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| Excellent stylish Lou Fine art and scans on Black Condor and some of the other great features have nice scans. A few stories are marred by terrible fiche scans and torn pages: The Clock, etc.
New scans of a complete paper copy would be great! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Clock [Brain O'Brien]; Alias the Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset); The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.] (inset); Jane Arden; Ned Brant |
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| Comic Story | The Eagle Battalion (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | On Danger island off the coast of Ceylon, the Sapphire King stops ships and takes their crews to work as slaves in his sapphire pools. The Black Condor flies to the island to free the men, but must contend with the Sapphire King's army of trained giant eagles. |
| Credits | Script:? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; The Sapphire King (villain, introduction) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Molly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Strip reprint. |
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| Comic Story | The Lone Shark (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Torpedo must battle a crafty sea marauder who uses a powerful vacuum cup device to attach his craft to the Torpedo's navigable torpedo and then tries to board and steal the valuables on board. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; The Lone Shark (villain, introduction) |
| 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. |
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| Comic Story | Madam Fatal Goes to the Circus (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Cyclops (intro); the General; Patsy; Miss Roberts; Surat; Mr. Black (villain); Slug (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Revolt! (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rock Braddon; Space Legion; Gulla (Intro, Dies, villain); Gulla's niece (intro) |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Ned Brant |
| Notes | Strip reprints. |
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| Comic Story | The Experiment of Dr. Corsica (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Alias The Spider [Tom Halloway]; Grego (introduction); Dr. Corsica (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Jane Arden |
| Notes | Strip reprints. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Bottom half of the Jane Arden pages. |
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| Comic Story | The Ogre (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Slap Happy Pappy; An ogre (villain, introduction, death, more like a vampire, actually) |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 4-17-09. |
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| Comic Story | Saving the General (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Lee Preston; General Miller (first appearance) |
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| Text Story | The Door of Death (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Eric Vale |
| Credits | Script: Larry Spain (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Eric Vale |
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| Comic Story | The Talking Light (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Wizard Wells; Tug; Rags Rollin (Intro, villain); Cal Kearney (Intro, villain, Dies) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 4-17-09. |
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| Comic Story | The Jay Bird (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Clock faces the Jay Bird, who appears to be able to fly, but who actually was attached to a cable from the airplane. Both he and the masked Pug resolve the case in an aerial dogfight, plane-to-plane. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Pat "Pug" Brady; The Jay Bird (villain, introduction) |
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