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| June 1937 (from GCD)
George Brenner's Bob Steele Raiders from Space shows a definite Alex Raymond Flash Gordon influence.
Paul Lauretta's Rocky Baird Gold of Destiny shows a definite Roy Crane Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy influence.
I like The Photographer's Delemma but the proportions aren't right for a full page - what was on the back of that page?
Also is the centerfold missing or what?
All in all I like the issue a lot. I always like having the opportunity of getting another scan of a 1930s Comics Magazine Company comic book!
Thanks to the scanner! |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1937 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | The cover uses the second panel of page five from the lead story, but in reverse. |
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| Featuring | Professor Joshwink |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Professor Joshwink |
| Notes | The cover uses the second panel of page five from the lead story, but in reverse. |
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| Comic Story | Quest For the Zozosaurus (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Joshwink sends his incompetant assistant Ichabod to Africa in order to capture the elusive zozosaurus. |
| Featuring | Professor Joshwink |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Professor Joshwink; Ichabod |
| Notes | The second panel of page five is used as the cover, but with image reversed.
Koscik signs on the final page. |
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| Comic Story | The Kid Comes Through (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pete punches a man who winks at Honey, and he turns out to be a fight manager who wants to sign Pete up. In hhis first few fights he goes down at the first punch, but in the next reverses the situation, because his pants were falling down! |
| Featuring | Pete "Kid" Calahan |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Sports | Characters: Pete "Kid" Calahan; Honey; Gabby J. Gooch |
| Notes | The story is in black and white |
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| Comic Story | Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Poison (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tom and two others sign on as seamen aboard the old "Southern Cross". They quickly realise that something is wrong upon discovering only a week's rations for a three month trip and a supposed load of coal even though she sits high on the water. |
| Featuring | Tom Dawson |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tom Dawson |
| Notes | The story is in black and white |
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| Comic Story | Raiders From Space (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | On a distant planet, Bob Steele is captured and accused of being an alien aggressor. When the ruler's daughter is captured by the winged Valkyrmen, he persuades her father that he can rescue her using a ship brought from Earth which is loaded with explosives. |
| Featuring | Bob Steele, M.D. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dr. Bob Steele; Arula; Princess Arata |
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| Illustration | The Photographer's Dilemma (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | A two-page spread. |
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| Comic Story | Gold of Destiny (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Brute Bransom offers to take Rocky Baird to an island where a pirate treasure is buried, and to split the loot with him. When they arrive, Bransom attacks Rocky and sends him hurtling into the sea under the castle. But he finds an undersea entrance to a cavern where the treasure is located, so under cover of darkness he loads it aboard his boat and sails away. |
| Featuring | Rocky Baird |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Rocky Baird; Brute Bransom |
| Notes | Lauretta signs on the final page. |
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| Comic Story | Terror of the Snows (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe, Maudie and Kang are in Mongolia, when her pet tiger Whiskers runs away. She and Joe follow but are attacked by a pack of wolves. Things look hopeless until Whiskers arrives and chases them off. |
| Featuring | Brailey of the Tropics |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Joe Brailey; Maudie; Kang |
| Notes | The story is in black and white. |
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| Text Story | Hillbilly (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Laconic hillbilly Lige Hallowell becomes Rockridge's entry in the annual canoe race. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Lige Hallowell; Jim Rigsby; Bransom; Master Dixon |
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| Comic Story | Concerning Neutrality (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lance Darrow is a U.S. agent in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He learns that a shipment of arms is on the way to the "Loyalists" and this would violate U.S. neutrality. Darrow impersonates a Spanish soldier, travels to a port in the north, destroys the shipment, and escapes. |
| Featuring | Lance Darrow |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy; War | Characters: Lance Darrow |
| Notes | The story is in black and white. The "Loyalists" are clearly the Spanish Republicans, and use the term "comrade" among themselves, a link to the supposed "communist" nature of those forces. |
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| Comic Story | Doomed Mine (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bob Colby is on the bum, and overhears a plan to blow up the car belonging to the manager of the local mine. He prevents the explosion and is offered a job. |
| Featuring | Bob Colby |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Bob Colby; Mr. Wells; Elsie |
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| Featuring | Taxicab Ted |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Taxicab Ted |
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