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| I use to own this issue but I traded it at a local comic shop for something... I can't remember what, it was about 30 years ago, and I was about 13 or 14 at the time. The guy I traded it to gave it to Jack Kirby as gift while Jack was in town for a comic convention. Yes, Jack Kirby owned one of my comics. |
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| Publication | April 9, 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Extra! Extra! Captain Midnight Foils Invasion! |
| Featuring | Captain Midnight |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright] |
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| Advertisement | Fun - Sport - Thrills - Games (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover.
Ad for the book "Fun for Boys" by the Knickerbocker Publishing, Company. |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (vignettes) | Inks:? (vignettes) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Albright]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; The Clinger [Herr Suksenshusenmitz] |
| Notes | Table of contents with illustrations and a listing of the Editorial Advisory Board. Indicia at bottom of the page.
Editorial Advisory Board listed as: Eleanor B. Roosevelt (listed as past President of the Girl Scouts Council of Greater New York [and at the time, First Lady of the United States, but not noted]); Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (listed as "noted explorer, aviator, and author"); Allan Roy Dafoe, M.D. (listed as "the famous quintuplet doctor"); and Reverend John W. Tynan, S.J. (Father Tynan is listed as a member Fordham University faculty).
Fawcett staff listed as: Wilford Hamilton Fawcett [as W. H. Fawcett, Jr.](president); Roger K. Fawcett (vice-president); Allen E. Norman (secretary); Gordon Fawcett (treasurer); Eliott D. Odell (advertising director); Roscoe K. Fawcett (circulation director); Ralph Daigh (editorial director); and Al Allard (art director).
Subscription rate, 12 issues for 1.00 USD in the U.S. and its possessions. Published monthly at 8 Lord Street, Buffalo, New York, by arrangement with the Wander Company of Chicago, Illinois. Editorial and advertising offices located at 1501 Broadway, New York, New York. Other advertising offices: Chicago, Illinois, 360 North Michigan Avenue; Los Angeles, California, Simpson-Reilly, Garfield Building; San Francisco, California, Simpson-Reilly, 1014 Russ Building. General offices located in Greenwich, Connecticut. |
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| Comic Story | The Flying Guinea Pig! (17.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Midnight flies to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific to get an intact Japanese Zero for testing. Baron Von Togo learns of his plans and sets a trap by allowing a special radio-controlled Zero to be captured. |
| Featuring | Captain Midnight |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11]; Joyce Ryan; Ichabod Mudd; Baron Von Togo (villain, death?); General Hirogati (villain) |
| Notes | Captain Albright's testing facility is in Nevada. |
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| Publisher advertisement | A Special Treat Throughout the Whole Year! |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mary Marvel [Mary Batson] |
| Notes | Promo for Mary Marvel becoming a regular feature in Wow Comics.
Mary Marvel figure used in this promotional advertisement is taken from the cover of Wow Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #9 [January 6, 1943]. |
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| Text Story | Doomed Wings (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Red Skye flies a Corsair catapulted from an disguised English merchant ship to protect a convoy from The Baron and his planes. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Red Skye; The Baron (villain) |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Don't Miss Captain Midnight on the Radio! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Captain Midnight |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) |
| Content | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright] |
| Notes | Drawing of Captain Midnight, with a list of cities and radio stations carrying his radio program. |
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| Comic Story | The Strange Secret of the Invisible Plane! (10.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Albright invents a special paint that turns invisible under strong light. Japanese spies steal a model coated with the special paint. |
| Featuring | Captain Midnight |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd; S. S. Yardarm (shipyard owner); Hitshoo (Japanese spy, villain); Japanese spies (villains); Japanese sailors (villains) |
| Notes | Title in the table of contents is "The Plane No Man Could See!" |
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| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Content | Characters: Emperor Hirohito |
| Notes | Advertisement promoting the sale of war bonds and stamps. |
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| Comic Story | The Spy of the Spanish Main! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Nazis plant bombs on cargo planes to stop Allied supplies for the North African campaign. |
| Featuring | Captain Midnight |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; Superhero | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Albright]; Chuck Ramsey; Schlager [as Major Everett] (villain); unnamed U.S. Naval personnel; Nazis soldiers (villains); local native; U.S. pilots |
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| Publisher advertisement | Oh, No? Don't You Believe There's a Captain Marvel Bunny? (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Superhero; Western-frontier | Characters: Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Billy the Kid; Paint (a horse) |
| Notes | Promo for "Funny Animals" comic, with two panels featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. |
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| Comic Story | The "Good" Gremlin (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Little Sneezer is ferrying a plane across the Atlantic, when it is attacked by a battalion of gremlins. Sneezer is helped by a "good" gremlin and fights off the other gremlins with one of his sneezes. |
| Featuring | Little Sneezer |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Little Sneezer; Adolf Hitler; Herr Stoopidpuss; Gremlins |
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| Comic Story | Cadaverous Clinger! (12.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | A costumed German spy has special gloves and shoes equipped with suction cups so he can climb walls. He and his gang of spies try to steal a bomb formula Captain Albright has invented so they can use it to cause a volcano to erupt. |
| Featuring | Captain Midnight |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11]; Joyce Ryan; The Clinger [Herr Suksenshusenmitz] (villain, death?); Herr Fowlballe (villain, death?); Colonel Will Charles? (Colonel is unnamed); German soldiers, U.S. soldiers |
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| Publisher advertisement | Calling All He-Men! |
| Featuring | Don Winslow of the Navy |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Don Winslow |
| Notes | Promo for "Don Winslow of the Navy" comics. |
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| Advertisement | Amazing Offer to Comic Readers (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Advertisement for "Webster's Complete Reference Dictionary and Encyclopedia." Sold by Caxton House, Incorporated. |
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| Advertisement | Free With This Offer 33 Power Telescope Lens Kit (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover.
Ad for the "Wonders of Science, Simplified" book by Metro Publications. |
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