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| Publication | August 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Captain Fortune [Tyrone Fortune] (inset); Spin Shaw (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Return of Wampum (9 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Erwin Maxwell] |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dr. Roberts; Wampum; Old Fella; Briney (first appearance; villain); Sloop; The crew of the Black Gull (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | Hong Kong the Mandarin (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rance Keane; Lola Pritchard; Hong Kong (first appearance; villain; a character in Pee Wee's dream) |
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| Comic Story | Johnny Micewuller (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Comic Story | Danse Macabre (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; A skeletal fiddler (introduction) |
| Notes | This story was obviously inspired by Saint-Saens's "Danse Macabre".
Script credits suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | The Disappearance of Tim Benson (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Captain Crane (villain); Philip Kemp (first appearance; villain); Tim Benson (first appearance); Betty Benson (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | Action On the Amazon (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Maj. Hollis (first appearance); Antzec (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost Ship (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Captain Fortune [Tyrone Fortune] (last appearance); The Ghost Pirates (first appearance; villains; death) |
| Notes | Final appearance of feature. |
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| Comic Story | Murder in Apartment 2-B (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Voice [Mr. Elixir]; Tommy (bellhop, introduction); Mr. Hill (villain, introduction) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Arson Plot (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; A fire inspector (villain, introduction); his crony (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Text Story | The Killer (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Detective-mystery | Characters: Stanley Hale (British detective) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Foiled Assassination (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Captain Bruce Blackburn; Frantz (villain, introduction, death); Pratz (villain, introduction, death); un-named spies (villains, introduction for all, all die); Karl Korn (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Art credits from Jim Amash, in the Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #1. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Valley of the Cavemen (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script: John Charles |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar; Prof. Ford Cawthorne (first appearance); A tribe of cavemen (first appearance; all but one die) |
| Notes | John Charles, as used at Quality Comics, was a house name used for multiple writers. It is not the UK writer John Charles who started his career in the 1990s. |
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