| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly except December and June |
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| Cover | Crook's Goose! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane] |
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| Advertisement | Morrow Coaster Brake (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad For The Morrow Coaster Brake. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man is killed by a phony made up to look like a man who is dead. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Nick Russo (villain, introduction, death); Morton and his gang (villains, introduction) |
| Notes | Originally Al Bryant art id by Craig Delich 9/05, but tilting figures with long upper body and awkward way of standing and walking, and also broad shoulders and narrow head on stretched neck are all pointing to Zolnerowich. He is credited on both pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but inking vary, so uncertain there. |
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| Comic Story | Land of Hypo-Kondria (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky; Chief Medicine Man (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | The Magnetized Blimpy (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy; Repulsive Reardon (first appearance; villain) |
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| Synopsis | Vincent is a "leading figure" on a patriotic parade float: he's labeled as a "black marketeer" and appears in stocks alongside Hitler and a Japanese figure. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza; Mrs. Brumpf |
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| Synopsis | Vincent talks about his neighbors in his sleep. Unfortunately, he's wearing a megaphone so everyone hears him. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza |
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| Synopsis | Vincent abuses his authority as a truant officer. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vincent Palooza; Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | Murder in Jazz Tempo (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Walter DeLeon (introduction, death); Rex Harris (villain, introduction); a drummer (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Text Story | Strangest Island (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of Guam during the war. |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Comic Story | Big Biff Bangs (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; Big Biff Bangs (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | Special Japanese-Irking Detail (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Lt. Patricia O'Neal (introduction); The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Some heads in 3/4 backview with streched neck and the jawbone going back behind the ear point to Tirman, but the short figures and some heads in sideview could be Quackenbush. He is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who for 1944-46. Uncertain. |
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| Synopsis | Butch presents a violin-playing monkey whose repertoire includes many classical pieces. Boss Bangs complains that the monkey missed one beat in one piece. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Synopsis | Boss Bangs is afraid the circus wild man's beard is falling out. Butch tries to help with a "singe," and ends up leaving the wild man clean-shaven. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs |
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| Comic Story | Bout with Woroo Khan (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; Woroo Khan (a wrestler, introduction); Japanese spies (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Same art as the previous issues. |
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