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| Publication | October-November 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover; Sydnie Nathan Industrial Trust Building, Wilmington 7, Delaware.
Earn premiums by selling double-edge razor blades. |
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| Comic Story | Dead Men Don't Drown (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The night before a big yacht race, Paul Wayne was murdered. Inspector Dan Foster solved the case with evidence from a forged suicide note found on the body. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Johnny Talbot; Betty Kenton; Bill Manley; Paul Wayne; Inspector Dan Foster |
| Notes | Subtitled "How a Suicide Note Trapped its Author.
Art ID per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe. Full name per Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Signed with S in a rounded square in the splash panel. |
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| Synopsis | Joe becomes a winner after taking the Jowett bodybuilding system. |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: George F. Jowett; Joe |
| Notes | Jowett Institute of Physical Culture, 230 Fifth Avenue, New York. |
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| Comic Story | The Mystery of the Disappearing Diamonds (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Valuable diamonds and newly valuable gold mine stock are stolen from the safe of formerly wealthy widow, Mrs. Van Upgraff. Stepson Walter Van Upgraff is convicted of the crime, but Lieutenant Tim Allen exonerates him. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Mrs. Van Upgraff; Brenda Van Upgraff [daughter]; Walter Van Upgraff [stepson]; Alice Flint [secretary]; "Pierre Ronsard" [fake artist]; Lieutenant Tim Allen |
| Notes | Second mention of mint juleps in the book. Pencil credit per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe. Frank Motler previously credited Al Cammarata. Splash panel is signed CAMY. |
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| Comic Story | The P.I. and.. the Clocks! (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Postal Inspector H. J. Morgan captures clock repairman/extortionist John Rogers based on a chipped 'M' on his typewriter. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Inspector H. J. Morgan; James Harvey; Charles Rogers; Valerie Kirk; John Rogers |
| Notes | Ingels pencils per Frank Motler. |
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| Text Story | Short Vacation (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pop Collins accidentally captures fugitive killer Moxie Markle, who is boarding at his house. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Moxie Markle; Pop Collins |
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| Comic Story | Trail of Terror (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Escaped killer Madden kidnaps Laura Timmins. Sky Sheriff Breeze finds them and captures Madden. |
| Featuring | Sky Sheriff |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Tenny; Loop; Killer Madden; Breeze Lawson; Tim Timmins; Laura Timmins |
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| Comic Story | Beauty and the Book (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | A rare book containing a valuable map, donated by Clarence Barkey, is stolen from the library. Inspector Moore deduces that shady businessman Eddie Calvin's secretary, Corky Tobin, is the crook. |
| Credits | Script: Bud Willard (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Inspector Moore; Mr. Perkins; Eddie Calvin; Richard Barnell; Corky Tobin; Clarence Barkley |
| Notes | Subtitled "How Did Murder Trap a Book Lover?" |
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| Comic Story | The Mystery of the Speaking Alibi (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zorra dies during an emergency operation by her brother. Her husband Veno kills the doctor and tries to make it look like a suicide. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Veno the Ventriloquist; Zorra [his wife and assistant]; Doctor [Zorra's brother] |
| Notes | Unknown artist identified as "Puppetface" per Jim Vadeboncoeur via Steven Rowe. |
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| Comic Story | Jailbreak (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Six murderers escape from prison. Three are captured by an old farm couple, two spotted by police while lighting a cigarette in a trailer, one by allowing a woman to call a doctor for her sick baby. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Warden John Crane; Trimble; Grant; Selby; Mac; Pete; Tom Black [escaped prisoners] |
| Notes | Pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur and Hames Ware via Steven Rowe. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for flexible shaft tools.
Foredom Electric Co., 27 Park Place, New York. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Protam diet plan.
Associated Nutrition Products, Inc., 150 Nassau Street, New York. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Triolette from Wilco Co.
Back cover. |
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