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| Quality comics like this one had an extremely high level of artwork -- and it was rather consistent in "house" style, despite multiple artists. An added bonus: Wildfire, possibly one of the sexiest female superheroes of the Golden Age. |
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| Publication | October 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Espionage [Black X] (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Death of Midnight!! (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Midnight tumbles to his death from a battle with Cyclops Ceylon, is declined entrance to heaven, and asks to be sent to Hell so he can fight the Devil himself, only to find out the Mrs. is in charge, who subjects him to unspeakable tortures. Meanwhile, a strange Professor bargains with Doc Wackey, and offers to exchange his life for Midnight's. The gambit works, and Midnight leaves Hell just as he'd convinced its inmates to revolt (and prevent further Nazi evils in the "waking world"). |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); The Professor; Cyclops Ceylon (villain); Satan (villain); Mrs. Satan (villain) |
| Notes | Storyline continued in the next issue.
On the splash page, Gabby announced that the feature was now 9 pages in length (the 9 page stories actually begin with issue #35). |
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| Comic Story | The Vengeance (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X and Batu head for the orient in search of the elusive "V Man" and are nearly destroyed by Vengeance. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu (Espionage's aide); The Vengeance (villain, death); The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Writer credits by Craig Delich.
Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43). |
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| Comic Story | Exact Double (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Toole |
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| Comic Story | Micky Kane (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wildfire gives Micky Kane a special flame so that he can call her whenever he's in trouble, and he soon discovers a need for it when a group of hoods decides to pilfer an invention of Tom Kane.....a special antidote for poison gas! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Micky Kane; Tom Kane (Micky's brother); group of thugs (villains) |
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| Synopsis | The Professor creates a spray that reduces a person's size, so the Jester must face a gang of three inch tall bank robbers. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Johnson (bank teller); Professor (villain); Professor's gang (villains) |
| Notes | Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | The Scrap Metal HiJackers (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Henry Vaun |
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| Comic Story | Hammer Hand (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Happy Terrill, framed for bank robbery by Hammer Hand, a criminal with a mallet for a hand, is arrested for the crime and loses his job as reporter. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Terrill's newspaper editor; Hammer Hand (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Whiner (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; The Whiner |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Warren; Rocky Hill; Tiny Todd] |
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| Text Story | The Wall of Invisible Fire (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Diane's Revenge (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | After Diane's father is killed, she and Wings fly a suicide mission over Germany to try and kill Hitler. |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Westcott (dies); Diane Westcott |
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| Synopsis | Major Hurtz claims to have killed the Marksman as a way of getting invited to Berlin. There, he frees a Polish inventor and smuggles him to Africa in a bomb casing. After the Marksman has freed the Pole, Hitler himself reprimands Major Hurtz. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Wakovsky (Polish inventor); Adolf Hitler (villain) |
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