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| Thanks for sharing. I especially like the Centaur comics! |
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| This is a great find. Thanks for tracking down and uploading this Platinum-Age gem which completes the series grandly. |
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| This downloads as a zip file. No complaint, just observation. |
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| Thank you very much for this. Now I have a complete collection of the Clock yayyy |
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| Great job - Many thanks ! |
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| Very excited. Not only is the last remaining Clock appearance available, but this is the long-sought-after first appearance of the Orchid, the Clock's would-be love interest!
Thank you! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | January 1937 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Allison is credited on the contents page. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Allison is credited on the contents page. |
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| Featuring | Contents |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Baffled by a Flower (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A woman calling herself The Orchid is sitting behind a blonde man on an open-topped bus, when she notices brown hairs growing on the back of his nexk. She writes a note, which he picks up, stating she knows he is The Clock and to meet her at a specific time and place. Thinking this might lead to a romantic encounter, he attends and helps rescue her from a band of thugs, but she disappears into the night. |
| Featuring | The Clock |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Clock; The Orchid (introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Murder at Midnight (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Colonel Thorndyke is murdered in his home, and the great detective is called in to solve the case. |
| Featuring | Spurlock and Watkins |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Spurlock; Watkins; Colonel Thorndyke; Mrs. Thorndyke; Ling |
| Notes | Holmes & Watson style detectives. Humor |
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| Featuring | Clues Club |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
| Notes | Lester is credited on the contents page. A previous indexer thought this was signed ES instead of LES, which is understandable as the L is hard to make out because of some hatching, but it is there if you look. |
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| Comic Story | The Trans-Atlantic Murder Mystery (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wealthy Nikolas Gale is murdered aboad the liner S.S. Gigantic, two days out of Southampton, England, and the fabulous Rajah Diamond stolen. Inspector Craig, on vacation, is also aboard and brings the murderer to justice. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Nikolas Gale; Inspector Craig; the Captain; Crimmins |
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| Comic Story | The Master Mind (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Master Mind solves the mystery of the murder of the wealthy Gould in his own home. |
| Featuring | Master Mind |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Warren [The Master Mind]; Mrs. Gould; Larson the butler |
| Notes | Page seven is headed "The Solution to the Master Mind Mystery", and has our hero explaining the solution to the case. |
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| Illustration | Caught in the Act (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
| Notes | A two page spread. |
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| Comic Story | Diamond of Doom (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Speed Rush, "hard-boiled Ace of the private detectives", is called in by Fenton, who is charged by the Rajah of Dewar to cut the famous Dewar Diamond, worth half a million dollars. International diamond thief Rocks McCool steals the gem at gunpoint, and takes Rush and Fenton aboard a ship, intending to encase them in cement and drop them overboard. But Rush disarms one of the crooks and holds the others at gunpoint until the arrival of the Coast Guard. |
| Featuring | Speed Rush |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Speed Rush; O. Fenton; Machine Gun Corson (crook); Rocks McCool (crook) |
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| Comic Story | The Case of The-Lizard (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bowers is called in on a case of espionage involving military secrets microscopically etched on glass, and transported in the gizzard of lizards. |
| Featuring | Clem Bowers |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Clem Bowers; Dr. Harvey; Angus McKeever; Donovan; Kucharski |
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| Text Story | Sapphire Seas (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Eggers; Second Officer Harley; Andy Lauenberg; Miss Foster |
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| Comic Story | Wharf Rat (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hunt and Tom are looking for Slug Barton and his gang of thieves on the waterfront, but are themselves captured. Managing to escape, they pursue Barton and Hunt shoots him. |
| Featuring | Thurston Hunt |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Thurston Hunt; Tom; Slug Barton (crook); Mike (crook) |
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| Comic Story | The Amateur Murder (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lilly Belle rejects Le Zard's proposal of marriage in favor of Norman Rogers. Le Zard murders Rogers, staging it to look like a suicide, but still has no luck gaining her affections. Eventually, proof of the murder takes Le Zard to the electric chair. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Lilly Belle Swidge; Whitney D. Le Zard; Norman Rogers |
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