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Nice Raboy Lama story and a really fine Robinson (unfortunately missing the first two pages). |
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Publication | February 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly | Editing: Ken Crossen |
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Cover | Forward To Victory In 1945 |
Featuring | Green Lama |
Credits | Pencils: Mac Raboy | Inks: Mac Raboy | Letters: typeset |
Editing | Ken Crossen |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont] |
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Foreword/Afterword | Green Lama Contents (1 page) |
Synopsis | Contents page featuring illo of the Green Lama, features, story titles and brief synopses of each story. |
Featuring | Green Lama |
Credits | Pencils: Mac Raboy | Inks: Mac Raboy | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont] |
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Comic Story | Willie the Sleeper! (12 pages) |
Synopsis | Willie, the President of the Chamber of Criminal Commerce, offers a grand prize of $10,000 to anyone who sends them the best idea for a successful crime wave in the postwar underworld. |
Featuring | The Green Lama |
Credits | Script: Ken Crossen | Pencils: Mac Raboy | Inks: Mac Raboy | Letters: Rhoda Lewis (signed) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]; Tsarong; Lieutenant Caraway; Willie the Sleeper (villain, introduction) |
Notes | The last 1/3 of the last page of the story is an illustrated ad for the Green Lama Club. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5. |
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PSA | Smith? Kelly? Cohen? Svoboda? (1 page) |
Synopsis | Illustrated ad encouraging Americans to join the war effort and buy War Bonds. |
Featuring | War Bonds |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | A Genius in the Family! (8 pages) |
Synopsis | Tuffy writes what he thinks is a masterpiece and sees a man about publishing it, which he agrees to do. But Tuffy is not aware the man plans to use the publishing of the book as a cover for a crime! |
Featuring | The Boy Champions |
Credits | Script: Joseph Greene (signed) | Pencils: Al Bare (signed) | Inks: Al Bare (signed) | Letters: Rhoda Lewis (signed) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Boy Champions [Tuffy; Mickey; Wellington Smith]; Horace Higginbottom (villain); Higginbottom's gang (villains) |
Notes | Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5. |
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Text Story | Murder on Water (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Inspector McCabe asks Professor Hoyle help him solve the murder of James Sterling, a man strangled to death on a life raft in the water while half a dozen people watched. |
Credits | Script: Joseph Greene (signed) | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Inspector McGabe; Professor Sam Hoyle; Mrs. Sterling; John Gardner (villain) |
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Comic Story | Youth Is a Curse! (7 pages) |
Synopsis | While at a library, Mac Erc runs into a student of the dark arts who plans to release one Paracelsus from his imprisonment in a tree for the last few centuries. |
Featuring | Angus Mac Erc |
Credits | Script: Bruce Elliott (signed) | Pencils: Jerry Robinson [as Perry Williams] (signed) | Inks: Jerry Robinson [as Perry Williams] (signed) |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Angus Mac Erc [aka Mc Erc]; Time; Mr. Magdelene; Chumley Sister Maudlin; Paracelsus |
Notes | Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5.
Letterer credit revised from Rhoda Lewis to ? by Craig Delich. Lettering on this story totally different from Lewis' work on the other stories. |
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Synopsis | Mike gets nervous before his big fight, but his pop is equally scared of the fight he has waiting at home: with his wife! |
Featuring | Pop Flys |
Credits | Script: Al Liederman [as L] (signed) | Pencils: Al Liederman [as L] (signed) | Inks: Al Liederman [as L] (signed) | Letters: Al Liederman |
Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Mike McTigg; Pop; Joe Clutch (villain) |
Notes | Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5. |
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Comic Story | Censor Trouble (7 pages) |
Synopsis | When Rick Masters and his sidekick set up their commercial air operations, they thought it would be smooth sailing. And it would have been, except for a dictionary, a dying man, a stolen safe and the power of static electricity. |
Featuring | Rick Masters |
Credits | Script: Bruce Elliott [as Walter Gardner] (signed) | Pencils: Mort Lawrence (signed) | Inks: Mort Lawrence (signed) | Letters: Rhoda Lewis (signed) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Rick Masters; Twin Eagle; F. X. MacIntyre (death); Peeves (villain, death); Big Casino (villain, death); Little Casino (villain, death) |
Notes | Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5. |
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Comic Story | It Pays to Advertise (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Wilbur decides that the job of bookkeeper is beneath the dignity of a superhero, so he decides to use his super powers to cash in. |
Featuring | Lieutenant Hercules |
Credits | Script: Horace L. Gold [as H. L. Gold] (signed) | Pencils: Irving Tirman | Inks: Irving Tirman | Letters: Rhoda Lewis (signed) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Lieutenant Hercules [Wilbur Klutz]; Merlin; un-named gang members (villains) |
Notes | Credits added by Craig Delich 2008-10-5. Story title taken from the contents page. |
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