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| Excellent early Golden Age book, great stories, including Rex Dexter's outer space adventure - WOW! Great book. Thank you, Yoc. |
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| Publication | August 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Characters: Green Mask [Michael Shelby] |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | A Modern Robin Hood (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Green Mask, along with News Blake, exposes a gang engaging in insurance fraud. |
| Content | Characters: The Green Mask [Michael Shelby] (introduction); "News" Blake; Rocky Vilon (villain, introduction, death); Cyrus Boomer (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | takes place after 1st story in Green Mask, The (Fox, 1940 series) #1 |
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| Comic Story | Origin of Rex Dexter of Mars (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rex Dexter (introduction, origin); Montague Dexter (introduction); Pres. Grover (introduction); Cynde (introduction); Boris Thorax (villain, introduction); Vesoff |
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| Comic Story | How To Become a Detective (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Billy Bounce (introduction); Midget Moe |
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| Comic Story | The Coming of Chen Chang (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Chen Chang (villain, introduction); Wong (villain, introduction); Richard Kendall (introduction); Decker; Mr. Denby |
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| Comic Story | Skulduggery on Smoky Mountain (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Thieves bring down a plane supposedly carrying $50,000 in gold. |
| Content | Characters: Wing Turner (introduction); The Chief (villain, introduction); Clutch (villain, introduction) |
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| Featuring | Real Life Personal Interviews with Famous Detectives |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Detective Barney Ruditsky |
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| Comic Story | Trapped by the Top (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zanzibar (introduction, a magician); The Top (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Case of Tintype's Will (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hemlock Shomes and Dr. Potsam travel to Old Man Tintype's mansion and try to figure out which one of the many men who claim to be his son actually killed him. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Hemlock Shomes (introduction); Dr. Potsam (introduction); Elmer T. Tintype (introduction); Sloppy Joe (introduction) |
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| Text Story | The Haunted House (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Mickey; Jerry; Pete; Joe Donner; Sgt. Matterson |
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| Comic Story | Trouble at Gun Hollow (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Waco Kid (introduction); Brazos Teale (villain, introduction); Craig Bridger (introduction); Flash (horse, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Another Bombing Outrage (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Inspector Bancroft (introduction); Inspector Grainger (introduction); Stuart Bledsoe (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Coming of the Blue Beetle (4 pages) |
| Content | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] (introduction); Mike Mannigan (introduction); The White Face Gang [John Brandes, others] (villains, introduction); Mr. Vander; Donnell; Abe |
| Notes | Blue Beetle wears business suit, mask, and hat in this story; no apparent super-powers; story chronologically follows 1st story in Blue Beetle (Fox, 1939 series) #1
This Blue Beetle was published by Fox, then Holyoke, then Fox again, and then Charlton before Charlton revamped Dan Garrett Blue Beetle with a new origin and powers in 1964, and later replaced him with a new Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) in 1967.
Throughout his early appearances, the Blue Beetle's last name varied between "Garret" and "Garrett", while Mike Mannigan sometimes had his last name spelled "Manigan". |
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| Comic Story | The Panama Canal Affair (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Richard foils a plot to sabotage the Panama Canal. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: D-13 [Richard Anthony] (introduction, a secret agent); Manata (villain, introduction); Sancho |
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| Comic Story | The Valley of the Dead (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Capt. Scott and the Bengal Lancers are given the task of capturing a group of cutthroats harassing caravans. |
| Content | Characters: Capt. Danny Scott of the Bengal Lancers (introduction) |
| Notes | For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Capt. Denny Scott". |
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| Comic Story | Saboteurs on the S. S. Regina (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Lt. Drake of Naval Intelligence (introduction); Lobardi (villain, introduction); Kutch (villain, introduction); a girl (villain, introduction) |
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| Featuring | Wonderworld Comics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. House ad for Wonderworld Comics. Includes a cover reproduction of Wonderworld Comics #4. |
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| Featuring | Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for the Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter. |
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