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| Publication | October 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Phantasmo's costume is mis-colored as flesh-color on the cover, making it appear that he is nude. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantasmo [Phil Anson] |
| Notes | Phantasmo's costume is mis-colored as flesh-color on the cover, making it appear that he is nude. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Dick Tracy is on the Trail Again! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Dick Tracy |
| Notes | Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Promo for Dick Tracy Four Color (Dell, 1939 series) #8. Interior panel and cover are depicted. |
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| Synopsis | Phantasmo and Whizzer make their way to California to visit Whizzer's cousin, who has been hearing strange noises from underneath his house. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantasmo [Phil Anson]; Whizzer McGee; Jerry (Whizzer's cousin); Captain Oaku (villain, death?); the Japanese (villains, many die) |
| Notes | original Dell hero |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: The Black Knight |
| Notes | Part of a continuing story. |
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| Synopsis | Mr. District Attorney breaks up an espionage ring. |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as EAP] (signed) | Inks:? [as EAP] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Mr. District Attorney |
| Notes | Signed "EAP" in next-to-last panel. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Read The Voice |
| Featuring | The Voice The Invisible Detective |
| Content | Characters: The Voice |
| Notes | Promo for "The Voice, the Invisible Detective" feature in Popular Comics featuring part of a page from a story. Promo takes up bottom third of page and left two-thirds of top of page. |
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| Advertisement | Stamps |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Classified ads for postage stamps. Section occupies right one-third of top two-thirds of the page. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Hi, Funnies' Fans... (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Contest in which the parts of a drawing have to be cut out and pasted together. The completed drawing is then sent in to enter the Dell Publishing Contest. Two first prizes of one boys' and one girls' Rollfast bicycles. Winners of the contest in War Comics #3 are also announced: Jane Cooper, Jacksonville, Fla., and Bobby Emery Wessick, Watertown, Mass. |
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| Synopsis | Rex and his submarine crew battle a band of "Fifth Columnists." |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Rex; Tim |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Signed "Hebb" in a circle in fifth panel on last page.
Art credits suggested by Who's Who in American Comic Books 1928-1999. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation |
| Notes | Initialed "R. L. J." on bottom of next-to-last page. |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: John Carter; Tars Tarkas; Dejah Thoris |
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| Text Story | Lucky Storm (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Text story with one illustration. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Easy; Wash Tubbs; Mary Lancaster |
| Notes | Dialogue is re-lettered. First part of a continued story. |
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| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Illustrated ad for novelties from Johnson Smith & Co., Detroit, Mich. |
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| Advertisement | Ready (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (additional art) | Inks:? (additional art) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Red Ryder; Little Beaver (cameo) |
| Notes | Back cover. Illustrated ad for Daisy 1000-shot Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine for $2.95. Several headshots of Red Ryder, one of Red Ryder on horseback, and small full-figure of Little Beaver. Daisy Manufacturing Co., Plymouth, Mich. |
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