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| Publication | July 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sergeant Smith |
| Notes | Five single panel cartoons.
On inside front cover. |
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| Synopsis | Jane's horse panics and runs off with her. |
| Credits | Script:? (adapted from Zane Grey) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tex Thorne: Jane Hoskins; Brim (villain); Clamp Hackett (villain) |
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| Cartoon | Deeper and Deeper; Born Thirty Years Too Soon |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
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| Cartoon | The Smoke Screen; The Take-Off |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Worry Wart |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
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| Synopsis | Red Mack moves Shark and Ace to deal with them later. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Shark Egan; Ace O'Doul; Curly; Kanaka Lew; Limey; Mai Ti; Mary McDermot; Red Mack; Angkar |
| Notes | Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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| Featuring | Popular Crossword Puzzles |
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| Synopsis | Blackie and Billy go to see a sword swallowing act. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Billy Penguin; Blackie Bear; Jimmy Giraffe; Rudy Elephant |
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| Comic Story | Episode 4 (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Alan escapes from the pterannosaur nest. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Hurricane Kids [Alan Burnham; Dave Burnham] |
| Notes | © 1939 by R.S. Callender |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tantor |
| Notes | © by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | The Jack Markey Gang [Part 2] (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jack tries to lay low and focus on bootlegging. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Sheriff Blake; Bo Roark (villain, death); Butch (villain); Jack Markey (villain, death); Jigger Wells (villain, death); Lulu Grove (villain) |
| Notes | © 1939 by Phillips H. Lord Inc. |
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| Cartoon | A Wide Spread; The Accomplices |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Worry Wart |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
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| Cartoon | The Suckers; The Saps |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jones |
| Notes | Four single panel cartoons. |
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| Synopsis | Bronc asks Babs to write a check to show Bat's honesty or treachery. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler [also as Black Rider]; Babs Dalton; Fritz; Bat Wilson (villain); Jose (villain) |
| Notes | © 1939 by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. |
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| Synopsis | Tommy deals with the passengers following the forced landing of the plane. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Tailspin Tommy [Tommy Tomkins]; Skeets Milligan; Betty Lou Barnes; Professor Otto Bumgartner; Miss Stanley; Jeems; Mr. Dunforth; Reverend Meek; Mrs. Wilson; Mr. Plotz; Mr. Trevor; Mr. Holt; Slade |
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| Featuring | Popular Comics Contest |
| Content | Characters: Doctor Zookis |
| Notes | The kid in the drawing looks like Lewis' kid character Herky. |
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| Comic Story | "G"-Men vs the Living Masks (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The villains wait till dark to escape from the G-Men. |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Detective-mystery | Characters: Larry Lane; Buddy Barton; Dr. Toro (villain); Red Johnson [also as Blinky Matthews] (villain); Slim York [also as Pat McCann] (villain); Trigger Dolan (villain) |
| Notes | © 1939 by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | Mr. Wong, Detective (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mr. Wong learns the true identity of one of the suspects. |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Detective-mystery | Characters: Mr. Wong; Captain Sam Street; Carl Roemer; Countess Olga D'Lantrec; Anton Mohl [Mr. Granich] (villain); Mrs. Roemer; Theodore Meisle |
| Notes | Fourth chapter of a five-part adaptation of the 1938 Monogram Pictures movie "Mr. Wong, Detective" starring Boris Karloff.
© 1939 by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. |
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| Featuring | Popular Conundrums |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Billy Penguin; Dennis Shores; Doc Grumpy |
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| Text Article | Prize Winners of April Popular Comics Contest |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Popular Stamp Club |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Riders of the Dawn (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Marshall Preston is sent to clean up Green Valley. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Dad Moran; Jack Preston; Two-Gun Gardner; Grizzly Ike; Jim Danti; Cree; Jean Porter |
| Notes | Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Full names of some characters taken from the IMDB page about the movie. |
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| Synopsis | Granville talks of the joys of aging. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; J. Granville Gurk; Herky's grandpa |
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| Synopsis | The ghosts carry off Toby. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Toby; Oomog |
| Notes | Script and art identification by Hames Ware. |
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| Synopsis | Ben Hur and Malluch watch the chariot races. |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Historical | Characters: Ben Hur; Malluch; Messala; Sheik Ilderim; Baethesar |
| Notes | © 1939 by Stephen Slesinger, Inc.
Fourth chapter of a 7-part adaptation of the novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" by Lew Wallace. |
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| Synopsis | The Gillsy brothers are worried about the bad things happening in the world. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Gillsy brothers |
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| Synopsis | A woman passenger tries to escape the plane with a parachute. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: The Masked Pilot [also as Dwight Ellis]; Marian Brook; Tom |
| Notes | © 1939 by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. |
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| Synopsis | Herky creates a fuzzless peach. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Noodles Nelson |
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| Featuring | Popular Comics Contest |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | New Daisy Lightning-Loader Carbine (1 page) |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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