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Publication | December 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
Notes | The eyebrows and lower lips are so similar to the cover of #9, and to a signed Johnny Canuck story in the Canadian "Dime Comics" that this could be the same artist. |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Theresa (inset) |
Notes | The eyebrows and lower lips are so similar to the cover of #9, and to a signed Johnny Canuck story in the Canadian "Dime Comics" that this could be the same artist. |
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Comic Story | The Steel Coffin Case (9 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Yellowjacket [Vince Harley] |
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Synopsis | Just released from prison, Topaz starts a school and turns teacher to pass along his evil learnings to his more illiterate colleagues, expecting his students to reward him with the fruits of their felonious crimes. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Topaz (villain); Bugs Dugan (villain); Fingers Fips (villain) |
Notes | Title taken from the cover.
This is the only story that has some of Gattuso's gaping faces, and many faces also look like Battefield's work. |
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Text Story | Out of Commission (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: War |
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Featuring | Debunker |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Synopsis | American trucks with food shipments to Greece are attacked by Kashgar and his bandits. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Diana the Huntress; Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia; Tony Palma |
Notes | Figures and female faces match his later signed story in Adventures into the Unknown (American Comic Group, 1948 series) #104. |
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Comic Story | The Fall of the House of Usher (7 pages) |
Synopsis | Poe visits the gloomy house of Usher and wonders what has come over his old friend, who roams the house like a madman. |
Credits | Script:? (adaptation) |
Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Edgar Allan Poe; Roderick Usher; Madelaine Usher |
Notes | Adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe story
The art here is similar to Schrotter's Diana the Huntress stories. |
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Synopsis | 8 gag panels |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Comic Story | Circus Saboteur (6 pages) |
Synopsis | A sudden outburst of mysterious tragedies occur, as if someone is trying to ruin the circus. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Danny King; Russo; Crane [Cross] (villain); Dubble |
Notes | This is by DeLay, who can be recognized by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations. Originally credited to William M. Allison. Allison has more wide open eyes, like in his Poe story in #1. |
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Synopsis | Theresa overhears her brother and other smugglers planning their move to grab cocaine from a smuggler ship moored in the harbor, and she informs Steve of the harbor police. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Steve Hardesty; Jake Burns; Theresa Burns |
Notes | The pouchy eyes, often out of focus with a marked line down the cheek in sideview are certain signs of Palais. Also the movement of hands. |
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