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| Good thing CAT-MAN updated his look before getting his sidekick KITTEN on the team and insisting on matching costumes--- YOW!! |
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| Publication | November 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; The Blue Streak [Don-Vin] (inset); Buck Burke (inset); Shangra (inset); Strongman [Percy van Norton] (inset); Secret Agent Z-2 (inset) |
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| Publisher advertisement | Read the 3 Outstanding Comic Magazines (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Promo for the three Temerson-related titles, although neither of the other two published any further issues with this cover date or later under Temerson's publisher. Speed Comics would be taken over by Leo Greenwald and then Harvey. |
| Featuring | Crash Comics; Speed Comics; Whirlwind Comics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Notably, the Worth Carnahan-published series (Champion Comics, Cyclone Comics and O.K. Comics) which some sources associate with Temerson, are not included in this promo.
Inside front cover. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Strongman |
| Notes | Final Golden Age appearance. Decades after the character entered the public domain, Marvel Comics created their own version of Strongman, introducing him in INVADERS (Marvel, 1993 series) #1-4. |
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| Notes | last appearance |
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| Synopsis | David convinces the Chief of the Secret Service to let him handle the recent influx of spys coming into the country on forged passports. To do so, the Cat-Man must successfully live through a series of traps that the spy's have used to kill other agents that have tried to penetrate the spy's stronghold. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Cat-Man [David Merrywether]; un-named Chief of the Secret Service; Herr Blonker [aka Hans the Tailor] (villain, foreign spy) |
| Notes | The Cat-Man loses his second of nine lives in the story. Catman next appears in Catman Comics #1. |
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| Comic Story | Alec & the Reign of Yang (2 pages) |
| Content | Characters: Alec |
| Notes | next appears in CATMAN COMICS #10 |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Buck Burke |
| Notes | last appearance |
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| Synopsis | The Streak heads to Antarctica in search of a noted explorer who has not been heard from in 48 hours, and who had hoped to stake a claim on behalf of the U.S. for iron gold and oil in the region. He discovers the Admiral under avalanch snows, rescues him, but then has to fight off the Admiral's assistants who turn out to be 5th Columnists! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Streak [Don-Vin]; Tago (Streak's servant); Admiral Swan (explorer); group of Fifth Columnists (villains, all die) |
| Notes | Blue Streak's last appearance.
For this story only, the Feature Logo is "The Blue Streak, the Defender of the People". |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jane Drake |
| Notes | This was the last appearance of the Jane Drake Detective feature.. |
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| Comic Story | Bob Preston (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Bob Preston |
| Content | Characters: Bob Preston (intro, only appearance) |
| Notes | Only appearance of the "Bob Preston" feature (if it is intended to be a feature. It may just be the title). |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Solar Legion |
| Notes | last appearance; Jack Kirby removed from pencils and inks fields (per Greg Theakston) |
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| Text Story | Waterfront Wildcat (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Secret Agent Z-2 |
| Notes | last appearance |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Shangra |
| Notes | last appearance |
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