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| Publication | August 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Merlin the Magician (inset); Wonder Boy (inset); Sally O'Neill (inset) |
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| Comic Story | Smashing the Enemies of Free Speech! (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sam takes on J. P. Potter, who was sickening kids with inferior candy. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Senator Grover (introduction); Miss Grover (introduction); Casey (introduction); J. P. Potter (villain, death) |
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| Comic Story | Wings of Death Over London (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Prop Powers |
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| Comic Story | The "Death" of Barry Gilmore (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Barry Gilmore (first appearance); The Boss (first appearance, villain, death); Tony (first appearance, villain); other gangsters (first appearance, villains) |
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| Comic Story | The Unkillable Man (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Pen Miller; Tony Torpedo (first appearance, villain); Milligan (first appearance) |
| Notes | This story based on the true case of Michael Malloy (1933). |
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| Comic Story | The Evictor (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Kid Patrol; Primo Andriola (first appearance); Mrs. Morgan (first appearance); Mr. Meagre (first appearance, villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Pirates and the Buddha's Eyes (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Wonder Boy; The Mongolians (villains); pirates (first appearance, villains); A Buddhist priest (first appearance); the priest's daughter (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | The Winged People (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Cyclone; A tribe of winged people (introduction); King Zarxas (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Tony Rawlins was a by-line on this feature and was not necessarily a real person. |
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| Comic Story | Bout with Slugger Sweeney (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Kid Dixon [Danny "Kid" Dixon]; Slugger Sweeney (first appearance, villain); his manager (first appearance, villain); a crumb (first appearance; villain); Jennie Barley (first appearance); Mr. Barley (first appearance) |
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| Text Story | Yankee Doodle Boy (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Yankee Doodle Boy |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Yankee Doodle Boy [Jimmy Jones] |
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| Comic Story | Fight with Mike Disogra (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Paul Bunyan; Mike Disogra (first appearance, villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | In the Land of the Dead (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Merlin continues his travels to the River Styx, where he saves a wayward damsel from a dead Prince. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; Lord Elliot (introduction, death); Sybil Elliot (introduction); Rajah Singh-Abeem (villain, introduction); Prince Singh-Abeem (villain, introduction, a ghost, death in flashback); Abdul (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Lance Blackwood, according to the Who's Who, is a by-line found on this strip, and is also the pen name of Dan Zolnerowich. |
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