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| Lou Fine and Paul Gustavson at the top of their game! Gorgeous scan and thanks for this magnificent contribution. |
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| Publication | September 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Jane Arden (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Ghost-Gun Killer (9 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Jasper Crow (villain); the Ghost-Gun Killer (villain, introduction) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Red Torpedo vs. the Black Shark (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Black Shark (villain) |
| Notes | The Who's Who suggests, as do Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash in the Quality Companion, that Kiefer, not only created this feature, but did the art for it through the strip's entire run. Kiefer is also usually considered to have written it.
Drew Allen is Kiefer's pen-name used on the strip. |
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| Comic Story | The Sabotaged Submarine (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Comic Story | The Tobacco Juice Spitter (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Outlaws of Jupiter (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Blackbeard (first appearance; villain); One-Arm Ganz (first appearance; villain); Patch-Eye Tork (first appearance; villain); Half-Face McGurk (first appearance; villain); a girl (first appearance; villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Drama |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Death at Rustling Willow (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Jean Horton (introduction); Sutton (villain, introduction); Pierre (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
The Spider's secret identity was obscured until this story, when he was officially named Tom Hallaway. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports |
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| Comic Story | The Phony Radio Beam (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Chuck Bolton (first appearance); Captain Schloss (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Text Story | Lake of Missing Men (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Eric Vale |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Eric Vale |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Five Bloodstones of Mu (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Basil (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprint |
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| Comic Story | The Revenge of Bat Nillon (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Bat Nillon (first appearance; villain) |
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