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| Publication | September 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Joy Beaverduck |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (a cat) |
| Notes | "Copr. 1941, by News Syndicate Co. Inc."
On inside front cover in black, white and red. |
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| Synopsis | Joy gets a job as a flight instructor and Downwind succeeds in getting Jack and Joy together. Later, spies capture Downwind. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack [Jack Martin]; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Joy Beaverduck; Kiwi; Line-Plunge; More Stuff; Skinnyatlas; Young Stuff; D-T (villain); K-9 (villain); Tepid Fahrenheit (villain); The Eye (villain) |
| Notes | "Copr. 1940, by News Syndicate Co. Inc."
Includes the Sunday strip of September 29, 1940 on page 4. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: April Kane; Big Stoop; Captain Blaze; Deeth Crispin; Mr. McNulty; Raven Sherman |
| Notes | "Copr. 1940, by News Syndicate Co., Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Etta Kett; Mr. Kett; Mrs. Kett; Captain Bricker [also as Captain Hicks] |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Medical | Characters: Brenda; Carrie Wigglesworth; Dr. Van Curtsey; Francis; Mack; Magnus Major; Nurse Norman; Slapsy McGonigle; Tommy Trent |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features, Inc." |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Pat Sullivan] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Mr. Billington Boo; Mrs. Boo |
| Notes | "Copr. 1932, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Text Story | Jungle Justice (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young Nachu and the other elephant tenders are tied up by the Japs after the Japs killed one of the elephants, and one Jap poked the bull elephant with a bayonet. Nachu escapes, and unchains all the elephants, riding the bull, who first kills the Jap who speared him, then leads a stampede on the Japs' headquarters huts where they'd lain in wait to ambush the allies. Alerted, the Americans arrive, shelling the remaining Japs' camp. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Akila; Little Nachu; Muldao; Shawbaw (an elephant) |
| Notes | "Copr., 1944 by, R. S. Callender."
Gaylord Du Bois script credit per "Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott" (1985), page 78: "Jungle Justice. text for Popular Comics, Sept. 1944." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Chief Cash U. Nutt; C. Finnley Nibble |
| Notes | "Copyright 1941, by News Syndicate Co. Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Ash Perkins; Sam'l Perkins [Paw]; Suzie Perkins [Maw]; Kitty (a cat) |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942 King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Comic Story | Coupon Killers (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rationing malfeasance is followed by coupon thieves, and murder. Ordinary Americans who circumvent OPA Office of Price Administration gas coupon rationing are morally complicit in murders that flow from coupon crime. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Howie Willett; Jean Willett; Judge Torrey (death); Officer Simms; Pops; Benny (villain); Joe Barnes (villain); Sapper Rawley (villain); Agent Tom Garlin (villain) |
| Notes | First in a series of Gang Buster's episodes in a row to deal with crimes against the controlled economy administered by the Federal Office of Price Administration (OPA), which rations the sale of gasoline, automobiles, food, et cetera, by means of issuing purchase coupons of various categories, certificates of permission to purchase, et cetera. Regulation gives rise to bootleggers, counterfeiters, car strippers, racketeers, an underground economy reaching it's anti-American tentacles to corrupt ordinary consumers: fathers, mothers, and and our nation's youth.
"Copr. 1944, by Phillips H. Lord, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Hap Ducker; Lola; Nina Clock; Skeezix Wallet |
| Notes | "Copr. 1938, by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Olsen and Johnson] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Olsen and Johnson] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Sarge |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Olsen and Johnson] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Olsen and Johnson] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Sarge |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Toots Hawkins; Casper Hawkins; Buttercup Hawkins; Colonel Hoofer; Uncle Everett |
| Notes | "Copr. 1943, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Andy Gump [Andrew Gump]; Hortense De Stross; Major Force; Millie Gump; Min Gump [Minerva Gump]; Slither; Uncle Bim Gump [Benjamin Gump] |
| Notes | "Copyright, 1938, by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc."
On inside back cover in black, white and red. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Andy Gump [Andrew Gump]; Min Gump [Minerva Gump]; Tilda; Uncle Bim Gump [Benjamin Gump] |
| Notes | "Copyright, 1938, by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc."
Back cover. |
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