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| Good comic, nice stories with dated art. Pity this edition hadn't been properly cared for; there's some damage at the top of the pages. |
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| Publication | April 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | World's Biggest Comics Book |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Master Man; White Rajah (vignette); Devil's Dagger (vignette); Frontier Marshall [Bill Crane] (vignette); El Carim (vignette) |
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| Publisher advertisement | Hey, Pals! (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Pencils: C. C. Beck | Inks: C. C. Beck | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Indicia at the bottom of the page.
Promotional advertisement for the Captain Marvel Power Siren. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Master Man; King Adolfuss; General Himmler; unnamed Adolfusstan pilot; unnamed Adolfusstan soldiers; unnamed peasant |
| Notes | Last panel on last page is a small promo for Slam-Bang Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series). |
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| Comic Story | White Rajah and the Lost Mummy (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle | Characters: White Rajah [David Scott]; Sin-Gee; Kelsey; Schwartz; unnamed Wulu natives; Wulu chief; Veego Chief |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Devil's Dagger [Ken Wyman]; Burton; Bonanza Bill; Morton Wyman (Ken's father); Sandra Cole; Pat Gleason; Jeff Marlowe (villain); Marlowe's gang |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Morton Murch; Queen Silva; Malabad pilots |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Shipwreck Roberts; Chief; Deep Sea Doodle; unnamed ship's captain; Doctor Drown (villain); Romez; unnamed foreign spies |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Frontier Marshall [Bill Crane]; Helen Wright; Mac; Mesquite Mike; two cattlemen [Hank (named)]; Jim Trask; Whipple |
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| Text Story | Lost But Found (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Featuring | Master Puzzlers |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) |
| Notes | Answers found on page 48. |
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| Synopsis | Several trivia vignette cartoons. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: Eli Samuel Parker |
| Notes | Similar to Ripley's Believe It or Not! |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Mr. Clue; J. Gould Parkhurst; Alaric (chauffeur); Abu (butler) |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Streak Sloan; Jerry Brant; unnamed train engineer; Ned Jackson |
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| Comic Story | Master of Magic and the Jewel Thieves (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense; Superhero | Characters: El Carim; J. Grigcby Duncan; Count Solferino; Solferino's gang; unnamed police officer; unnamed judge |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Rick O'Shay; Mekki; Major Cambon; Matt Morgan; Morgan's henchmen; Rick's soldiers |
| Notes | Art identification by Heritage Auctions in 2018. |
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| Text Article | Captain Marvel Power Siren Certificate No. 1 |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | At the bottom of the last page of the Rick O'Shay story.
Redeemable coupon used to help obtain the Captain Marvel Power Siren. |
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| Text Article | Answers to Master Puzzlers on Page 29 |
| Credits | Pencils:? (puzzles) | Inks:? (puzzles) |
| Notes | At the bottom of the last page of the Rick O'Shay story.
Answers to Master Puzzlers on page 29. |
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| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Gene Autry (photograph); Jane Withers (photograph) |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Promotional advertisement for Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series). The promotion was a photograph of Gene Autry with his guitar and Jane Withers reading a copy of Whiz Comics #3 (March 1940) while on the set of the Twentieth Century-Fox's movie, Shooting High. |
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| Advertisement | Boys! Boys! Boys! (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement for Mechanix Illustrated magazine. |
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