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Love these early Centaurs! |
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Wonderful old comics. :-) |
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Publication | August 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
Notes | While featured on the cover, there is no Skyrocket Steele story in this issue. |
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Featuring | Skyrocket Steele |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Skyrocket Steele Dodge; Sari Marston |
Notes | While featured on the cover, there is no Skyrocket Steele story in this issue. |
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Comic Story | Tyrant's Gold (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Dick Kent and his party are trapped in the Lost City of Tizan. |
Featuring | Dick Kent |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Dick Kent; Prof. Benton; Prof. Redding; Tom Benton; Panchez (native guide) |
Notes | Pinajian signs both first and last panels. |
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Synopsis | The Master Mind solves the murder of banker Gould in his library. The butler did it. |
Featuring | The Master Mind |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Master Mind [Warren]; Mrs. Gould; Larson (the butler) |
Notes | Only one earlier story of this feature is known, although at least one other has been reprinted (in Keen Detective Funnies) so the other early indexes are probably incomplete or mis-labeled. |
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Comic Story | Dragon Pass (7 pages) |
Synopsis | The Phantom warns the stagecoach carrying a gold shipment that Blacky Mallon and his gang are waiting at Dragon Pass. With the Shriff's help he sets a trap which brings them to justice. |
Featuring | Phantom of the Hills |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Phantom of the Hills (masked hero); Blacky Mallon (gang leader); Sheriff |
Notes | Pinajian also signs the final panel. |
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Synopsis | Seascout Tom Dawson comes aboard an old schooner to examine the workings of the ship, and discovers that she is running contraband armaments. He is locked in the hold while the ship gets underway, then released once well out to sea. He manages to send a message in Morse Code to a nearby steamship, which results in the ship being taken when reaching its South American destination. |
Featuring | Tom Dawson Seascout |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tom Dawson |
Notes | A great deal is made of explaing archaic nautical terms. |
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Text Story | Sapphire Seas (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: Capt. C. W. Scott (credited) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Captain Eggers; Second Officer George Harley |
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Comic Story | The Border War (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Nakovia and Batamia go to war over a border dispute. soldiers of fortune rush to the scene of conflict to offer their services. Tom Campbell receives a captain's commission in the Nakovian Army, and is placed in charge of the country's air force, which consists of three planes only. Shot down over enemy territory he is placed in prison, but escapes under cover of night, and blows up the munitions dump. |
Featuring | Tom Campbell |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Tom Campbell, American Soldier of Fortune; Pflueger |
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Comic Story | The Yellow Terror (9 pages) |
Synopsis | Noted scientist Dr. Eddy and his family are preparing to return to the States after a stint working in China. Sunny, his daughter, is attacked by agents but escapes by diving into the river. There she finds Brown, an American who had been sent to buy Eddy's new formula, tied up in a boat and robbed. They free themselves, and while the Eddys are being threatened by Oriental agents, Sunny swims across the river and brings back the harbor patrol boat. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dr. Eddy; Dr. Froz; Mrs. Eddy; Sunny Eddy; Lotus; Monk; Brown |
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