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| Interesting visual interpretation by Louis Glanzman of the effects of drugs on page 56. |
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| Publication | November 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Featuring | Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Amazing Man [John Aman] |
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| Featuring | Stamps |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Page also includes indicia. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Biggest Dime's Worth of Thrills |
| Synopsis | Promo for Sure-Fire Comics and Super-Mystery Comics. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Also inside front cover. |
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| Synopsis | The Great Question seeks to destroy the oil fields in Wyoming but the Amazing Man intervenes to stop his henchmen. |
| Featuring | Aman the Amazing-Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Amazing-Man [John Aman]; Zona Henderson; Great Question; Operative Eight-Six (Great Question's agent); Slim (cowboy); Chuck (cowboy); Black Bull (renegade native); Joe Weltners (rancher) |
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| Synopsis | Minimidget and Ritty help their friend Sam stop cattle thieves at his ranch. |
| Featuring | Minimidget |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Minimidget; Ritty; Sam Reagan (Texan rancher) |
| Notes | Charles Verral has a Minimidget writing credit for 1941 in Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Is there any data to suggest THIS story is by him? |
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| Synopsis | Moose quits Avison's employ and assist Iron Skull in pursuing Avison's gang to Peru to prevent them from raiding an Incan site. Avison tries to rile up natives into killing Iron Skull but his invulnerable body causes the natives to take him for a god. |
| Featuring | Iron Skull |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Iron Skull; Moose; Chuck Lemerise; Al Avison; Professor Edmunds; Peep Eckley (guide) |
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| Comic Story | Shanghied! (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocke finds his friend Thad has been shanghaied by Walrus Blake. Rocke infiltrates the crew and leads a rebellion against Blake. Blake had been smuggling dope inside crates of silk. |
| Featuring | Rocke Wayburn |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Rocke Wayburn; Thad Burns [Rocke's friend]; Walrus Blake [smuggler]; John [sailor]; Molly Burns [Thad's wife] |
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| Text Story | Midnight Deadline (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | While going on vacation to Bermuda John Aman solves a murder committed using poison. |
| Featuring | Amazing-Man |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Amazing Man [John Aman]; Zona Henderson |
| Notes | Duke Carey is likely a pen-name. |
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| Synopsis | After a gorilla murders 22 people in a scheme inspired by Poe's 'Murders in the Rue Morgue,' Dr. Hypno places his mind inside another gorilla in order to capture the killer animal. The first gorilla had been set free by Scotty, who commits suicide. |
| Featuring | Doctor Hypno |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doctor Hypno; Wun; Scotty (zookeeper, dies) |
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| Synopsis | Mighty Man breaks up a mob who have been insuring people then killing them with Brazilian poison in order to collect on the policies. |
| Featuring | Mighty Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mighty Man (poses as Pat O'Riley); Jim Boyl (dead man) |
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| Synopsis | Using his new ability to walk on water the Shark battles a birdman. The birdman reveals himself to be scientist Jean Vigee-Le Brun, who shares his formula with the Shark. Then Eric kills Jean. Then Eric reveals Jean is actually his boss Joe Shapiro and isn't dead. Then Joe explains he hypnotized the Shark and virtually everything he saw was a trick. |
| Featuring | The Shark |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Shark; Eric (gunman); Father Neptune; Joe Shapiro (also as Jean Vigee-Le Brun) |
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| Synopsis | Reef and his friends return to the jungles of Brazil to learn where a golden knife originated from. They discover men dressed as alligators who try to sacrifice Marian to a pit of alligators. Reef saves Marian and they find a huge deposit of gold. |
| Featuring | Reef Kinkaid |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Reef Kinkaid; Dr. Lang; Marian Lang; Kobo (jungle guide); Alligator-Men (costumed men); Torrga |
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| Comic Story | Were You Born in November (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Facts about people born in November. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Marie Antoinette; Daniel Boone; Robert Fulton; Joe Dimaggio; Mark Twain |
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| Advertisement | This Beautiful Desk for only $1 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for a desk and typewriter from Remington. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Advertisement | Boys! Girls! Have You Seen Our New 1945 Catalog? (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for novelties from Johnson Smith & Company. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On back cover of comic. |
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