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| Thank you, Soothsayr, for adding this wild book! I'd never heard of it before and really enjoyed it. It certainly was not what I expected after looking at the cover. The story about the Japanese being sent to the incinerator and going up in smoke was certainly something else! Also a Rube Goldberg strip, as well - wowwee! Thanks again. |
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| Never thought Philo Vance ever got his own comic,
seems I was wrong. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Colors:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: A beautiful girl; three servicemen |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Printed in black and red.
The girl is in her slip wearing billboards announcing part of the contents. The billboards seem to be see-through and she attracts the undivided attention of the three servicemen.
Art credits uncertain, but the three servicemen do show some similarity to Walt Kelly's artwork in the "Seaman Sy Wheeler" story. |
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| Synopsis | Rusty, Brune and Donner escape Keene's raid of the spys' hotel in Panama City, Rusty posing as spy queen Madam Q. Their plane crashes in the Brazilian jungle, and the spies and Rusty are captured by indians. Brune and Donner escape the indian camp, but are killed by curare darts. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Rusty O'Reilly; Major Keene; Brune (spy); Donner (spy) |
| Notes | Last appearance.
Many violent actions throughout - a pilot being thrown out of a flying plane, an Indian being shot in the back, and the two villains being shot to death by curare darts. Derogatory description of the Amazon Indians throughout: "Head hunters". |
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| Synopsis | The two Pepsi-Cola cops melt the ice off of an airplane's wings with toasted bread. |
| Featuring | Pepsi and Pete, the Pepsi-Cola Cops |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pepsi; Pete; Waldo |
| Notes | Advertisement for Pepsi Cola in comic story form. |
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| Comic Story | The Setting of the Rising Sun (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Japanese have dug a tunnel beneath the Pacific all the way to New York, planning an invasion. The protagonists by accident discover the plan and conquer the entire Japanese army. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Hank; Lank; Bubbles; Lord High Mucki-Muck; General Fanny-Hang-Low |
| Notes | Very violent ending: The Japanese emperor and the entire army are thrown into garbage trucks and being cremated at the Municipal Incinerator. |
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| Synopsis | Lifebuoy soap makes a private ready for a date even after an entire day of K.P. |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Advertisement in comic strip form for Lifebuoy Health Soap. |
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| Text Story | Red-Bearded Fakir of Ipi (1 page) |
| Featuring | True Spy Stories |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Spy |
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| Comic Story | Sherman Was Right, Especially When You're Dealing With the Weaker Sex (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sy and Clarence ride to a weekend in the country on a train, but women keep falling into Sy's arms whenever his fiancée Kitty appears. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Syclops "Sy" Wheeler; Clarence; Kitty; Tootsie; a young lady on the train; the young lady's boychild |
| Notes | Last appearance.
Kelly draws a caricature of himself as a ticket seller on pg. 2. The young lady's boychild is a caricature of Disney animator Ward Kimball. |
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| Credits | Pencils:? [as dm] (signed) | Inks:? [as dm] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Erotica |
| Notes | Six more or less scantily clad young women delivering double entendres about servicemen on the phone. |
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| Comic Story | The Chicago Express Mystery (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The heiress to a big fortune becomes cataleptic on a train, and Philo - accidentally present on board the same train - solves the mystery. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Philo Vance; Skittles; Mary Doval; Charles Foster; miss Barkley; Dr. Bradley |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Text Story | The Ordeal of Edith Cavell (1 page) |
| Featuring | True Spy Stories |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Spy |
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| Featuring | Mollé Mike |
| Credits | Pencils: "Butch" (credited) | Inks: "Butch" (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mollé Mike; two high ranking army officers |
| Notes | Advertisement for Mollé shaving cream in comic strip form. |
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| Text Story | Haile Selassie's Native Girl-Spy (1 page) |
| Featuring | True Spy Stories |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Spy |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for GEM Clog-pruf [sic!] razor and blades. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Erotica |
| Notes | No title, but clearly same setup as feature no. 9. |
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| Comic Story | Three Wishes (1 page) |
| Synopsis | If granted three wishes the protagonist would wish for opportunities to murder Hitler, and hurt Mussolini and Hirohito. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Pre-war reference: mentioning Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | No title, and not using telephones as props, but otherwise similar in setup to feature no. 9, and possibly same artist. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for Friends smoking tobacco. Printed in black and red. |
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| Text Story | Dear Ethel (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bingle and his pal, Corporal Gilligan visit Gilligan's grandfather, Major Brewster, who was in the Spanish-American war. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustrations) | Inks:? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: W.B. Bingle; Gilligan; Major Brewster |
| Notes | War reference: Fear of Nazi invasion to the US. |
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| Activity | Winners in Camp Comics $100 Contest |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Winners of the contest in issue #1. |
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| Advertisement | Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder ..." |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustrations) | Inks:? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Printed in black and red. Advertisement for Barbasol Service Special shaving cream. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four cartoons. |
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| Synopsis | During the court case of the five cow herders trying to kill Rimfire [ref. Camp Comics #2], sheep herders drive a huge flock of sheep through cow country, and the sheep/cattle war breaks out again. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Rimfire Ferguson; Elizabeth Hardy; Broder (cow herder, villain); Honest Sam Steele; Sheriff Boyle; Mike Gorrel (sheep herder, villain) |
| Notes | The "Rimfire Ferguson" feature appears next in Super Comics (Western, 1938 Series) #63 (August 1943).
Signature on last page. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Inside back cover, printed in black and red. Four cartoons. |
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| Advertisement | 28% Less Nicotine (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Colors:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Test pilot Marshall Headle |
| Notes | Back cover. Advertisement for Camel cigarettes. |
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