| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Yellowjacket (inset) |
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| Synopsis | A gang of crooks chasing a girl, enter the house of Vince Harley, crime fiction writer and beekeeper. The girl slips away and the gang decide to finish Vince off by dumping a hive full of yellowjacket bees inside his house. He is immune to bee stings, can even control them, and gets the idea of how to fight the gang in a yellowjacket outfit. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Yellowjacket [Vince Harley] (introduction; origin); Judy Graves; Jake Mallon (gang boss) |
| Notes | The crude figures and faces are similar to Battefield's credited stories in this series. |
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| Synopsis | On Mount Olympus, Zeus decides to let the gods come to the aid of the Allies in their fight against Japan and Germany. Diana is to help them in Greece. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy; Superhero | Characters: Diana the Huntress (introduction); Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia |
| Notes | The art here is similar to Schrotter's signed story in Heroic Comics (Eastern, 1943 series) #38. He has some special scrolls in the ears. |
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| Text Story | Message for the Cops (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Black Cat (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat" |
| Credits | Script:? (adaptation) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Pluto (black cat) |
| Notes | The very open eyes and soft, rounded inking and also movement is similar to Allison's many credited stories, like Blue Circle Comics #2, Camera Comics #1, Cowboy Western #38. |
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| Synopsis | Three trivia facts with illustrations |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Synopsis | A lion tamer is fired for being drunk, and Danny King gets his chance to handle the big cats and the vengeful ex-lion tamer. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Danny King (introduction); Russo; Lucy Flair; Whip Chandler |
| Notes | DeLay can be recognized by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | The Man Who Should Have Died (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A sailor is taken captive aboard a Nazi u-boat and lives to tell his story. |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Jack |
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| Synopsis | 8 gag panels |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | The Japanese march into Manila, and Juan takes up the fight against them. |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Juan Manito [Filipino Kid]; Felipe |
| Notes | Art was previously attributed to Gerald Altman, but the way the eyes, teeth, and ears are drawn more closely resembles those of Chu’s in his Green Turtle art from Blazing Comics (1944-1945). Some of the lettering on the torii on the splash page also matches the lettering on his signed Late Summer painting from 1934: http://chimericaneyes.blogspot.com/2014/01/about-artist-chu-f-hing.html |
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