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| Publication | April 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Samar (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); The Doll Man (inset); Zero (inset); Poison Ivy (inset); Reynolds of the Mounted (inset); Big Top (inset); Swing Sisson (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Fargo Kid (inset) |
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| Synopsis | Darrel and Martha are walking along the street when air raid sirens go off, and they take shelter in a subway tunnel. Two painters are also in there and Darrel notices something strange about them, so he turns into Doll Man and tracks them. Doll Man is puzzled that the Nazis are so accurate in their bomb runs until he sees the painters painting the tops of building (later bombed) with luminous paint. |
| Featuring | The Doll Man |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Dr. Roberts; two unnamed Nazi painters (villains); the Nazis (villains, some die); Japanese servant of Dr. Roberts (villain) |
| Notes | The name William Erwin Maxwell was found on most of the early Doll Man strips, but had no relation to artist Crandall. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Joe Devlin to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Devlin did not write this strip according to the Who's Who. Artist correction from Joe (who did not exist) to John Devlin also made by Craig Delich. |
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| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar |
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| Synopsis | Zero is asked search the remains of a wealthy farmer in order to obtain a locket that contains the location of the farmer's hidden fortune, but stepson John wants to beat Zero to the punch. John is killed and Zero discovers that Hiram's body is missing from the vault. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Dr. Winters; Hiram (farmer, death); Gloria (Hiram's daughter); John (villain, Hiram's stepson, death); Hiram's un-named housekeeper (villain) |
| Notes | Artist revision from Al Bryant to Williams per Craig Delich 2013-12-3.
Toni Blum is the only person identified by the Who's Who as the writer for this feature from 1940-43. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Content | Characters: The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner] |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent |
| Notes | Writer credit revised from Bernard Dibble to ? by Craig Delich 2013-4-6. Dibble did not write this strip according to the Who's Who. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty] |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Text Story | The Flying Sampan (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | It Happened on Rails (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Captain Bruce Blackburn; Sonya (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw] |
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