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Publication | July 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
Notes | A previously indexer credited Bill Everett, but my feeling (looking at the inks of the man in the canoe, in particular) is that editor Stephen Douglas is doing his masterful imitation of Everett's style, as he did on some subsequent, signed, covers. |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hydroman [Bob Blake] |
Notes | A previously indexer credited Bill Everett, but my feeling (looking at the inks of the man in the canoe, in particular) is that editor Stephen Douglas is doing his masterful imitation of Everett's style, as he did on some subsequent, signed, covers. |
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Publisher advertisement | It Keeps Rollin' Along (1 page) |
Featuring | Famous Funnies |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Inside front cover.
A promotional house advertisement for Famous Funnies (Eastern Color, 1934 series) #83 (June 1941). |
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Synopsis | Having escaped from a glass cage in a foreign freighter's stateroom, Hydroman overpowers one of the guards, contains two others, and forcibly takes Margery from the ship. Arriving on land, Hydroman orders a taxi driver to take them to Bob Blake's apartment, but the cabbie smells a rat and dumps them out at the local Police Precinct. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Mr. Anders; Hans (villain); Margery Noel (villain) |
Notes | Continued next issue.
Everett signs in the penultimate panel. |
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Featuring | Star Flashes |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: George Raft; Wallace Beery; W. C. Fields; Anna May Wong; Ginger Rogers; Robert Montgomery |
Notes | Screen Oddities was renamed Star Flashes on 1938-03-22. |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; War | Characters: Flyin' Jenny Dare; J. Oscar Blimp (villain); Lipstone; Buta; Rick; Starr |
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Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy; Jimmie Dugan |
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Featuring | Man O'Metal |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Man O' Metal [Pat Dempsey] (intro; origin); Marie Latista; General Cabello |
Notes | origin story
A previous indexer credited Peter with inks, but another hand is evident, though inidentified. |
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Featuring | Tad of the Tanbark |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: Tad; Speed (Tad's father); Almira |
Notes | This was the topper to the Don Dixon Sunday. It ceased publication on 1941-03-06.
Pfeufer's signature is mostly obliterated in the fianl panel, but a sliver along the top remains for confirmation. |
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Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy; Jimmie Dugan; Mrs. Duffy; Mr. Duffy |
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Synopsis | Zoro and Hale's airplane is forced down by Professor Elton, who wants to show them his machine which will allow time travel. The two have a look inside the chamber and when Chico accidentally hits a lever, they disappear. |
Featuring | The Purple Zombie |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: The Purple Zombie [Zoro]; Kim Hale; Otto von Suda (villain); Chico; Professor Roy Elton |
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Featuring | Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Don Dixon; Princess Wanda; Dr. Lugoff; Old Dixon (Don's father); 'The Destroyer' |
Notes | The topper to this Sunday page was Tad of the Tanbark.
Panels are extensively reshaped and rearranged. |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Contests 31, 39, 33, 29, and 30. |
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Synopsis | In the deep winter of 1917, Fred Hartman enters the contest to travel 500 miles from Winnipeg to Minneapolis by dog sled. He faces many perils and hardships along the way, but finally arrives (in final place) at the destination. |
Featuring | Daredevils of Destiny |
Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Biography | Characters: Fred Hartman |
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Synopsis | Dr. Villon abducts Edyth and Chick follows, falling into a tiger pit. Kalla Khan arrives with a new slave to sell, Indira. |
Featuring | Mann of India |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Edyth Walton; Chickering Mann; Dr. Rene Villon (villain); Caliban (villain); Kalla Khan (villain); Indira, Cobra Queen of the Dacoits |
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Featuring | Bill and Davey |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Bill; Davey; Margie; Bulldozo (villain) |
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Synopsis | Commander Edwards of the U. S. S. Bainbridge rescues 482 souls from a blazing French liner, and receives the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
Featuring | Daredevils of Destiny |
Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Biography | Characters: Commander Edwards; Mdame Grand-Clement; President Calvin Coolidge |
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Featuring | Gordon Fife and the Boy King |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Gordon Fife; Baron Mannheim; Colonel Daven; Lorenz |
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Publisher advertisement | Contests Prize Winners (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Contest winners from issue #4. |
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Text Story | Depending on Chance (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Marv Hazard; Robert Stanton |
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Featuring | Amaze? A Minute |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Featuring | Sgt. Stony Craig and His U. S. Marines |
Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Military | Characters: Sgt. Stony Craig; Captain Sorrow; Slugger; Margot Black; Yvonne de Spear |
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Featuring | Reg'Lar Fellers |
Notes | A full-page promotion on the inside back cover for the Reg'lar Fellers movie. |
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Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
Notes | On the back cover.
A full-page promotional house advertisement for Buck Rogers (Eastern Color, 1940 series) #2. |
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