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Publication | October 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Rusty Ryan (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Lala Palooza (inset) |
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Comic Story | Crime Goes to College (13 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Prof. Whittlesey (first appearance, villain); Gats Grogan (first appearance, villain); Bruiser Bellows (first appearance, villain); unnamed crook (first appearance, villain) |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | strip reprints |
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Comic Story | A Week in the Life (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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Comic Story | The Headhunter (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Dianne's friends, Alice and Emory, are killed by headhunters in the jungles of South America. But the true villain nearly kills Dianne and then leaps out a window to his death. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayson]; Alice (introduction); Emory (villain, introduction, death) |
Notes | This is the only Spider Widow story not drawn by Borth. Drafted into the military service, this last story was assigned to Palais.
Last appearance. |
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Comic Story | The Mental Attitude (2 pages) |
Synopsis | The Inferior Man faces a sort of hypnotist who orders people to kill themselves right in front of Courtney (and who doesn't seem to have a problem with it). |
Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Inferior Man [Courtney Fudd]; The Mental Attitude (villain, introduction); The Mental Attitude's wife (villain?; introduction) |
Notes | Last appearance |
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Comic Story | The Invisibility Formula (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Swing has a difficult time dealing with the infamous Dr. McNulty, who has invented an invisibility serum. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Dr. J. P. McNulty; Terry (introduction); un-named Japanese spies (villains, introduction for all) |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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Comic Story | Letter to Stalin (5 pages) |
Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Maj. Maria Soblesky (introduction); the Japanese (villains) |
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Comic Story | The Hand of Rutatutakhmen (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Zero defeats the possessed mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh, Rutatutakhmen. |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Prof. Wilcox (introduction); Rutatutakhmen (villain, a mummy, introduction) |
Notes | Last appearance.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who |
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Text Story | You Win by Losing (2 pages) |
Featuring | Perry Scott |
Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt? | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Comic Story | Blimpy Goes to the Devil (Almost!) (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]; Blimpy's Devil (introduction); Blimpy's Angel (introduction); the Devil (villain, a facsimile thereof) |
Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
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Comic Story | Miss Siren (9 pages) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; Louola (introduction); Louola's father (introduction); Miss Siren (villain, introduction); Gorbo (villain, introduction) |
Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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