Additional Information |
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Publication | November 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly except June and September |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Red Rube; Steel Sterling |
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Comic Story | The Gruesome Twosome (11 pages) |
Synopsis | Steel buys two small jinxed goblin figurines that brings him trouble and bad luck. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Sergeant Clancy McGinty (Police); The Gruesome Twosome [Gruesome; Twosome] (introduction, villain); Rat Face and his gang (introduction) |
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Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
Content | Characters: Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Souphead |
Notes | Promo for the Archie radio show airing weekdays on the Blue Network. Souphead asks readers to send letters to Station WJZ in New York if they would like him to appear on the show. |
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Comic Story | The Zoot Suits (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Banana and Stencho have received reward money and spend it on clothes and women. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Senor Banana; Stencho Odora; Senorita Pepe La Tomahto |
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Comic Story | The Password (6 pages) |
Synopsis | A mix-up in Pappy's new password system to purchase his bootleg liquor leads a pack of bank robbers to fill their gas tank with alcohol and revenuers to accidentally drink gasoline. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Slappy Applejack; Happy Applejack; Pappy Applejack; Rusty Dan, the Postal Man (introduction); Revenue men (introduction) |
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Text Story | Honor among Thieves (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Two kidnappers double cross each other. |
Credits | Script:? [as George Wellington] (byline) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Mike; Jake |
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Featuring | Zipsy Doodles |
Content | Characters: Slappy Applejack; Ginger; Chimpy |
Notes | Includes maze to connect Slappy Applejack with his father's jug, drawing activity with Ginger, and Chimpy drawing to be cut out and mounted on cardboard for collection of MLJ characters. |
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Synopsis | Red Rube signs up for a boxing match against Gorilla Gus to earn 500 dollars to help a lady get her blind son an operation. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Red Rube [Rueben Rueben]; Gorilla Gus; two spies; Mr. Long; Tom; Tom's mother |
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Synopsis | Bigge Jinx has gotten an order from Pluto in Hades to deliver seven weeks of hard luck to Chimpy for breaking Pluto's crystal ball. |
Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Chimpy; Genie; A. Bigge Jinx |
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Content | Characters: The Hangman [Bob Dickering]; The Shield [Joe Higgins]; Archie Andrews |
Notes | Promo for Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 series) touting previous success with The Hangman, The New Shield, and Archie and introducing new features Marco Loco, Lil Chief Bugaboo, and Catfish Joe. |
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Synopsis | Piddle, Grump and the students are taking a day off in the country, without Ginger. |
Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Ginger Snapp; Dr. Piddle; Principal Grump; Aunt Matilda |
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Comic Story | Vines Camp (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Wilbur causes a headache for his boss while working as a boys' camp counselor. |
Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Wilbur Wilkin; Mr. Smudge (teacher) |
Notes | Contains nudity panels. |
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