Additional Information |
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Publication | November 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling; Web; Black Jack |
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Comic Story | The Merchant of Hate (13 pages) |
Synopsis | This is the tale of a town somewhere in Europe, Lidice, and its destruction by the Nazis. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Web [John Raymond]; Adolf Hitler (Villain); Heydrich (Villain; Intro; Death); Nazis (Villain); Mr. and Mrs. Pieter Franck and their baby (Intro; Death); Jimmy Denning (Intro) |
Notes | Title from inside front cover.
Originally credited "Irv Novick?", not him, but has more in common with Burlockoff's signed story in #33, such as noses and scowling mouth. Uncertain. |
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Comic Story | The Creeper (12 pages) |
Synopsis | Steel in his struggle against the arch saboteur, the Creeper, who starts as a green costumed attraction at the circus. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Looney; The Creeper (Villain; Intro) |
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Comic Story | The Clubfoot (11 pages) |
Synopsis | The Clubfoot has come to America to kidnap the exciled King of Ptomania and take him to Germany, but Black Jack gets in his way. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Clubfoot (Intro; Villain; implied he is really Josef Goebbels); Schultz (Villain; Intro); Hauser (Villain; Intro); Jan Morski (Intro; Death); King of Ptomania (Intro) |
Notes | Title from inside front cover |
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Comic Story | The Football Season (6 pages) |
Synopsis | The football season and all the students are out for the team with that good old Westfield spirit. |
Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Wilbur Wilkin; Principal Tootlefruit |
Notes | Joe Kubert mentioned on pg. 1 as a "student". |
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Text Story | Some Killers Work Slowly (2 pages) |
Featuring | A Web Story |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Web [John Raymond]; Steve Lescott; Martha Shannon |
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Synopsis | Zoom and Liverlips are on a strafing mission on the Euphrates River and are shot down, but escape and blow up a river dam. |
Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Zoom O'Day; Liverlips; General Mueller (villain; introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); Nazis (villains) |
Notes | Compare the artwork with Kubert's signed Spark Stevens story in Blue Beetle (Holyoke, 1942 series) #13. Early work. |
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Comic Story | Major Devereux, Warrior of Wake Island (6 pages) |
Synopsis | The battle of Wake Island in the Pacific, December 1941. |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; War | Characters: Major Devereux |
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Comic Story | Case No. 2 of People America Can Do Without (6 pages) |
Synopsis | On needlessly use of cars when sailors die to bring gasoline. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Zambini (magician); Mayor Drake and his girlfriend (Intro) |
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