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| This certainly is an offbeat item in every way! I love encountering these obscure titles with no familiar characters whatsoever. It's as if it slipped in from a parallel world. Most entertaining! |
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| Weird--I wonder why they decided to go with "landscape" binding instead of "portrait" binding like every other publisher. But then this was the dawn of comic books. Maybe there was space on magazine stands for odd-shaped comics. |
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| "-I wonder why they decided to go with "landscape" binding instead of "portrait" binding"
Most of these look like SUNDAYS, rather than daily strips. Landscape was the normal format for SUNDAYS and still is. Would have been easier and cheaper to print them that way rather than reformat them into Portrait.
Sure are an obscure bunch of strips tho.
Oddly, the ADs are portrait ! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Featuring | Adventures of the Red Mask |
| Content | Genre: Jungle |
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| Featuring | Adventures of the Red Mask |
| Credits | Script: George West [as Geo. West] (signed) | Pencils: George West [as Geo. West] (signed) | Inks: George West [as Geo. West] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Nina; Danny; Colonel Trent; Robert Fear; Miranda; Mombasa |
| Notes | copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp. Pages numbered 8 -13.
The Red Mask is the first African or minority hero in comics and is depicted as black-skinned on the cover of the first issue, but is depicted as a white-skinned hero on the cover of this issue, as well as the subsequent issues 3 and 4. His skin-tone alternates between black and white throughout the interior story pages (including panels where parts of his body have different skin coloring). |
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| Text Story | Rescued by the Masked Rider (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script:? [as Sam Brant] | Pencils: "HE"? | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | "Sam Brant" was a house name used at Thrilling (Standard - Pines) from at least 1934 - 1956.
The Masked Rider first appeared in the pulp magazine The Masked Rider (Ranger Pub. Inc., 1934 series) v1#1 (April 1934). The magazine was taken over by Pines with Masked Rider Western Magazine (Better Pub. Inc., 1938 series) v4#2 (March 1938), and continued publication to Masked Rider Western (Better Pub. Inc., 1938 series) v33#1 (April 1953). |
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| Featuring | Silly Willie |
| Credits | Script: Loy Byrnes [as Roy B. Nyles] (signed) | Pencils: Loy Byrnes [as Roy B. Nyles] (signed) | Inks: Loy Byrnes [as Roy B. Nyles] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Silly Willie |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strips numbered 10 - 18. |
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| Credits | Script: Kin Platt | Pencils: Kin Platt [as Kin] | Inks: Kin Platt [as Kin] |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strip numbered 6 |
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| Text Story | Chab's Jungle Friends (3 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Capt. Kerry McRoberts | Letters: Typeset |
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| Featuring | Adventures of Nervy Nerts |
| Credits | Script: George Scott | Pencils: George Scott (signed) | Inks: George Scott (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Nervy Nerts (introduction) |
| Notes | Copyright 1937 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strips numbered 27 - 29 |
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| Comic Story | No Fishing! (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Kin Platt | Pencils: Kin Platt [as Kin] | Inks: Kin Platt [as Kin] |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
strip is numbered 7 |
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| Featuring | Peggy Wow |
| Credits | Script: Ray McGill | Pencils: Ray McGill (signed) | Inks: Ray McGill (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strips numbered 10 - 17 |
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| Credits | Script: Kin Platt | Pencils: Kin Platt [as Kin] | Inks: Kin Platt [as Kin] |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strip #8 |
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| Featuring | Jigger |
| Credits | Script: Gus Jud (signed) | Pencils: Gus Jud (signed) | Inks: Gus Jud (signed) |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
strips numbered 10 - 17 |
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| Credits | Script: Kin Platt | Pencils: Kin Platt [as Kin] | Inks: Kin Platt [as Kin] |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strip #9 |
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| Featuring | Pop's Night Out |
| Credits | Script: Dick Dorgan (signed) | Pencils: Dick Dorgan (signed) | Inks: Dick Dorgan (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Numbered 10 - 17 |
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| Comic Story | Ball game 50 cents (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Kin Platt | Pencils: Kin Platt [as Kin] | Inks: Kin Platt [as Kin] |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Strip #10 |
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| Featuring | The Jamms |
| Credits | Script: Crawford Young | Pencils: Crawford Young | Inks: Crawford Young |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Copyright 1936 Syndicated Features Corp.
Stips numbered 10 - 16 |
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