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Publication | June 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every month |
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Cover | The Devil of the Congo |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Sheena |
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Comic Story | The Devil of the Congo (12 pages) |
Credits | Script:? [as W. Morgan Thomas] (credited) |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Sheena; Bob Reynolds; Chim; Commissioner Fletcher; Mrs. Fletcher; Great Black Father |
Notes | Story title is taken from the cover. Is Bob Powell still doing the Sheena figures? Keith Chandler agrees with this suggestion - the inking, at least. |
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Featuring | Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural |
Credits | Script:? [as Curt Davis] (credited) |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Stuart Taylor; Dr. Hayward; Laura Hayward |
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Featuring | Bobby |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Bobby; Stub |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Midnight (a black stallion); Red Beard; Cisco Kid [Rick in disguise] |
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Credits | Script:? [as Teller Tayles] (credited) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lightning [Fred Larkin]; General Larkin |
Notes | Same artist as last issue. Slight indications of Elkan here, but this artist is more sophisticated than LATER signed Elkan at Quality (Samar) and there's a humorous aspect to this that is not present in known early Elkan. |
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Text Story | Vulture Bait (2 pages) |
Credits | Script:? [as Frank Marshall] (credited) | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Rex Griffin; Tommy |
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Featuring | Inspector Dayton |
Credits | Script:? [as Geo. Thatcher] (credited) |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Inspector Dayton; Dr. Sung; Squealer; Red Bruser |
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Featuring | ZX-5 Spies In Action |
Credits | Script:? [as Major Thorpe] (credited) |
Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: ZX-5; Herr Brecker; Gretchen Brecker; Captain Bung |
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Comic Story | Sale $4.50 |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Uncle Otto |
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Featuring | Pee Wee |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pee Wee Myers; Frankie |
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Featuring | Tom, Dick, and Harry |
Credits | Script:? [as Charles Tansul] (credited) |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Tom Devlin; Dick Swenson; Harry Carson |
Notes | Same artist as previously seen on Lightning, perhaps with help from Rudy Palais on last page. Hames sees Maxwell Elkan here, but likely to be only on inks.
Note that "Tansul" is an anagram of "Sultan". |
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Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: The Hawk; Caleb; Fluth; Duke Don Rafiello Castagna (villain); Fat Tom (introduction); Corgo (introduction); Marguerite Cortes (introduction) |
Notes | Per Mort Leav, Art Saaf was given old Eisner material and assigned to re-write, re-compose, and fill in the gaps to create "new" Eisner Hawk stories (Robin Snyder's The Comics). |
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