| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Characters: America's Fighting Twins [Yank; Doodle] |
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| Comic Story | Case of the Crooked Clown! (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Funnibone helps Roger Smith from being electrocuted in the chair and Smith agrees to aid the criminal in his pursuits of destroying democracy in America if Funnibone agrees to seek out and destroy the duo that put him in the chair to begin with: Yank and Doodle. Funnibone agrees, but pulls a double-cross on Smith, or so it seems. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Yank and Doodle [Yank [Dick Walters]; Doodle [Rick Walters]]; Uncle Bob Walters; prison warden; Charley (U.S. Assay Office worker, introduction); Funnibone (villain, introduction); Rudolf Schmidt [aka Roger Smith] (villain, Gestapo agent) |
| Notes | Script credit by Craig Delich, courtesy of the Who's Who, which lists Norris as the scripter through 1942 (no scripters listed after 1942).
For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Yank and Doodle, America's Fighting Twins". |
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| Comic Story | The Commandos Are Coming (8 pages) |
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| Content | Characters: Dr. Frost; Prof. Grubman (first appearance, villain) |
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| Synopsis | Jean calls Jethro and asks him to come over as the Green Lama to the Indian Museum to meet her uncle and curator of the museum. Dr. Sommervell feels that the museum's Iroquois Tablets are phony but can't figure out why, so The Lama enters the Realm of History to discover the truth. There, in 1204, a spitting image of Dr. Sommerville as a Sachem is falsely accused of stealing the tablets and he gives the real tablets back to his own time, and they are presented to Dr. Sommervell and Mr. Dumm, as well as having Slippery Sam and the Red Gang arrested for plotting to steal the tablets. |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Binder | Inks: Jack Binder |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]; Tsarong; Jean Parker (Dumont's assistant); Dr. Sommervell (Jean's Uncle, introduction); Sachem [Dr. Sommervell's spirit] (death); Mr. Dumm (banker); Cassidy (a Policeman); Slippery Sam (villain); The Red Gang (villains) |
| Notes | The last 1/3 of page 8 is an illustrated ad for Cowboy Movie Thrillers. |
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| Content | Characters: Frankenstein; Dr. Ullrich (obscure student of anatomy, first appearance, death); Mrs. Frankenstein (first appearance, a female monster, death) |
| Notes | Dr. Ullrich has found Victor Frankenstein's original notes and creates a Bride for the monster |
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| Comic Story | Horse Laugh (2 pages) |
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| Content | Characters: Buck Sanders (curious boy); Mr. Scrooge (first appearance); Nazi fifth-columnists |
| Notes | Art was previously attributed to Munson Paddock, but the art is distinctly different from the Buck Saunders art in Headline Comics #13-18 (1945-1946), which more closely resembles Paddock’s general style, such as his use of big eyes, long noses, and starry visuals for energetic movement. |
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| Text Story | Hands Across the Ocean (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Pencils: Jack Binder | Inks: Jack Binder |
| Content | Characters: The Black Owl [Doug Danville]; The Laughing Head (first appearance, villain) |
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