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Publication | January 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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Featuring | The Sword |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Magno; Davey; The Sword; The Lancer; Mr. Risk; Dr. Nemesis; Hap Hazard |
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Comic Story | Death Is Never Rationed (13 pages) |
Synopsis | The Clown tries to steal a formula for turning metal into gold. |
Featuring | Magno the Magnetic Man |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Magno; Davey; The Clown (villain) |
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Comic Story | The Blood Bank Massacres! (8 pages) |
Synopsis | A Japanese agent infects US soldiers with leprosy. |
Featuring | Dr. Nemesis |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dr. Nemesis |
Notes | Final Golden Age appearance. Decades after the character entered the public domain, Marvel Comics created their own version of Dr. Nemesis (now calling himself Dr. Death). He was introduced in INVADERS (Marvel, 1993 series) #1-4. He later returned in UNCANNY X-MEN (Marvel, 1981 series) #504, where he once again used the name Dr. Nemesis.
One indexer lists art credits as Louis Ferstadt. |
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Synopsis | Hap goes on an office picnic, gets sprayed by skunks & finds a couple of German sailors. |
Featuring | Hap Hazard |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Hap Hazard |
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Synopsis | The Goth & The Hun join Fay Morgana to stir up prejudice against foreign workers in a war factory. |
Featuring | The Sword |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Sword;The Lancer; Merlin; The Goth; The Hun; Fay Morgana |
Notes | The final panel is taken up by the Statement of Ownership. |
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Comic Story | The Cougar (7 pages) |
Synopsis | The Cougar (a blackmailer) kills one of a pair of twins to protect his identity. |
Featuring | Mr. Risk |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: Mr. Risk; Abdul; The Cougar (villain) |
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Text Story | The Gold-Dust Kid (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Jack Blood is one day away from inheriting his father’s ranch, what could go wrong? |
Credits | Script: B W Gardner [as Cliff Howe] | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
Notes | This story is reprinted from the pulp magazine Western Aces (April 1941) credited to Gunnison Steele, a pseudonym used by B W Gardner. The house name Cliff Howe is used here. |
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Comic Story | Fats to Fry the Axis (7 pages) |
Synopsis | German agents try to sabotage the waste fats campaign |
Featuring | Paul Revere Jr. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Paul Revere Jr; Betsy Ross ; Pat Henry |
Notes | 1st page is signed "Lou" |
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