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I get the feeling there's a story behind this comic but I just don't know it. It reads like a collection of features intended for other books. Molly O'Day reminds me of the b&w
Sally the Sleuth strips in detective pulps. Who's doing the Lou Fine imitation in the Enchanted Dagger story? I swear it looks like George Tuska in places. The anonymous Romeo and Juliet two-pager is nice, too. |
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Virtually everything in this comic is reprints from earlier Harry "A" Chesler comics. A number of the features were also reprinted again in various Avon and I.W. comics in the 1950s and 1960s. |
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Molly O'Day is a pretty cool character. She knows her way around both a police case and a brawl. Pity that she doesn't seem to appear anywhere else. |
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Additional Information |
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Publication | February 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
Notes | The artist traced the female figure from the Peter Driben cover of the pulp magazine
Inside Detective Volume 10 #1 (Jan 1940). |
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Featuring | Molly O'Day |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
Notes | The artist traced the female figure from the Peter Driben cover of the pulp magazine
Inside Detective Volume 10 #1 (Jan 1940). |
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Featuring | Molly O'Day |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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Featuring | Joe Dokes |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Comic Story | Origin of the Enchanted Dagger (7 pages) |
Featuring | Enchanted Dagger |
Content | Genre: Superhero |
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Featuring | Tenderfoot Mary |
Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
Notes | This is probably a reprint from an earlier Chesler shop-supplied comic book. |
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Text Story | The Great Air Race (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Aviation |
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Featuring | Handy Andy |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Featuring | Sources of Famous Quotations |
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Featuring | Gopher Moore |
Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
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Featuring | Corporal Grant |
Content | Genre: War |
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Featuring | Bunk House |
Credits | Pencils: Jim Chambers (see notes) | Inks: Jim Chambers (see notes) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
Notes | Signature of J. G. C. was removed before printing of Star Ranger (Chesler / Dynamic, 1937 series) #4 (June 1937), but it appears in the reprint of this story in Strange Mysteries (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #10 (1963). |
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Text Story | Something For the Kids (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Featuring | Third Class Male |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Featuring | Capt'n Courage |
Content | Genre: Adventure |
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Featuring | Officer Skelly |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe Penner; Officer Skelly |
Notes | The first panel has been revised: a dialogue balloon reading "I'm a Penner fer keeps, now!" has been erased. Possibly Joe Penner's permission wasn't obtained for the reprint, or the editors thought people had forgotten who Joe Penner was by this time. The subsequent reprints are the revised version. |
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Featuring | Molly O'Day |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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