ruby Stone (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Case of the Missing Twins (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zero helps Lois Ugar, who is sweet on the detective, summon up her deceased twin sister. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Lana Ugar (a ghost, introduction); Lois Ugar (introduction); Hugo Barno (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Skyjacked in Mexico (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; J. R. McNulty (first appearance); Franz Von Worle (first appearance; villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | Big Bill Ebling (1 page) |
| Featuring | Poison Ivy |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; Big Bill Ebling (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Spider Widow Meets the Spider Man! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The duo must face the Spider Man, who has been terrorizing a factory owned by Dianne's uncle through use of a giant mechanical spider named Herman. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayson]; The Raven [Tony Grey]; John Keller (Dianne's Uncle); The Spider Man (villain, a Nazi saboteur, introduction); Herman (villain, mechanical spider) |
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| Comic Story | Moon, Stars, and Stuff (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A freak show begins when Inferior Man meets a Martian who had lost his way to Venus. However, Sparks rubs Inferior Man the wrong way and was made to be Fudd's slave, being brought down by a lightning rod. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Inferior Man [Courtney Fudd]; Sparks (villain, a Martian, introduction) |
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| Text Story | Heroes Aren't Born (1.75 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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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Snappy |
| Notes | Last appearance of Snappy, which used to be a regular feature in Crack Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series). |
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| Comic Story | Wonder Gal (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Marsha Boles (introduction); the Japanese (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Alababa and the Five Thieves (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpoint Lee; Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong]; Alababa's wife (introduction); Prince Kirasan (introduction); Joe (villain, introduction); four un-named thieves (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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