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| Publication | May 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Joe Palooka; Little Tommy |
| Notes | strip reprints McNaught Syndicate |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints- Register and Tribune Syndicate |
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| Comic Story | The Tuvanian Munitions Plot (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tuvania tries to but an American arms manufacturer, planning to sabotage their own plant. Black X gets a job at the plant, but his identity is made and Pigiron tries to toss him into a vat of molten metal. |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Black X; Bronislaus (first appearance; villain); Karl Lescu (first appearance; villain); Pigiron (first appearance; villain; death) |
| Notes | Eisner/Iger shop material. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama |
| Notes | strip reprints Register and Tribune Syndicate. |
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| Comic Story | The East Wing (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Archie wants to investigate the east wing of the castle that is supposed to be haunted. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Toole; The ghosts of the East Wing (first appearance; villains); Max; Snowdrift |
| Notes | Eisner/Iger shop material |
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| Comic Story | A Helping Hand (2 pages) |
| Notes | strip reprints: McNaught Syndicate |
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| Comic Story | The Deserter (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sgt Reynolds tracks down Harry Wells an ex mountie who deserted rather than arrest his ne'er do well brother. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; Harry Wells (first appearance; villain); Jim Wells (first appearance; villain); Pierre (first appearance; villain); their gang (first appearance; villains) |
| Notes | Iger/Eisner shop material. |
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| Comic Story | Episode 20 (2 pages) |
| Notes | strip reprints: Frank J. Markey Syndicate |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | strip reprints:McNaught Syndicate |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints:McNaught Syndicate |
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| Cartoon | Yu the Great (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | panel reprints- Frank Jay Markey syndicate |
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| Comic Story | Robbery At the Acme Diamond Company (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Boss Marco gets the drop on the Clock, unmasking him, and threatening to reveal his identity to the public. Fortunately, as Marco and his gang leave the scene, their car exploded from a container of nitro glycerin. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Boss Marco (villain, introduction, death); Slick (villain, introduction, death); Soapy (villain, introduction, death); another crook (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Eisner/Iger shop material. From Wags (Editors Press Service, 1937 Series, UK) ? |
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| Cartoon | The Olympic Marathon of 1908 in London (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | strip reprints- Register and Tribune Syndicate |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints- Frank Jay Markey syndicate |
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| Comic Story | The Scarab Curse (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Captain Cook; The Briston Brothers (first appearance; villain); Earl of Gillingham (first appearance; death); Sydney Gillingham (first appearance; death); John Gillingham (first appearance) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints- Register and Tribune Syndicate |
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| Content | Genre: Drama |
| Notes | strip reprints: McNaught Syndicate |
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| Comic Story | Episode 20 (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bligh discovers Hammond is faking, so he starts marching him back to town to confess. |
| Content | Characters: Roger Bligh; Hartley Hammond; Mrs. Bott; Jusith Benton; Slim; Tubby; Bullets Benton |
| Notes | strip reprints: Register and Tribune Syndicate |
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| Text Story | The Mystery of Echo Island, Chapter 1: Man of Iron (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: John A. Thorne | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Battle At Sea (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Neville is rescued by Sir Raymond, returning from Cyprus. Then they are captured by Arab seamen, whose ship is then sunk, leaving Neville and Lady Alice marooned on an unknown beach. |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Sir Raymond (first appearance); Lady Alice (first appearance); Sir Neville |
| Notes | Eisner/Iger shop material. Reprinted from Wags? |
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| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | strip reprints- Register and Tribune Syndicate |
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| Synopsis | Goetz rents a creepy little house in the woods to get himself in the mood to write a mystery story, only to find bank robbers are using it as a hideout. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Richard Manners; Mr. Goetz (first appearance); Miro (first appearance; villain); Joe (first appearance; villain); Caesar (first appearance; villain) |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Cartoon | Mark of A Coward |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | panel reprints- Frank Jay Markey syndicate
Last appearance in Feature Funnies, and in a Quality publication. Strange as It Seems reprints appear next in a comic book in Tip Top Comics (United Feature, 1936 Series) #v4#6 (42) (October 1939). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints: McNaught Syndicate |
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| Advertisement | Dan and the Gang go to bat with Grips (1 page) |
| Featuring | Grips Athletic Club |
| Credits | Colors:? (red only) |
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