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| The Bozo the Robot vs The Clown story is very similar to the first Joker story in Batman #1 from 1940. A prominent legal figure is murdered with a chemical substance while police are guarding him. One of the local crime lords challenges the Clown, who murders him, just as Brute Nelson challenged the Joker. Still a fun read, though. |
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| Publication | August 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Mitch Mouldin (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | A gang member kidnaps some reporters and brings them to his boss. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Bud; Mitch Mouldin; Mike; Snapper; Mr. Humpel |
| Notes | Art credits revised from Lou Fine to Reed Crandall by Craig Delich 2011-27-11 per article/interview with Gill Fox in Alter-Ego #12 (January, 2002). The splash page for this story was reprinted in B/W. |
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| Synopsis | The king has to raise $7.65 for the national treasury. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: King Archie O'Toole; Jerk |
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| Comic Story | Liver-Lip McGaw (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doc Wackey creates a new invention he calls the Visoscope, with which he could survey any part of the city......an invention useful to Midnight in locating a nefarious villain. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Liver-Lip McGraw (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Captain Krawl (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Captain Krawl captures a battleship using a submarine and gas. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Spinner Benson; Captain Krawl; Captain Bennett |
| Notes | Wears a costume in this story. |
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| Synopsis | Hooded men rob the rich of their treasures. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phineas Barr; John Thorp; Joan Thorp; Tom Slade |
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| Comic Story | Sabotage at the Navy Yard (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mulligan is convinced the Jester is bad when he goes to arrest a man and the Jester shoves him in the river. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mulligan; Mike |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Basil's Gang (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Black X disguises himself as Old Basil and receives some photostats from the spies. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Batu; Colonel Atwater; Max; Hugo; Heinz |
| Notes | Williams is credited on drawing this feature.
Writer revision from Eisner to French by Craig Delich.
Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43). |
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| Comic Story | First Night (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rankin is ordered to arrest kids watching parked cars. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Nightstick Kane; Jimmy; Mr. Depopoloss |
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| Synopsis | Wun meets a crook worth $1,000 for capture. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo (detective); Poison Allity |
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| Comic Story | Introducing Wildfire (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young Carol Martin is given wondrous powers by the Lord of Fire, which she uses to combat the un-American activities of a group which has kidnapped a famed U.S. Senator, trying to get him to admit to the newspapers that America will not come to the aid of other democracies. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Frank Vance (Carol's father, death); Marie (Carol's maid); Lord of Fire; Mr. John Martin; Mrs. Martin; Senator Raymond; Heinrich (villain); Dolph (villain); Green Masked Bund (villains) |
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| Text Story | The Pall of Terror (1.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | For months a strange cloud covers Fertile Valley and prevents rain from falling. |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian; Jed Haggard; Professor Hervey |
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| Activity | Who's Missing from This Picture? |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Dot-to-dot puzzle. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | The Purple Trio discover a book of stock swindles. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Joe; Smokey Sam; J. C. Winsul |
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| Synopsis | Bozo faces a super-powered villain called The Clown, who kills with the aid of a poison. He leaves a card bearing his white-faced visage at the scene of the crime, with his sights set on taking over organized crime. Hazzard and Bozo track him down, but the Clown, by sheer brute force, throws the robot into the river. However, Bozo quickly recovers and tracks the Clown to his hideout and delivers a beating to the villain, then turns him over to the Police. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Clive Dow; The Clown (villain); Jeeves; Dip Downe |
| Notes | The opening portion is similar to the Joker's introduction in Batman #1. |
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| Synopsis | Kent shows off the Schwinn bicycle he got from the Movie Cyclorama. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Kent |
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| Synopsis | A boy rescues his dog. |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Scotty (dog); Tom; Mary |
| Notes | Tom is also called Bobbie.
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