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| Publication | November 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD; 0.15 CAD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Featuring | The Music Master |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Music Master [John Wallace] |
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| Synopsis | Rainbow Boy joins a dazed Hydroman, after he had struggled with the now imprisoned Helium Gang, and informs him that he has received a strange wireless from the Rock Island Lighthouse. Hydroman investigates, making his way into the lighthouse and finding the keeper, who alerts Hydroman that a gang of smugglers are attempting to bring in diamonds from South America. While the keeper alerts the authorities, Hydroman rounds up the crooks and turns them over to the Coast Guard. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Rainbow Boy [Jack Watson]; lighthouse keeper; Coast Guard captain; diamond smugglers [Lefty; rest unnamed] (villains) |
| Notes | Script credit revised from Ben Thompson ? to Douglas ? by Craig Delich. The Who's Who indicates that Thompson drew the feature only and no extant evidence exists that Thompson also wrote this feature. The Who's Who does not indicate who wrote the Hydroman strip, but does indicate Douglas as the writer and creator of Rainbow Boy. |
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| Synopsis | After a mysterious ailment strikes several Sutton Hall football players during a game, Jack investigates and discovers that the team's drinking water had been drugged. When Whitey disappears, Jack, as Rainbow Boy, confronts racketeer Gilioni, who had bet a large sum of money against Sutton Hall. |
| Featuring | Rainbow Boy |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Rainbow Boy [Jack Watson]; Whitey Wynkoop; Mrs. Wynkoop (Whitey's mother); Joe (train engineer); Nick Gilioni (villain, racketeer); Gilioni's mob (villains) |
| Notes | See comments on previous story. According to Bails, Thompson did not write any of the features he worked on at Eastern. |
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| Comic Story | Dugan's Riding Akademy (1 page) |
| Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Jimmie Dugan; Pinhead Duffy |
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| Featuring | The Music Master |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Music Master [John Wallace] |
| Notes | Script credited suggested by the Who's Who. |
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| Comic Story | Introducing MM's Prodigy..."Downbeat" Penrod Hunter (6 pages) |
| Featuring | The Music Master |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Music Master [John Wallace]; Penrod "Downbeat" Hunter (introduction) |
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| Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Jimmie Dugan; Pinhead Duffy |
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| Comic Story | Daniel R. Edwards, U.S.A. (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Daredevils of Destiny |
| Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Military | Characters: Daniel R. Edwards |
| Notes | A single Sunday page is enlarged and reshaped and spread across two comic pages. |
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| Featuring | Man O' Metal |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Man O' Metal [Pat Dempsey]; Tom Wentworth |
| Notes | Credits from the reprint. There is no evidence that Peter ever wrote this strip.
Peter signs in the fourth panel of the final page. |
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| Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Jimmie Dugan; Pinhead Duffy |
| Notes | last appearance |
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| Text Story | Downhill Race (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Terry Cranford; Cliff Dekker |
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| Featuring | Flyin' Jenny |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; War | Characters: Flyin' Jenny Dare; Cyril Richmint; Rick; Basil; |
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