Additional Information |
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Publication | July 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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Content | Genre: Superhero |
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Publisher advertisement | Bulletin No. 19 (1 page) |
Featuring | Shield G-Man Club |
Credits | Script:? [as Joe Higgins (The Shield)] | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | Introducing Monstro the Monster From Mars (11 pages) |
Synopsis | A man from Mars comes to Earth, but folks think it's another Orson Wells gag. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Monstro (introduction, a Martian) |
Notes | Story set in the town of Brookhattan. |
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Comic Story | The Case of the Singing Corpse (10 pages) |
Synopsis | A radio announcer and control man are murdered, while they are on the air. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phillips (villain, introduction); Herb Cook (introduction, death in flashback); Rosalind Cook (introduction, death) |
Notes | Note on splash page signed by Harry Shorten, editor. Story signed "By Bob Fuje". |
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Text Story | Blackmail (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Roger Callway; Donald Callway; Bill Cramer |
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Comic Story | The Conga Goes To War (9 pages) |
Synopsis | Captain Commando and the Boy Soldiers' transport ship has sunk off the Solomon Islands. |
Content | Genre: Military; Superhero | Characters: a Japanese Captain (villain, introduction, death); a tribe of South Sea Islanders (introductions, some deaths) |
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Publisher advertisement | Archie Comics (1 page) |
Synopsis | Archie Comics promotional advertisement.
"A Smashing Success! The New Archie Comics..."
Features circle spot illustrations of Archie, Jughead and Veronica. |
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Comic Story | The Peerless Pitcher of Mudcat (6 pages) |
Content | Characters: Catfish Joe (introduction); his mother (introduction); Alex (introduction); Prof. Otto K. Balderdash (introduction); A prison warden (villain, introduction); the sheriff of Mudcat (villain, introduction) |
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Comic Story | The Mountain Lion (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Bugaboo meets a mountain lion. |
Credits | Pencils: Higgins | Inks: Higgins |
Content | Characters: Li'l Chief Bugaboo (introduction); Fido (introduction); Bugaboo's mother; Bugaboo's brother |
Notes | Previous indexer thought Theresa Woik [Szenics] wrote this series, even though she is not known to have written any comics, and Dave Higgins is known to have written comics. |
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Comic Story | Batching It (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Archie and Mr. Andrews run the house while Mrs. Andrews is on vacation. Unfortunately, the guys are not the best housekeepers. |
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Comic Story | Adventure of the Inner Temple (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Bentley tells a story of what happened while he was in Egypt a few years earlier. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Detective-mystery | Characters: Ridgely (villain, introduction, death); the "Sphinx Men" (villains, introductions); Edwin Meecham (introduction, death); Haskins (introduction, death); Lewis (introduction) |
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