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| Includes Will Eisner story "Muss 'Em Up", starting on page 50. |
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| the whole book kinda reads like a pre batman issue of detective comics which is a good thing love the will eisner muss em up story lol |
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| it's interesting that this book is called Keen detective funnies because it is very different from the funnies style comic books prevelent at this time.The book has complete adventure stories with very nice art that comes to a creshendo when you finally get to Muss EM up a brilliant Will Eisner comic.
This book was kind of ideological in that all the villians were foriegners either asian, south American or Aztecs being easily fooled and manipulated by a nefarious white guy. Eisner's story was about a cop celebrated for the level of his brutality and it seems like Eisner really raised the level of darkness and brutality in comics with this story, I think it pre dates the emergence of Film Noir by several years. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Pyramid of Death |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dean Denton |
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| Comic Story | Pyramid of Death (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dean Denton |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Forsyth; Sergeant MacLean |
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| Synopsis | Dan is sent to New York to break up a dangerous dope ring and discovers an old smuggling racketeer posing as a fortune teller....and he smells a rat! |
| Content | Characters: Dan Dennis; Inspector Joe Tickner; Chop Quiderio (villain); Achmet (villain, huge giant) |
| Notes | Printed in black and white. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Crane |
| Notes | Printed in duotone.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dan Dix |
| Notes | Printed in duotone. |
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| Comic Story | Shark (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dave and Shorty run into smugglers while fishing for sharks. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dave Dean; Shorty |
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| Comic Story | Racing Against Doom (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Capt. Steve Ransom |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Captain Steve Ransom |
| Notes | Printed in black and white. |
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| Text Story | Murder Story (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Boomerang (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Mr. Lewis; Jake; Billy |
| Notes | Printed in duotone. |
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| Comic Story | Muss 'Em Up (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hammer Donovan is called back onto the Police force, with no legal limitations, to track down a notorious killer and his gang that have been bumping off cops, and whose identity and whereabouts are being protected by the underworld. |
| Featuring | Hammer Donovan |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Hammer Donovan; Captain Spencer; Fen Soo (Donovan's servant); Mike Morelli (villain); Tony (villain, death); Curley [aka as Curly] (villain, death); Hophead Harry (villain) |
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| Comic Story | A Slight Error (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Neil "Lucky" Coyne; Mike McDune; Killer Sloane; Dr. Samuel Brown |
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| Content | Characters: Gabby Flynn |
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| Comic Story | J. Edgar Hoover (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Fact page. |
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