| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Bozo the Robot (inset); Wings Wendall (inset); The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Revenge of Bela Jat (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Ray faces Bela Jat, a Hindu mystic, who can transform himself at will into an "ecto-fluid". His murderous reign ends when Police catch him in solid form and put a knife in his back. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Shimego; Gar; Bela Jat (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | Mystery of the Empty Theatre (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill; Warren; Tiny Todd]; Old Willy (introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Hypnotic Fiend (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Toole; Sum Fun (intro) |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Mae "Scoop" Merrill (intro); Chic Carter |
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| Synopsis | Actor Barry Moore, after finishing the film "Oriental Horror," takes a job in his father's police department but finds that the commissioner is a soft headed liberal. So Barry devises a secret life in order to infiltrate the underworld disguised as a Chinese-American called the Scarlet Seal. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: The Scarlet Seal [Barry Moore] (actor, introduction, origin); Captain Pat Moore (Barry's father, introduction); Lt. Bemis; Spider (death); Bugs Marlone (villain) |
| Notes | This feature was created by Manning de Villeneuve Lee, an accomplished fine artist and book illustrator who specialized in historical subjects. His by-line only appears on this first story....after that, the strip was signed "Duane Byrd Monroe", a pen name for which no reference can be found. Jim Amash and Mike Kooiman, in the Quality Companion, state that the art is Lee's.
The name Barry Moore is a play on the famous screen actor family, the Barrymores.
Many stories display Moore jumping out of a cab and entering through the front door of his secret lab, which was disguised as a fake store front.
Moore's fortune financed his capers and procured props such as firecrackers and flash powder, and he was also adept in jujitsu. |
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| Synopsis | An ancient Egyptian artifact that gives those close to it the power to suspend gravity is stolen by a member of an archaeological dig.. The Hood pursues the thief who commits suicide and destroys the artifact. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston]; Professor James; Professor Hill; Dr. Robb (introduction, death) |
| Notes | The anti-gravity attribute in this story is very similar to Hawkman's Ninth Metal.
The story has a confusing beginning with the apparition of a giant mummy that is never again mentioned wrecking the city and destroying a train. |
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| Comic Story | Invasion of Mexico (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Espionage [Black X]; Rod Pasquale; Colonel Atwater |
| Notes | 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 as well. |
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| Comic Story | The Labor Racketeers (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Magno breaks up a fake union run by racketeers. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Magno [Tom Dalton]; Big Tim Fink (villain, introduction) |
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| Comic Story | The Arson Arrows (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Fire Commissioner Nosey (Intro) |
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| Comic Story | The Sheik's Power Play (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Abdul; Hassan; Sheik Karu-Bali (Intro, Dies) |
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| Comic Story | Vanishing Gold (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Fifth Column (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Wings Wendall; Puget (Intro, Dies) |
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| Comic Story | Turgin's Fifth Column (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Turgin (intro,dies) |
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