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Miss Masque was fun – remind me again why non-flying superheroes wear capes – don’t they get in the way and run the risk of the villain grabbing you by the cape from behind? Do they have secret pockets – is it somewhere to store your sandwiches in case you feel peckish on a mission? |
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Publication | February 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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Featuring | Miss Masque, Fighting Yank, Black Terror |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Miss Masque [Diana Adams]; The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III] |
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Comic Story | The Trail of Captain Blood (10 pages) |
Featuring | The Sea Eagle |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: The Sea Eagle [Sir Ronald Blake] (introduction); Katherine "Kit" Young (introduction); Jamaica (introduction); John Blood (villain, introduction, death); Peg-Leg (villain, introduction, death) |
Notes | Next appearance in STARTLING COMICS #50 |
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Text Story | Night Messenger (1 page) |
Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Colors:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset | Job #: D 208 |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Harry Collins; State Trooper Morgan |
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Comic Story | The Musical Monkey Murders! (11 pages) |
Synopsis | Reminded by Tim that today was Jean's birthday, Bob decides to stop at a greenhouse and get her some flowers. A chance run-in with some gangsters at the greenhouse ties in with several murders of prominent people who were found dead in their locked homes. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Terror Twins [The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim Roland]; Jean Starr; Tongo (a monkey, introduction); Jim (Police Department fingerprint man), introduction); Neilson (villain, introduction); Carl Dawkins (villain, introduction); Wally (villain, introduction) |
Notes | Art credits by Mark Heike. |
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Text Story | Woodland Adventure (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Philip Green; Whitey Nason; Jim |
Notes | Text story with Illustration |
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Comic Story | The Case of the Honest Crooks (11 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Fighting Yank [Bruce Carter III]; Seedy (villain, introduction, death); Monty (crook); Gwendolyn Vandenberg; the ghost of Bruce Carter I |
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Featuring | Sporty |
Credits | Job #: AC-873 |
Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Sporty |
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Credits | Script: H. L. Herbert (business manager) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Text Story | Trailblazer (1 page) |
Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Colors:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: George Lincoln; Jackson (crook); Cullen (crook) |
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Comic Story | Cleopatra's Comb (10 pages) |
Synopsis | The caretaker of an Egytian museum commits murder and more in order to put away the infidel dogs who have desecrated the memory of Cleopatra. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Miss Masque [Diana Adams]; Aunt Beth (Diana's aunt); Detective Benson (death); Russ Bowman (reporter); un-named museum caretaker (villain) |
Notes | The Who's Who does NOT credit Gattuso with any work at Nedor/Standard. Bill Black credits the art for this story to Bob Oksner with Lin Streeter. The Who's Who credits Oksner art only in 1945 and Streeter in 1946-47. |
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