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| Publication | May 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly except December and June |
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| Cover | Fear |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Lala Palooza (inset); Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Poison Ivy (inset); Perky (inset); Spin Shaw (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Fear (13 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: John Raymond (first appearance); Martha Braun Raymond (first appearance); The Knife (first appearance, villain, death); Mike Sarto (first appearance, villain, death) |
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| Comic Story | Swing Sisson on the Swing Shift (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sagotage in the bomber factory, and a good aluminum man dead. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Bonnie Baxter; Toby; Max (first appearance, villain) |
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| Comic Story | Action at the Auction (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brien]; Bob Baker (introduction); Gloria Gay (introduction); Van Filcher (villain, introduction); Gunner (villain, introduction); Max (villain, introduction) |
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| Synopsis | Turned down by the Widow Pipwillie, Vincent plans to post her photo in his room to inspire him, but gets distracted by some pin-up magazines. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Widow Pipwillie |
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| Synopsis | Vincent contracts kleptomania. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza; doctor |
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| Synopsis | A figure skater won't agree to let Vincent take her photo so he can sell it. When he snaps an unflattering candid of her, she's forced to pay him. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Mlle. Fifi |
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| Comic Story | 1000 Miles an Hour (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Comic Story | San Francisco Mission (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spin and his squadron capture a Japanese carrier. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Commander Newson (first appearance); The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Heads in 3/4 backview with the jawbone going back behind the ear is peculiar. This can be found in his credited "Mike Gibbs Guerilla" story in Adventure Comics #88, and also in his Lt. Hercules stories in Green Lama Comics. Very few here, so uncertain. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Text Story | The Dum-Dum Murders (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott; Kuglat the Deerslayer |
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| Comic Story | The Home of the Winds (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky; Mrs. Wind (first appearance); East Wind (first appearance); North Wind (first appearance); South Wind (first appearance); West Wind (first appearance) |
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| Synopsis | Butch is assigned to babysit a young circus ape. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Synopsis | Boss Bangs promises not to sock, slam, toss things or boot Butch in the pants when he's angry. He didn't promise not to butt Butch, though. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Comic Story | Captured by the Japanese Underground (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rusty is to be taken prisoner and presented as a slave to the Japanese emperor. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alababa]; Mauki (villain, introduction); Kajanka (villain, introduction); unnamed girl (villain, introduction); other Japanese spies (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Art is by Mort Leav, with his large hands, lively figures and a special crouching way of running, with thighs lifted high. |
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