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| Thanks for scanning this rarity, nice job!
Fun Fact, Peck Brothers (ifc ad) was one block from my childhood home. I walked by it every time I went to the local drugstore to buy a comic book. |
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| Publication | May 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Jane Arden; Wizard Wells (inset); Ned Bryant (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Story of Pug Brady (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A down and out-of-luck former heavyweight champion boxer and All-American fullback tries to steal Brian's watch. Later he follows the Clock and saves him from harm by Mayor Kozer, but kills the man in the process. Brian then covers for Brady, disguises himself as the Mayor and infiltrates the gang Kozer once led. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Big Shot [Mayor Kozer] (villain, introduction, death); Gaston; John Dooly; Dooly's daughter; Tony; Captain Kane |
| Notes | Feature continues from Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #31 (April 1940). |
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| Synopsis | Jane does a bit of research on Jim Southern when she suspects that there is something phoney about him. |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Detective-mystery | Characters: Jane Arden; Jim Southern [Tim Stratton]; Sue; Clarence |
| Notes | Feature continues from Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #31 (April 1940). The Jane Arden feature spans two pages and shares .25 of each page with a Lena Pry story. Each story page also includes a paper doll of Jane Arden and clothing. |
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| Comic Story | Lena Heads a Strike... |
| Synopsis | Lena leads a strike against the men to do no more work. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lena Pry |
| Notes | The Lena Pry story spans two pages with 75 percent of each page taken up by a Jane Arden feature. |
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| Synopsis | Jane and Jim investigate a murder on a train. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Jane Arden; Sue; Jim Porter; Captain Spence |
| Notes | The Jane Arden feature spans two pages and shares .25 of each page with a Lena Pry story. Each story page includes a paper doll of Jane Arden's wardrobe for men. |
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| Synopsis | Lena refuses to feed Dan'l until he completes his chores. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lena Pry; Dan'l |
| Notes | The Lena Pry story spans two pages with 75 percent of each page taken up by a Jane Arden feature. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Smith; Maw; Pa; dentist |
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| Comic Story | Introducing Rock Braddon (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: The Space Legion (introduction); Rock Braddon (introduction); Captain Graves (introduction); Harg (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | The Space Legion was set in the future, when all nations of Earth were at peace.....but not so in space. Braddon commandered the ship "Mercury" and his home base was the city of Metropolis. At this time, there was a civilization on Mars. |
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| Comic Story | The Sign of the Cricket (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | With the city in the grip of terror perpetrated by the Cricket, who, like the Spider, left a calling card at the scene of his crimes. With cunning, the Spider tracked him down and sent him to a watery grave. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Cricket (villain, introduction, death); The Crickets (villains, introduction for all); Stevens |
| Notes | The Spider was a supreme archer who crafted a special kind of arrow that burst into flame as it was fired. The arrow's tip left behind the Spider's mark: a scarab-like medallion, that served as a warning. |
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| Cartoon | Jimmy Stewart (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Jimmy Stewart; Anna Mae Wong |
| Notes | Feature continues from Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #3 (October 1939). |
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| Comic Story | Too Hot to Hold (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wizard and Tug help the Perry's avoid extortion. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Wizard Wells (inventor, introduction); Tug (introduction, Wells' partner); Black Morda (villain, introduction); Mary Perry; Mr. Perry |
| Notes | Wells was a former All-American halfback, now inventor. Despite his athletic background, Wells disliked physical combat and preferred to help people by using his wits. His solutions usually centered around the electromagnetic spectrum of energies, i.e. infrared, ultraviolet light, microwaves and electric eyes. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Molly the Model (first appearance); Danny; Nifty; Mr. Maloney |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Ned Brant; Gail Donaldson; Mr. Meegan; Bud Shekels; Jake |
| Notes | Feature was continued from Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #31 (April 1940). |
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| Comic Story | Lee Gets Her Wings (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Lee Preston (introduction, origin; Red Cross nurse and pilot); Mr. Preston (Lee's father, introduction); Rick Royce (introduction); Jeff Dickers |
| Notes | The Who's Who says that Terrance McAully was a house name Powell used while at Quality Comics.
Cross was an intrepid young aviatrix who got her pilot's license, then flew the world to lend a hand. |
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| Comic Story | Love Bird's Brain Test (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Little Butch; Nibbsy; Prince Alexis; Marjorie Daisy Whimple de Bass; Anna Smythe |
| Notes | Feature was continued from Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #31 (April 1940). |
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| Comic Story | Origin of the Red Torpedo (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | When U.S. Navy man Jim Lockhart invented a human-guided, one-man submarine, his superiors in the military reject it. Not to be deterred, he took his invention to the private sector and, with his fiancee Meg, built it on their own. Then, donning his distinctive uniform, he saves an American ship from European aggressors. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Meg (Jim's fiancée); Captain Wells (introduction); The Nazis (villains) |
| 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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| Text Story | Corning's Mistake (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | John Corning discovers that he made a mistake in constructing his building and needs to correct it somehow. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Big Bull Belding; John Corning; Bates; Betty Stevens |
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| Cartoon | That Battle of the World's Greatest Hurlers (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A synopsis of George Saling's hurdle race at the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles in 1932. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: George Saling; Keller; Beard |
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| Comic Story | Origin of Madam Fatal (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Former actor John Stanton, posing as an old woman, does everything he can to track down a man he has been searching for for years, John Carver. Stanton had married the woman Carver loved, but Carver became jealous and, two years later, kidnapped Stanton's only daughter. Now the two come face to face, and all Stanton cares about now is if his daughter is still alive. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hamlet (Madam Fatal's parrot); Sarah; Mr. Porter (postman); Johnny; Reeves (Carver's driver); Mrs. Stanton (Richard's wife, death); un-named daughter of the Stanton's; John Carver (villain, introduction, death); Lou (villain); Mike (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Invasions Stopped Free of Charge! (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Slap Happy Pappy (first appearance); Flip (first appearance); The Nazis (villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Man Who Can Fly Like a Bird (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Saved by his mother from a group of raiders who had murder his father, infant Grey is raised by condors with whom he seems to connect, and, as he grows, he studies the mechanics of flight, which he eventually succeeds in emulating. Taken in by a kindly Monk, Grey takes revenge on Gali Khan for killing the Monk and swears a life-long effort to bring evil doers to justice. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mr. Richard Grey (introduction, death); Mrs. Richard Grey (introduction, death); Father Pierre (introduction, death); Yakki Raiders (villains, introduction); Gali Kan (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Richard Grey Jr. will assume the identity of Senator Thomas Wright in issue #11.
Oddity: in this story only, his costume is colored red. |
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