| Additional Information |
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| Publication | Winter 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Triumph |
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| Comic Story | The Will of Esau Flinter (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Esau Flinter decides to leave all to charity, upsetting his heirs greatly and resulting in his murder before he can change the will. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Triumph [Lance Gallant]; Esau Flinter (first appearance; death); Derwood (first appearance); Lola Flinter (first appearance); Charity Parker (first appearance); Jevons (first appearance; villain); Joab Parker (first appearance; villain); Biff; Kim Meredith |
| Notes | Same artist as previous issue. Not Ed Dobrotka. |
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| Comic Story | The Sleepwalking Woodchopper (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The State Pen Scam (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pen exposes conditions at the State Pen. They're too good. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Pen Miller; Warden of the state penitentiary (first appearance; villain); Biff Leary (first appearance; villain); Joe (first appearance; villain); Chop Chu |
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| Comic Story | The Phony Cab (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Hack O'Hara; Pete Neff (first appearance; villain); Jake (first appearance; villain); Mac (first appearance; villain); Al (first appearance; villain) |
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| Synopsis | Molly gets dressed up to go to a high society party then learns it's a "ragamuffin party for the Red Cross." |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Molly the Model [Maloney]; Danny Deever |
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| Synopsis | A man buys a painting of a scantily-clad Molly and his wife isn't pleased. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Molly the Model [Maloney] |
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| Synopsis | Maloney tries to teach a boy to whistle and a passing dowager takes offense. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Molly the Model [Maloney]; Maloney; Pindorp Fitzdippy |
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| Comic Story | The Fox's Poker Lesson (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Floogy the Fiji |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Last appearance of Rube Goldberg's Side Show in Crack Comics. Occasional strips will be reprinted elsewhere in the future, but not as a regular feature. |
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| Text Story | Big Red (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Eric Vale |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Eric Vale |
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| Synopsis | Beezy's attempt to become a detective goes awry. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Beezy Bumble; Harry S. Truman; J.B.; William Wowser |
| Notes | On page 1, in a fantasy sequence, Beezy meets President Truman and possibly J.Edgar Hoover of the F.B.I. (who is only shown from behind so his identity isn't confirmed). |
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| Comic Story | Big Stage Star (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Inkie solves a crime- in a puppet show. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Inkie; Vance (first appearance; villain); King Tot (first appearance; marionette); Nero (first appearance; marionette) |
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