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Publication | October 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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Cover | Benny the Beep |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan] |
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Comic Story | Benny the Beep (11 pages) |
Synopsis | The Barker has to step in when Benny the Beep frames the Colonel for theft. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Tiny; Major Midge; Lena; Peaches (introduction, the bearded lady); Benny the Beep [Benny Yokavitz] (villain, introduction); Barteer (villain, introduction) |
Notes | Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling ?". |
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Comic Story | The Crazy Criminals (8 pages) |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Rocky Rhodes (first apearance; villain); Nuts Nisi (first appearance; villain); Pete Trigger (first appearance; villain); a phony psychiatrist (first appearance; villain); Dr. Woods (first appearance) |
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Synopsis | Salty Waters dreams he meets a cannibal on a tropical island. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Salty Waters |
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Comic Story | No. 18: The Case of the Rescued Captive (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: G-2 [Don Leash]; The Japanese (villains); Major Kyle (first appearance); Dr. Gates (first appearance) |
Notes | formerly credited to Don Rico but art doesn't match the previous stories credited to Rico. |
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Comic Story | The Arsonist Alderman (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Alderman Kerney (first appearance; villain) |
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Comic Story | The Express Elevator (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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Comic Story | Three Keys to Doom (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver; Edgar Aldington (first appearance; villain); Quimby (first appearance; villain); Jim Connell (first appearance); Sims (first appearance; death); Harrison Walsh (first appearance; death) |
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Text Story | Wagon Train (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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Comic Story | The John Thorpe Murder Case (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; John Thorpe (first appearance; death); Count Torza (first appearance; villain); Dr. Colbu (first appearance; villain) |
Notes | Formerly credited to Ed Dobrotka, but there is no evidence Dobrotka ever worked for Quality. And a letter exists from Busy Arnold to Jerry Bails denying the possibility. |
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Comic Story | The Hoshima Incident (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lt. Commander Harvey Blake; The Japanese (villains) |
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