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Publication | June 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
Notes | The ears of the monkey and cleft in Midnight's chin are identical to Bryant's signed cover of #63. |
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Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey |
Notes | The ears of the monkey and cleft in Midnight's chin are identical to Bryant's signed cover of #63. |
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Comic Story | Cyanide Cindy (11 pages) |
Synopsis | Midnight is broadcasting a beauty contest at Center Park and must overcome Cyanide Cindy, a gun-toting beauty out for money the honest way. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Midnight [Dave Clark]; Gabby (a monkey); Doc Mortimer Wackey; Sniffer Snoop; Hot Dog; Cyanide Cindy (villain) |
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Synopsis | The people will get rid of the king. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Archie O'Toole (king) |
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Comic Story | The Etiquette Business (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Marge likes to be treated as a weak and defenseless girl. Spunky reads up on etiquette so as to make a good impression on her. But it backfires when he trespasses on farmer Smith's land to pick sunflowers for her. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Spunky; Curly; Marge; Pug; Si Smith |
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Synopsis | Rookie Rankin is assigned a beat in the worst neighborhood in the city. |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Rookie Rankin; Mrs. Van Garb; police chief; police commissioner |
Notes | Similar art to the Riss-credited pencil work on Manhunter stories in Police Comics (Quality, 1941 series) #37-#59.
Bob Hughes agrees on Riss pencils. |
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Comic Story | The Kidnapped Babies (4 pages) |
Synopsis | Lady Luck must track down six babies that have been kidnapped from the Metropolitan Hospital. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Chunky; Doc (villain, gang boss) |
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Synopsis | Miss Connitt gets anonymous notes and a bomb, seemingly from her fiancee. |
Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Black X; Batu; Glory Connatt; Ken Riston |
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Text Story | A Head for Murder (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Standish is killed by his partner when they discover a gold cave, and later his head is cut off and shrunk by tribesmen when they find his body. |
Featuring | Jimmy Christian |
Credits | Letters: Typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jimmy Christian (reporter); Professor Hugo Krantz; Bert Standish |
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Synopsis | Wun Cloo lock hijackers in a box car. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Wun Cloo (detective) |
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Synopsis | The Rajah of Termidore wants to make Daffy his favorite wife. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Daffy; Deke Parsons; Rajah of Termidore |
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Synopsis | Chuck Lane is assigned as Police escort for a musician with a priceless Stradivarius violin. However, when he mistakenly escorts the wrong violinist, he allows a thief to make off with a Stradivarius.....which promptly gets him assigned to school traffic cop duty.....that is, until he recovers the rare violin. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Police Chief Hustace McGinty; Quinopolis; Jascha Diesler (musician); Heinie Appleface (villain) |
Notes | This is similar art to the many Manhunter stories in Police Comics credited to Peter Riss on pencils. Notice the flying man getting a punch on the jaw, which can also be found in at least 12 Manhunter stories. |
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