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Publication | March 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hydroman [Bob Blake] |
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Notes | On the inside front cover.
Promotional house advertisement for Famous Funnies (Eastern Color, 1934 series) #79 (February 1941). |
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Synopsis | Bob receives a phone call from a supposed friend of his college roomate, Ronnie Keller, but he smells a rat. Arriving for his appointment with the caller, he discovers he has walked into a trap and is taken prisoner. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Harry Thurston; Joyce Church; Barbara Stearns (villain); Mr. Okoyo [aka Mr. Yen] (villain, death); Soo Lee (villain, death) |
Notes | The feature credit is 'Bob Blake Hydroman'. Continued next issue. |
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Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy |
Notes | Shares page with half-page ad for gas model plane. |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; War | Characters: Flyin' Jenny Dare; The Phantom Pilot (villain); Rick Davis; Bertram Rockbilt; Captain Wingwart (villain); Raghead |
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Featuring | Star Flashes |
Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Tyrone Power; Judy Canova; Tom Keene; Larry Crabbe |
Notes | The feature Screen Oddities had a name change, to Star Flashes, on 1938-03-22. |
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Featuring | The Purple Zombie |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Purple Zombie [Zoro]; Chico; Kimberly Hale |
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Featuring | Sergeant Stony Craig and His U.S. Marines |
Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Military | Characters: Sergeant Stony Craig; Captain Wilson; Captain Sorrow (villain); Miss Black (villain); Marine Jed Fink |
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Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Jimmie Dugan; Curley |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dinky Dinkerton; King Oscar |
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Featuring | Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Don Dixon; Princess Wanda; Dr. Lugoff; The Destroyer (villain) |
Notes | The topper to this Sunday page was Tad of the Tanbark. It ceased publication on 1941-03-06.
Panels are extensively reshaped and rearranged. |
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Text Article | Eddie Cantor (1 page) |
Featuring | Idioddities |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Eddie Cantor |
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Synopsis | Indira's Dacoits retrieve her, and steal Edyth's horses as well. |
Featuring | Mann of India |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chickering Mann; Indira, Cobra Queen of the Dacoits; Edyth Walton; Nandu; Commissioner Walton; Rahman |
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Featuring | Bill & Davey |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Bill; Davey |
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Featuring | Daredevils of Destiny |
Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: John Mackenzie |
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Featuring | Gordon Fife and the Boy King |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Gordon Fife; Baron Manheim; Mimi; Nicky, the Boy King; Aunt Carol |
Notes | Pfeufer drew the strip between December 1936 and its final appearance in January 1942. |
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Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy; Mrs. Duffy |
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Text Story | Death in a Box (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Steve has signed a contract to pilot a freight carrier from a jungle camp on the Tapajoz River to Muana, and makes that journey with Andrew Crowel. Suddenly, a native, who was hired to spy on Camp Melford's officials, takes them prisoner, believing them to be carrying a valuable company cargo. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Steve Kruger; Andrew Crowel (Camp Melford superintendent); Pedro (villain, death) |
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Featuring | Amaze a Minute |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Featuring | Tad of the Tanbark |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tad; Speed (Tad's father); Almira; Yellowhair |
Notes | This was the topper to the Don Dixon Sunday. It ceased publication on 1941-03-06. |
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Featuring | Kitty Moran & Her Hound |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Kitty Moran; Angus |
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Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy; Mrs. Duffy |
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Comic Story | John McCloy (1 page) |
Featuring | Daredevils of Destiny |
Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: John McCloy |
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Notes | Names of the winners of the contest in #2. On inside back cover. |
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Featuring | Daisy Red Ryder Rifle |
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