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| Publication | August 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Aviation; Crime | Characters: Chief Cash U. Nutt; Raven Sherman |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Cookie Stover; 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 | Dixie leaves to see her husband, who is in the hospital, and Jack is broken-hearted. Downwind organizes a group of young ladies as "Sixth Columnists" to fight "Fifth Columnists." Enemy spy "The Eye" targets Downwind and sends Miss Fahrenheit to lure him to his headquarters. |
| Credits | Job #: P.C. 102-448 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack [Jack Martin]; Dixie Lee; Dolores; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Joy Beaverduck; More Stuff; Skinnyatlas; Young Stuff; Woo Woo Bali; D-T (villain); K-9 (villain); Q-P (villain); Tepid Fahrenheit (villain); The Eye (villain) |
| Notes | "Copr. 1940, by News Syndicate Co. Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: April Kane; Captain Blaze; Pat Ryan; Raven Sherman; Han (villain) |
| Notes | "Copr., 1940, by News Syndicate Co., 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: Joe |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Olsen and Johnson] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Steve |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Olsen and Johnson] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Eddie; Private Smith |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Medical | Characters: Carrie Wigglesworth; Dr. Bloodgood; Dr. Van Curtsey; Lenore Pinkkey; Mrs. Pinkkey; Nurse Norman; Slapsy McGonigle; Ed; Martin; Jan; Tommy Trent |
| Notes | "Copr. 1941, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Credits | Script:? [as Pat Sullivan] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Felix the Cat; Mr. Billington Boo; Mrs. Boo |
| Notes | "Copr. 1932, King Features Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Earl Stover; Hammy Webber |
| Notes | "Copyright 1941, by News Syndicate Co. Inc."
Strip has a date of "August the 9th", which would make it a 1942 strip since the 9th is a Saturday in 1941. Copyright date shown is 1941. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Sam'l Perkins [Paw]; Suzie Perkins [Maw]; Kitty (a cat) |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942 King Features, Inc." |
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| Comic Story | House Thieves (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Babe and Blackie burn a house to destroy any evidence they left. The swag, a wrist-watch, is peanuts. Mike the fence heps them to bigger things: Senator Harriman's stamp collection. They and a third man go there. With a crowbar Babe kills the butler who surprised them. They burn the place, absconding with the collection and a thousand three-cent stamps. A clerk calls headquarters when Babe tries to sell some of the stamps Mike had refused. Fingerprints lead to Mike, and the entire crew of boys and fence are taken. Criminals always slip up. Crime doesn't pay. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Tom Runyon; Bertha Runyon; Phil; Brady; Senator Ellis Harriman; Hammond (death); Mike Vorisk (villain); Blackie (villain); Shorty (villain); Babe (villain) |
| Notes | "Based on Phillips H. Lord's famous radio feature."
"Copr., 1944, by Phillips H. Lord, Inc." |
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| Text Story | At the Edge of the Pit (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young Joe saves the downed plane and it's crew, and offers them hospitality until his dad gets back and can pull their plane from the pit's edge. He returns to the plane, saving it again, now from a Nazi-sympathizing crackpot neighbor, with whom he struggles. The crackpot spilled gasoline on himself in the struggle, and when he overpowers Joe and lights a match to the plane, he himself also catches fire, then tumbles over the edge of the pit, and breaks his neck at the bottom. Joe puts out the fire to the plane and is highly praised by the crew for saving their craft, praise he values highly. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lt. Graves; Joe Benway; Dutch Heinrich (death) |
| Notes | Copyright 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: "At the Edge of the Pit. text for Popular Comics, Aug. 1944." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Skeezix Wallet; Nina Clock; Hap Ducker; Lola; Ferdinand; Jessica |
| Notes | "Copr. 1938, by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Etta Kett; Jigger White; Mr. Kett |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Toots Hawkins; Casper Hawkins; Buttercup Hawkins; Colonel Hoofer; Sophie Hoofer; Tiny Fella |
| Notes | "Copr. 1942, King Features, Inc." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Hortense De Stross; Jay Golden Fleecer; Millie Gump; Tilda; Uncle Bim Gump [Benjamin Gump] |
| Notes | "Copr. 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: Major Force; Slither; Uncle Bim Gump [Benjamin Gump] |
| Notes | "Copr. 1938, by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc."
Back cover |
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