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| Publication | December 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); The Caveman |
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| Comic Story | Cave-Man Menace (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sir Squinchworth brings back his latest discovery from Siberia, a living caveman. Midnight assists the mistreated Zor, and helps him escape from the Dingling Brothah's Circus, where he discovers additional sad homemade freaks. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sir Squinchworth; Lady Squinchworth; Zor the Caveman; Two-Face (villain)(see notes below) |
| Notes | A villain named Two-Face sends a letter at the very end of this story challenging Midnight to a fight to the death, having made a big enough name for himself that even Midnight claims to have heard of him. NOTE: This is as far as the villain got. His actual appearance and the fight was slated for the next issue, but another creator worked on the strip after this and the story was not continued.
Inker revision from Cole to DiPreta by Craig Delich 2013-6-16, per Jim Amash in Quality Companion. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Comic Story | The Prophecy (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wilhelm gets his fortune told, and doesn't like the results. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Madame Wipasky; Black Wilhelm; Vorka |
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| Comic Story | The Cornfield-McJug Feud (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Bozo the Robot; Hugh Hazzard; Lem Cornfield; Cy McJug |
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| Comic Story | The Kleptomaniac (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | McGinty can't capture the Kleptomaniac because the Commissioner's his uncle. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; detective Hustace McGinty; Terwilliger J. Thump |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tonga Bey; Von Pap; Black Ogre (villain) |
| Notes | Script credits suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | The Man of a Hundred Heads (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Happy Terrill's relationship with Sue Saunders changes dramatically when the two begin to date, and, as the Ray, he finds himself having to save her from the ax-weilding Headsman. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Sue Saunders; The Headsman (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Warehouser's Beat (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; The Warehousers; Warden Jones; Commissioner |
| Notes | Originally credited "Rudy Palais ?", but Palais has a very marked line from the eye down the cheek in sideview and also a peculiar blot as nostril not connected to the wing of the nose. Not him here.
The art is identical to William's other credited stories in this feature, #40 and #41, and his signed "Eagle Evans" story in Police Comics #1. Most faces in nearly frontview with only one ear showing, and very large rounded jaw and chin are special. |
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| Text Story | Christmas Mystery (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo |
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| Comic Story | Men Marked for Death! (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; War | Characters: Yankee Eagle [Larry Noble] (introduction) |
| Notes | Not the same character as in Military Comics (Quality, 1941 series) #1-8. |
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