| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Featuring | Fantasy Isle |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy | Characters: Tippy Taylor |
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| Synopsis | Professor Trepper has created a human automaton who will do his bidding in service of criminal activity. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Fantom of the Fair; Professor Trepper; Agar; Neal |
| Notes | In 1940, the Fantom strip was written by George Kapitan as well as Paul Gustavson and Frank Thomas. No extant evidence exists that is known as to who wrote this particular story.
Same applies to the artist of the story. Besides Gustavson, other known artists include Al Anders and Will Roland.
The story is clearly dervied from the 1920 German expressionist film 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari', with Agar as the Cesare of the movie. |
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| Synopsis | Nelson is ordered to Mercury to uncover a gang of space pirated. |
| Featuring | Space Patrol |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Nick Nelson; Kodi |
| Notes | Wolverton signs in the final panel. |
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| Synopsis | Borden-White and his wife hire Selkirk to lead them over the mountains to the land of Ardak. |
| Featuring | The Inner Circle |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: George Selkirk; Borden-White; Mrs. Borden-White; Attoo |
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| Comic Story | Chapter 3 (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tippy Taylor is on Fantasy Isle, where he is charged by an underground wizard with undertaking the Quest of The Blackstone of Tinilonia. |
| Featuring | Fantasy Isle |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy | Characters: Tippy Taylor; the Colossus |
| Notes | Loomis was previously credited with the script, but Bails' Who's Who only gives him as penciller and inker at Centaur. |
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| Synopsis | Larry receives news that his old friend Sir Wallace Newton has been murdered in Africa by a tribe of headhunters alledgedly led by a renegade white man. |
| Featuring | Larry Kane |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Larry Kane; Magu; Ronald Breighton; Jules Debree |
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| Synopsis | Amusing anecdotes concerning three famous sports figures. |
| Featuring | Superior Men in Sports |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Rube Waddell; Jack Dempsey; Roy Reigels |
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| Synopsis | The Headless Horseman, in reality a young woman named Betty, brings the murderers of a bank teller to justice. |
| Featuring | The Headless Horseman |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Headless Horseman [Betty] (a Western heroine, introduction); Jim Dandee |
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| Synopsis | Short anecdotes on the life and career of boxer Ceferino Garcia. |
| Featuring | Superior Men in Sports |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Ceferino Garcia |
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| Text Story | The Other Fellow (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dr. Raymond Vernon; Craig Stewart |
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| Synopsis | Jon, Lisa and Burke have escaped from the stronghold of Satan Rex, who intends destroying the Earth. They return to Jon's Alaskan workshop, where a powerful rocketship is being developed. They hope to use the mighty power of this ship to decimate Satan's death-dealing machine. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Jon Linton; Lisa Kane; Burke; Professor Kane |
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| Synopsis | Speed and Reel investigate a horse doping racket at the racetrack. Speed disguises himself as a racehorse and wins a race in record time. Unscrupulous gamblers try to put him out of commission, and continue even during the running of the race. |
| Featuring | Speed Centaur |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Speed Centaur [Jerry R. McCoy]; Reel McCoy |
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