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| Publication | October 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Boss Slaine, Traitor (11 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; Joan Rogers (Rod's fiancee); Emerald Ed Reilly (Rod's father); Slugger Shea (Rod's manservant); Boss Slaine (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Rock Gatty's "Impossible" Killing (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: #711 [Daniel Dyce]; Rock Gatty (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip |
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| Comic Story | The Double Agent (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Eagle Evans |
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| Comic Story | The Hand of Biro (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chic and Gay are trapped in a private hosptial being run by a maniac. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter [The Sword]; Gay Nolan; Dr. Blair; Dr. Grimes (villain); Torg (villain) |
| Notes | Chic appears as The Sword for the last time.
Henkel himself said, in Alter Ego #48, that super-heroes didn't interest him. He was more into adventures stories, like those in the movies........he liked realism. Perhaps this was why Carter appeared in costume as The Sword for only a very short time. Added by Craig Delich 2014-1-3. |
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| Comic Story | The Pinball Racket (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Murphey expects Plastic Man to solve at least one case per month or lose his badge, so Plas succeeds in stopping a pinball machine racket started by one Baldy Bushwack. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey]; Baldy Bushwack (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Super Snooper (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Motorcycle Cop Murder (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Steele Kerrigan |
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| Comic Story | The Escape of Fatso Dowd (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; Fatso Dowd (villain) |
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| Text Story | Pearls of Peril (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Dick Mace |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt (credited) | Pencils: Gill Fox [as G. F.] (signed) (3 spot illustrations) | Inks: Gill Fox [as G. F.] (signed) (3 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dick Mace |
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| Synopsis | The Phantom Lady rescues her fiancee, Don Borden, from spies trying to get defense secrets from him. The spies had tried to frame the Phantom Lady for Don's kidnapping, but she eluded the police. She disappears after rescuing Don and when the cops come in saying that "some dame" called in a tip, Don thinks of Sandra. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; two un-named kidnappers (villains) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp |
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| Synopsis | Roy is called away from Jean's side to the White House, where the President asks Roy to oversee a new lab. While doing this, Roy happens to see a note mentioning a deadly purple mist. When the Human Bomb flushes out the spy behind the mist, he discovers the man to have a pair of purple glasses which, when worn, reveal Nazi assassins hiding within the mists. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Jean Caldwell (Lincoln's fiance); President Franklin D. Roosevelt; un-named Nazi spy (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that Gustavson created the strip and wrote it. Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson, concurs.
Letterer credit from Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son. |
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