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| Thanks for posting this Freddyfly! Outstanding artwork on the Doll Man story by the extraordinary Lou Fine. |
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| Publication | May 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Mickey Finn (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Big Top (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Reynolds of the Mounted (inset); Bruce Blackburn (inset); The Ghost Detective (inset); The Voice (inset); Captain Fortune (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Sins of Anton Bock (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Roberts has perfected a powerful gas, a gas too dangerous to sell or even use, so he decides to destroy it. Before he can do so, he is kidnapped from his lab. Later, Darrel and Martha track his movements to the waterfront, where there are strange lights of red, blue and green, as well as mysterious noises. Doll Man steps in to corner the crooks and save Professor Roberts. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dr. Roberts; Martha Roberts; Caleb (introduction); unnamed Sheriff (introduction); Anton Bock (villain, introduction); Bock's spy ring [Butch; unnamed others] (villains, introduction for all, one dies) |
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| Comic Story | The Capture of Castle Balomar (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Captain Fortune [Tyrone Fortune]; Duke Edward (villain; death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Three-Fingered Ogre (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zero investigates the ghostly return of three brothers, who in their youth had made a pact: if one of them were to die, he must return in the form of an ogre, to care for the others. In adulthood, one of the brothers died, returned as an ogre, and killed a brother. Zero unearthed the body and drove a stake through its heart. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero (the ghost detective, introduction); Mr. Bleeker (introduction); Mary Bleeker (introduction); John Bleeker (introduction, death); Peter Bleeker (villain, a zombie, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Dan Zolnerowich created Zero.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
Zero's clients referred to him as Mr. Zero. |
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| Comic Story | The Medicine Man's Scheme (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sakru (first appearance; villain); Wade and his gang (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Snatch of the Plane Plans (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; G. Roland Lorber (first appearance; villain); Inez (first appearance; villain); Joe (first appearance; villain); Fingers (first appearance; villain); Arndt (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | Super Salesmanship (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
| Notes | Includes a Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers parody. |
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| Comic Story | The Murder of Bus Pritchard (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rance Keane; Bus Pritchard (first appearance; death); a murderer (first appearance; villain) |
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| Cartoon | Only Kiddin' (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Living Dead Men (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Blackburn and Jackson fake their own deaths by placing two medical school corpses in a car, setting it on fire, and pushing it over a cliff, all because someone had leaked a picture of Blackburn to the newspapers. Then, to hide their identities, both men go to a plastic surgeon, who alters their features to new, identical, appearances. Using an antique store as a front for their espionage, they catch the man who blew their covers. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy (introduction, origin); Lieutenant Jackson (introduction, Blackburn's double); Colonel Jordan (introduction, War Department Officer); Schwartz (villain, introduction); Smits (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Artist name correction from Henry Taylor Weston to Henry Weston Taylor by Craig Delich 2012-8-27.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. The character was created by Harry Francis Campbell. |
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| Comic Story | The Insurance Murder Plot (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan (introduction, origin); Inhabitants of Boyville [Smiley Scott; Bobby; Ed; Whitey; Scotty] introduction); Cappy Jenks (introduction); Mr. Hicks (introduction); Lockhart (villain, introduction); Spear (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Text Story | Gold of Atlantis (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | Origin of the Voice (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | In 1790, a ship sinks due to a typhoon in the South Seas, and a man, his wife, and their son survive. They drift toward a tropical isle, where they subsist on rare, life-giving herbs. Soon, the parents die, but the herbs allow the boy to somehow survive. 150 years later, a ship stops by the isle and rescues an old man, taking him to London. There, he finds out he needs the herbs to live. He recreates the plant, which gives him super-strength. To fight crime, he sets up crooks, then he tips off the police by radio messages as "Elixir -- The Voice!" |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Voice [Mr. Elixir] (introduction, origin); Fogarty (introduction); John Martinson (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Origin of Poison Ivy (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy (first appearance; origin); Mr. Ivy (Poison's father); Mrs. Ivy (Poison's mother) |
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| Comic Story | Origin of Samar (5 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ted Cain] |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar (first appearance; origin); Mali (first appearance); Tino (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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