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| Very odd comic with lots of strangely stylised art (and some that's just plain bad). 2 superhero strips, the other features are all humour. |
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| Some of the art is very cartoony, but I like it OK. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly except June and September |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Red Rube; Steel Sterling |
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| Comic Story | The Space That Wasn't There (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Hector has invented a powerful ray gun that makes things change size. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Sergeant Clancy McGinty; Prof. Hector; Weston |
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| Comic Story | The Secret Rubber Formula (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Banana and Stencho are tricked into buying a bottle of liquid that turns leaves into rubber. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Senor Banana; Stencho Odora; Trickster |
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| Content | Characters: Black Hood |
| Notes | Promo for the Black Hood radio show airing weekdays on the Mutual Broadcasting System featuring the Black Hood standing in a radio studio. |
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| Synopsis | To earn 50 dollars the Applejack boys have to collect it from Wild Mountain Bill, who owes it to their pappy. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Slappy Applejack; Happy Applejack; Wild Mountain Bill; Pappy Applejack |
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| Text Story | Genies Don't Kill (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | She sat up all night beside the coffin of her dead husband and in the morning they found her dead. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Sergeant Duffy; Mrs. Livingston; Doc. Carter; Mr. Cone; Peter Rance |
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| Comic Story | The Haunted House (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ginger and Dotty have to go into the old haunted house to prove they don't believe in ghosts. |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Ginger Snapp; Dotty; Miss Wheedle (teacher); Freddie Flamm |
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| Synopsis | Dr. Hunter has a fortune hidden in a needle and a gang is out to steal it. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Red Rube [Rueben Rueben]; Dr. John Hunter; Mrs. Hunter; Dr. Blatherskee; Blatherskee's gang |
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| Synopsis | The two Witches fight over Genie. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Chimpy; Genie; Itchy Witch; Twitchy Witch |
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| Featuring | Zipsy Doodles |
| Notes | Includes four riddles and image search for things that start with "I." |
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| Content | Characters: Archie Andrews; Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Souphead |
| Notes | Promo for full-color portraits of Archie characters running in Archie Comics #6-10. Bottom portion includes promo to listen to the Archie radio show airing weekdays on WJZ and the Blue Network. |
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| Comic Story | The Experiment (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wilbur has become an air-raid warden. |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Wilbur Wilkin; Principal Pimplerod; Dotty |
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