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Could it be? More Munson Paddock, on the Casey Jones strip1 |
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Page 63: dark, evil smelling cells...? What exactly does evil smell like? Money? LOL! Page 65: Dictator is named Radolf.... Hmmmmm, that's a rather thin attempt at a name change by Quality Comics don't you think? |
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gotta agree with you on radolf it strikes me that not a lot of comic companies wanted to directly attack adolf because in august 1940 there was a huge anti getting america involved in the eoropean war sentiment so i think quality comics was pushing it as far as they dared |
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Additional Information |
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Publication | August 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Neon the Unknown [Tom Corbet]; the Nazis |
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Comic Story | A Town's Ransom (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Hercules battles saboteurs who blow up a school and a dam. |
Credits | Script:? (signed as Gregg Powers) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hercules [Joe Hercules]; Mr. Portle (introduction, science teacher); un-named town Mayor; Crinch (villain, introduction, town Board member) |
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Comic Story | Assignment: Ruina (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: X-5; The Black Guards (Intro, villains) |
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Comic Story | The Baby on the Doorstep (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Someone leaves a baby on the Doe's doorstep. Hijinks, including gunplay, ensue. |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Jack Doe; Jill Doe; Rocky Ford (villain, intro); Slobber Mike (villain, intro); Stella Ford (intro); Butch Ford (intro) |
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Comic Story | The Phantom Scaffold (7 pages) |
Credits | Script:? (credited as Pierre Winter) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: The Witch |
Notes | formerly Weird Tales |
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Comic Story | The Escape of Roderick Strange (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Rod captures Doug and takes his place. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Doug Strange; Rod Strange (villain); Wing Low (villain); Wendy Hale |
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Text Story | Tyrant's Death (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: Toni Blum | Letters: Typeset |
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Comic Story | The Hospital Grafters (6 pages) |
Synopsis | The Red Bee must combat an influenza plague that infects the city since the hospitals can't afford to give treatment because city coffers have been bled dry by grafting politicians led by Al Snead. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Tom Darrow (District Attorney); Captain Dooley; Michael (the Red Bee's bee); Al Snead (villain, introduction) |
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Comic Story | Costa Rica Shore Leave (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Bob Masters; Swab Decker; Nina Costa (intro) |
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Comic Story | The Railroad Saboteurs (5 pages) |
Credits | Script:? (signed as Pad Docke) |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Casey Jones |
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Comic Story | The Venusian Expedition (5 pages) |
Synopsis | After the Earth has been burned to a cinder, from passing too close to the Subn, Blaze has to face a group of monsters emerging from Earth's core. |
Credits | Script:? (signed as Roy Talon) |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Blaze Barton (assistant of Professor Solis); Professor Solis; Betty Solis; Venusians (introduction); The Bat Men; King of the Core-Men (villain); Core-men (villains) |
Notes | Oddity: Blaze was a Flash Gordon type hero who lived in a time after the year 5029 when the Earth's orbit was nearer to the Sun. However, in this one story, the year is 3000.
Roy Talon is a company by-line for the strip and not the name of a real personage. |
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Comic Story | Max the Toy Lion (2 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Tommy Tinkle; Mary Lou; The Professor; Max (a toy lion, intro); King Neptune; Snipp (intro, villain) and Snapp (intro, villain) |
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Comic Story | The Defeat of Radolf (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Neon heads for Dunland to free the inhabitants of a concentration camp in Dunland from the evil and tyranical rule of a dictator. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Radolf (villain, introduction) |
Notes | It is easy to see from all the elements contained in this story that Radolf is actually Hitler in another personage. |
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