| Additional Information |
| |
| Publication | Fall 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
| |
| Featuring | Green Mask |
| Credits | Pencils: E. C. Stoner? | Inks: E. C. Stoner? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Green Mask |
| |
| Comic Story | Wandering Gold Brick (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Teary and his gang substitute a painted and re-shaped gold brick for the iron head of lumberjack Pierre's axe, planning to recover it after he returns to Canada. Johnny turns into the Green Mask when the crooks attack, but doesn't notice the substitution. Pierre is lured back home by a fake telegram from his girlfriend Marie. However, the Green Mask goes to Canada, saves Pierre, and returns Teary and his mob (and the gold) to the USA. |
| Featuring | Green Mask |
| Credits | Script:? [as Jack Fiske] |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Superhero | Characters: Green Mask; Teary; Jowls; Pierre; Johnny Green; Marbles; Sheila; Marie |
| Notes | Title from cover. |
| |
| Comic Story | The Real Dream Adventure (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Johnny tries to emulate the Green Mask but his attempts at heroism fail. Meanwhile, his friends Suzie and Skinny are riding in an armoured car carrying charity donations. The vehicle plunges into a river and Johnny turns into the Green Mask to save them. However, he is also captured by the crooks in a submarine and taken to a hidden base with the two teens. The Green Mask saves Suzie and Skinny and captures the criminals. |
| Featuring | Green Mask |
| Credits | Script:? [as Jack Fiske] |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Green Mask;Johnny Green; Skinny; Suzie; |
| |
| Synopsis | Failing private eye Dick's wife orders him to get back his old job with the police force. Dick is assigned to the "graveyard shift." He visits the city graveyard and the gravedigger gives him a "fake" diamond he purchased the day before. Dick discovers the gem is real, but when he goes back to see the gravedigger, the real crook Sparrow is there looking for the "Pope" diamond. Dick and the police arrest the crook and Dick gets a reward, so he doesn't have to resume his police job. |
| Featuring | Dick Transom |
| Credits | Script:? [as Hap Harris] | Pencils: Al Zere | Inks: Al Zere |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dick Transom; Mrs. Transom; Commissioner Mulcahey; Pop; Mack; Casey; Sparrow |
| Notes | Sparrow has a moustache on page 5 but none on page 6.
The Pope Diamond is an allusion to the famous Hope Diamond. |
| |
| Text Story | Code of the North (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Glen Cary | Letters: typeset |
| |
| Synopsis | Judy Joy is bored so she invites the Blakes over to play bridge. Her husband Cuthbert agrees to let his friends play poker in the attic and he and Mr. Blake join the game. Cuthbert loses and the game is raided by the police. Cuthbert and Judy go to bed but Mr. Blake--who was the big winner in the poker game--invites them to go nightclubbing and Judy makes her husband accompany her. |
| Featuring | Joy Family |
| Credits | Script:? [as Hal George] | Pencils: Al Zere | Inks: Al Zere |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Cuthbert Joy; Judy Joy; Mr. Blake; Mrs. Blake; Pinky Joy; Mrs. Glibb |
| |
| Comic Story | Treasure On the Doorstep (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rick's sidekick Stringbean wants to win $50,000 for the best scientific discovery but repeatedly fails. Rick, Stringbean and Astra's spaceship is caught in a tornado and they wind up in a prehistoric land. The cave people try to sacrifice the intruders to a dinosaur, but Stringbean tames the monster with peanuts. They try to take the dinosaur home to win the prize but it falls off the ship during flight. One of Stringbean's earlier experiments would have paid off handsomely, except he can't remember the formula he used. |
| Featuring | Rick Evans |
| Credits | Script:? [as Stan Ford] | Pencils: Lou Ferstadt [as F] (signed) | Inks: Lou Ferstadt [as F] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rick Evans; Stringbean; Astra; |
| Notes | Signed on the $50,000 Prizes cloud on the splash page. |
| |
| Synopsis | Hogan is arrested when his defeated opponent, the Missouri Mauler, is hospitalised with mysterious injuries after their bout. Hogan's manager Spigot thinks the Mauler's manager Bags is having his man fake his injuries so Hogan can't train for his next fight. Newspaper reporter Savery tells Spigot where to find the Mauler's mother. She is summoned to the hospital and brings a basket of her son's favourite food: he "recovers" and Hogan is released from jail and defeats Biff Ralston to retain his title. |
| Featuring | One Round Hogan |
| Credits | Script:? [as Jo Logan] | Pencils: Al Zere | Inks: Al Zere |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: One Round Hogan; Blimp; Missouri Mauler [Tom Armstrong]; Spigot Barnett; Bags Bolger; Savery; Pat; Biff Ralston |
| |
| Synopsis | Hacksaw adds up the clues and vows to capture the culprit: a mouse in his home. |
| Featuring | Hacksaw the Great Detective |
| Credits | Script:? [as Chris Flag] |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Hacksaw; Pottson |
| |
| Synopsis | Advertisement for Mechanix Illustrated magazine. |
| Content | Characters: Captain Marvel; Marvel Bunny; Captain Marvel Jr. |
| Notes | Back cover. |
| |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
