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Interesting book - and a title that I hadn't spotted before. Thank you! |
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Publication | February 1943 | Price: 0.10 CAD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every month |
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Featuring | Captain Marvel Jr. |
Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel Jr [Freddy Freeman] |
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Publisher advertisement | Who Makes A Hit With All The Family? (1 page) |
Synopsis | Promo for Captain Marvel Comics, showing two kids reading comics and a grandmother knitting. |
Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
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Comic Story | The Cracked Safecracker (12 pages) |
Synopsis | Captain Marvel Jr. saves an older couple from being run over. He figures out that their estranged son is Bull Bimmens, a famous safe-cracker, and decides to get them together. |
Featuring | Captain Marvel Jr. |
Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel Jr; Bull Bimmens |
Notes | Script from Fawcett comic with new artwork for Canadian market. Title from contents page of original comic. |
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Comic Story | Wings Over Dazaggar (17 pages) |
Synopsis | Captain Marvel Jr. goes to Dazaggar in Africa to fight Captain Nazi and prevent him from taking it over. |
Featuring | Captain Marvel Jr. |
Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Captain Nazi; Adolf Hitler |
Notes | Script from Fawcett comic with new artwork for Canadian market. |
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Synopsis | The Crusaders return to help the Russians against the Nazis in the snow. |
Featuring | The Crusaders |
Credits | Script: Les Gilpin (credited) | Pencils: Ed Furness (credited) | Inks: Ed Furness (credited) |
Content | Genre: War; Science Fiction |
Notes | Story is credited to Les Gilpin and Ed Furness but breakdown of who did what is not specified. |
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Comic Story | Mystery at Blackstone Manor (14 pages) |
Synopsis | "A cunning plot is hatched to seize the 'Wondership', a new secret bomber. With Jerry's quick wits and Pat's knowledge of Morse Code, they keep the Nazis from gaining possession of it...." (from the first page of the comic) |
Featuring | Pat The Air Cadet |
Credits | Script: Macduff (credited) | Pencils: Macduff (credited) | Inks: Macduff (credited) | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Pat; Jerry; Gwen; Lady Blackstone; Lady Stuffington |
Notes | Last page includes a short biography of Samuel Morse, a Morse code alphabet and a quiz. |
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Synopsis | Janie and Jimmy sneak out at night to have an adventure but end up having to be saved from an army firing range. Private Penny shrinks down to the size of an elf to entertain them in a fox-hole. |
Featuring | Pte. Penny |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Private Penny; Janie; Jimmy |
Notes | Appears to be the same artist as the two Captain Marvel Jr. stories in this issue. |
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Publisher advertisement | Read Three Aces Comics (1 page) |
Synopsis | Promo for Three Aces Comics, including small pictures of Bulletman and Bulletgirl, Deadline and his pal Doc Gordon, Sooper Dooper and Men of the Mounted. |
Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
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