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Publication | October 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Spy |
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Comic Story | The Case of the Phantom Fisherman and the Contrary Weathervane (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Super Spy 5Y-8R (Intro) |
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Comic Story | Mystery of the Missing Mummy (7 pages) |
Featuring | Operator #38 Chic Farrell |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Prof. Stone; his neice; Geprge Graves |
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Synopsis | Joan asks Scotty to fly her and her brother, Peter, to their father's gold mine in lower Burma. Although they crash their plane, they manage to reach the mine and thwart the villain who has jumped their claim. |
Featuring | Scotty of the Skyways |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Scotty; Joan Marshal; Bernie; Peter Marshal |
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Comic Story | The Twin Terror Case (7 pages) |
Featuring | Gary Ross |
Content | Genre: Crime |
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Text Story | Flight Three (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: Max Dodge | Pencils: Max Neill (signed) (illustration) | Inks: Max Neill (signed) (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation |
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Comic Story | Part II - Conclusion (13 pages) |
Synopsis | Setting out from Zango, Dr. Nelson, his son, and his son's fiancée travel to a lost city. When no word is heard from them, the police ask Lucifer to find them. He rescues them from natives and takes them to the city, where they find the treasure they sought. |
Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Dr. Nelson; Ted Nelson; Pat; Lucifer; Lahu; Sergeant Heath |
Notes | Lahu was named Lah in previous stories. |
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Comic Story | He Saves the Panama Canal (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Military |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Sparkler [Red Morgan] (introduction, origin) |
Notes | Next appearance in Wham Comics (Centaur, 1940 series) #1 (November 1940). |
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Comic Story | Vanishing Men (7 pages) |
Synopsis | The Sheriff and his posse chase a group of bank robbers into the hills, where they disappear, which they seem to do every time they commit a crime! When the posse decides to pitch camp and await the outlaws to show themselves, the Sheriff decides to look around, and is spotted by the Phantom making his way to the lair of the bandits! |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Western-frontier | Characters: Phantom of the Hills; Thunder (Phantom's horse); Pete (posse member); Lem (posse member); bank robbers [Joe; rest un-named] (villains, some die); un-named Sheriff (villain, bank robber's boss) |
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Comic Story | Edward Oscar Heinrich (1 page) |
Synopsis | A brief biography of University of California Professor of Chemistry Edward Oscar Heinrich, and his work as a leading criminologist in America. |
Content | Genre: Biography; Crime | Characters: Edward Oscar Heinrich |
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