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| Publication | August 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Big John Fales |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith |
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| Comic Story | Big John Fales (11 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy [Buddy Smith]; Big John Fales (villain, introduction, death, but comes back as a ghost) |
| Notes | Story title taken from the cover. |
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| Comic Story | Watson (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Tonelli [Watson] (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Timid Librarian (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Homer Weeks (first appearance); Lefty (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | A Dream of Mars (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | After Mars, the god of war, had appeared to Adolf Hitler in his dreams, the Unknown received a message from the goddess of Victory. She broke him out of his jail cell and turned the tables on the Nazis. |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: The Unknown; Victory (introduction, a goddess); Victory's talking pigeon (introduction); Mars (villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Protest (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | Captain Eddie Hickens Down at Sea (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lt. Commander Harvey Blake; Capt. Eddie Hickens (first appearance); The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Story inspired by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's stranding at sea. |
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| Comic Story | The Living Dummy (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Kid Patrol; A living dummy (first appearance); Dr. Revalis (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Text Story | Skull Island (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Sweating Out the Japanese (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Quicksilver joins the Civil Air Patrol and is assigned to watch the South Pacific for Japanese activity. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; the apanese (villains) |
| Notes | In this story, Quicksilver claims that taking a "good swig of ocean water" keeps him in shape by replenishing his body's salts. |
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| Comic Story | #8: The Case of Death in a Crowded Room (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Nazi, King Spy, uses his 5th Column ring to take over a hotel in order to use it as a base to kill Washington D.C. officials. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: G-2 [Captain Don Leash]; Governor Tweed (introduction); Spana (introduction); Senator Hutton (introduction); King Spy (villain, introduction); other Nazi spies (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Art previously credited to "Don Rico ?" |
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