Additional Information |
|
Publication | September 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
|
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Mickey Finn (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Samar (inset); Swing Sisson (inset) |
|
Comic Story | Enemy Subs Menace Coastal Areas (11 pages) |
Synopsis | Professor Roberts falls under the spell of a beautiful and ambitious woman who entices him to divulge his secrets. When Doll Man investigates her, his discovers her true name and that she is under the cruel spell of her hag-like sister. Once restored from her spell, she double-dates with Darrel and Martha. |
Credits | Script:? [as Wm. Erwin Maxwell] (credited) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Professor Roberts; Martha Roberts; Mademoiselle de Mortire [aka Yvette] (introduction); Yvette's un-named sister (villain, introduction); thje Nazis (villains) |
Notes | The strip always carried the by-line of William Erwin Maxwell and did not refer to Crandall. |
|
Content | Genre: Humor |
|
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero |
Notes | Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. |
|
Credits | Script: John Charles (credited) |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar; Johnny (a young boy) |
Notes | John Charles, as used at Quality Comics, was a house name used for multiple writers. It is not the UK writer John Charles who started his career in the 1990s. |
|
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Nippie -- He's Often Wrong is a top-piece to Mickey Finn Sunday-page reprints. |
|
Content | Genre: Humor |
|
Comic Story | This Is Suicide Shack (4 pages) |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner] |
|
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
|
Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson |
|
Content | Genre: Humor |
|
Comic Story | The Masked Hermit (5 pages) |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP |
|
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty; Moi Yutong] |
Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
|
Text Story | The World below The Pole (2 pages) |
Featuring | Perry Scott |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure |
|
Content | Genre: Humor |
|
Comic Story | Meet the Raven! (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Spider Widow answers an ad in the newspaper placed by Axis spies. But the ad is also answered by the mysterious Raven, who freed her and then, together with the Widow, delivered the spies into the hands of the U.S. Navy. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayson]; The Raven [Tony Grey] (introduction) |
Notes | Thanks to Darci for noting the Raven's first appearance via error report. |
|
Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw] |
|
The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |