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| Publication | June 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
| Notes | Artist correction from Joe Devlin (who did not exist) to John Devlin made by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Samar (inset) |
| Notes | Artist correction from Joe Devlin (who did not exist) to John Devlin made by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. |
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| Comic Story | The Japanese Doll Man (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Japanese force their own scientist, Dr. Hoto, to reproduce the Doll Man's shrinking serum, and, after several failures, he succeeds in shrinking a wrestler, whose strength was increased, but mind was destroyed. Doll Man tricks his foe into a cannon, shooting him to the sharks! |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; a Japanese "Doll Man" (villain, introduction, death); Agent N (villain, introduction, death); Dr. Hoto (villain, introduction); the Japanese (villains) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost of Al Margotti (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zero meets a chemist who has invented a "ghost disintegrator". |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Julie (introduction); Xavier Jones (chemist, introduction); Al Margotti (villain, a ghost, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Toni Blum is the only person identified by the Who's Who as the writer for this feature from 1940-43. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | The Origin of the Spider Widow (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A pair of mobsters visit Dianne's home, needing some gasoline for their getaway car. Dianne then donned an old green rubber mask, gathered some of her gardener's pet spiders, and hid inside the crook's trunk. When they arrived at the criminal's lair, she first learned that Lardo was sympathetic to Hitler, then scared his men with black widow spiders, over-coming all of them for the Police to round up. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton] (introduction, origin); Bob Ableson (friend of Dianne's, introduction); Jake Lardo (villain, introduction); Lardo's gang (villains, introduction for all); Hetzernoff (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | The Who's Who indicates Borth as not only creator of this strip, but the writer and artist as well. |
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| Comic Story | The Eastern Gangster Invasion (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner] |
| Notes | Signed in the last panel. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Mike Yemon's Protection Racket (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Mike Yemon and his gang (first appearance; villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Self-Stranglers (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Comic Story | Samar Vs. the Gorilla (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar; Otto (villain); another spy (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Black Dragon Society (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rusty and the Boyville Brigadiers decide to challenge the Black Dragon Society, and, to this end, accept a young Chinese woman, Moi Yutong, into their ranks. Soon after, she was kidnapped in front of their eyes, and it took some gunplay and rough stuff to rescue her. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong (introduction)]; The Black Dragon Society [a Moi Yutong impostor; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Text Story | Bloom's Death (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Richards of the Mounties |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw |
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