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| Publication | April 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly except December and June |
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| Cover | The Maze of Murder! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Mickey Finn (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Merry Maze of Murder (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | Merry Hart spends fortunes building practical jokes and tricks to shock or scare her guests. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Conroy (first appearance; villain); Merry Hart (first appearance); Ned Byrd (first appearance) |
| Notes | Tilting figures with long upper body and awkward way of standing and walking, some wild eyes, and also broad shoulders and narrow head on stretched neck are all pointing to Zolnerowich. He is credited on both pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but inking vary, so uncertain. |
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| Comic Story | Cannibal Cuisine (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]; T. Abercrombo Gitch (villain, introduction); Throckmorton (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Musical Sheriff of Murder Gap (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Jem Hawkins (first appearance); Pistol Pete Martin (first appearance; villain) |
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| Synopsis | Vince, told to bring a "service man" home for dinner, picks up an attractive WAC (Women's Army Corps). Lala isn't happy and is even less so when the "WAC" admits she's a chorus girl appearing in "G.I. Jane's Musical Show!" |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza |
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| Synopsis | Lala says her fiance Chauncey told her he has "an extra fine cellar" for Vincent. Vincent thinks it's a wine cellar, but it's just a regular cellar where Vincent can sleep on a cot and tend the furnace. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza; Chauncey Chuckle |
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| Synopsis | Vincent admires the bathing beauties on the beach and chooses one at random to say "Hello" to--he's arrested as a "beach wolf," having picked the "only lady cop on duty." |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza |
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| Comic Story | The Land of Poker (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky; The Joker (first appearance) |
| Notes | The Joker is not the Batman villain! |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Text Story | Old Eric's Ghost (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Comic Story | The Super Dooper Jeep (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Comic Story | A Battle over Silk Stockings? (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Sugi San (first appearance); another girl (first appearance); Admiral Shanso (first appearance; villain); the Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Heads in 3/4 backview with streched neck and the jawbone going back behind the ear, even in side view, is peculiar. This can be found in his credited "Mike Gibbs Guerilla" story in Adventure Comics #88. Most probably him on this story. |
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| Synopsis | Assigned to greet a new circus employee, Butch imagines her to be a slim beauty. Instead, the young woman is brawny and better suited to driving tent stakes than posing in scanty attire. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Synopsis | Butch's exaggerations ruin Jeff's chance to secure some wealthy investors in the circus. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Comic Story | The Japanese Hypnotist (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; unnamed hypnotist (villain, introduction) |
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