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| Publication | September 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
| Notes | Art credits verified by Gill Fox. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian] (inset); #711 [Daniel Dyce] (inset); The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins] (inset); The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln] (inset) |
| Notes | Art credits verified by Gill Fox. |
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| Comic Story | The Revolt of General Muerte (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Slugger and Firebrand parachute into the Caribbean nation of Libertad, single-handedly tracking and stopping a coup by General Muerte. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Firebrand [Rod Reilly]; "Slugger" Dunn; General Alfredo Muerte (villain) |
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| Synopsis | Daniel Dyce, Prisoner #711, serving a term for a crime he didn't commit, learns of criminal plots from convicts. Using an escape tunnel, he exits the prison and uses the information he's gained to take down criminals. A new inmate warns him of a heist by gangster Louie Lutz. #711 brings Lutz to justice. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Crime | Characters: #711 [Daniel Dyce] |
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| Comic Story | Super Snooper (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Mosquito Boat Raids (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Synopsis | Chic is aboard a luxury liner heading for South America. He runs afoul of a murder plot in which he becomes the prime suspect. Carter solves the crime as the Sword and defended the honor of Tamara de Vielle, daughter of the ruler of Brazilia. But, despite his success, Chic is forced to flee from the authorities. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: Chic Carter [The Sword]; Tamara de Vielle; Sebastian del Ricco |
| Notes | Jim Amash and Mike Kooiman, in the Quality Companion, categorically state that The Sword was created by Henkel.
Henkel himself said, in Alter Ego #48, that super-heroes didn't interest him. He was more into adventure stories, like those in the movies; he liked realism. Perhaps this was why Carter appeared in costume as The Sword for only a very short time. Added by Craig Delich 2014-1-3. |
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| Comic Story | Duelling the Dope Smugglers (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Plastic Man joins the Police. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Plastic Man [Patrick "Eel" O'Brian]; Captain Murphy [aka Captain Murphey] (introduction); Dopey Joe (villain); Cookie (introduction); Senator A. J. Simms (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dewey Drip |
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| Comic Story | The Hijacker (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Comic Story | The Hogan Brothers (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Superhero | Characters: The Mouthpiece [Bill Perkins]; The Hogan Brothers (villains) |
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| Text Story | Hollywood Stickup (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Mace |
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| Comic Story | The Kidnapped Ambassador (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Phantom Lady foils a plot by the large Eastern nation of Kioland to gain control over its smaller neighbor Herma by tricking it into declaring war on the United States. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Phantom Lady [Sandra Knight]; Don Borden; Kivoya (Ambassador of Herma); un-named oriental houseboy (villain); Tikoy (villain, thug); un-named Ambassador to Kioland (villain); Todd (villain, ex-Navy man) |
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| Comic Story | Presenting Burp the Twerp (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Burp the Twerp (introduction) |
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| Comic Story | Evil on Calona Island (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roy gathers up what notes he can from his father's lab and brings them to Major Adams at the War Department. Once again, however, Roy is attacked for his father's secret formula, and he chases the thieves to their underwater lair, where these members of a German suicide squadron conspire to use the formula to destroy eastern seaports. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Human Bomb [Roy Lincoln]; Major Adams; the Nazis (villains) |
| Notes | Even though the Who's Who doesn't list Gustavson as a writer of the strip, Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash state in the Quality Companion that he created the strip and wrote it, so the question mark with the script credit has been removed by Craig Delich 2013-1-18. Also verified by Gustavson's son, Terry Gustafson.
Letterer credit courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son. |
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