| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 24, 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Every four weeks |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman] |
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| Contents | In This Issue (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: Mac Raboy | Inks: Mac Raboy |
| Content | Characters: Captain Marvel Jr. |
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| Comic Story | Liberty for the Chetniks (12 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; The Wizard (villain) |
| Notes | Alter Ego #120 (September 2013) indicates that many panels of this story contained photostats of Captain Marvel Jr. figures adhered to the art pages. |
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| Comic Story | Battles the Murderous Wizard! (13 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Bulletman [Jim Barr] |
| Notes | Titled "Battles the Wizard of Murder" in the table of contents. |
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| Text Story | Chapter VIII (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Hoodoo Hannigan |
| Credits | Script: Joseph Millard | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Minute Man Meets the Mummy (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Private Jack Weston receives a coded message for him to investigate the death of a military intelligence agent in Egypt, whose last words were "The Mummy lives!" before he died. While doing so, he bumps into an Arab who strangely speaks German fluently, and follows him to a secreted Egyptian temple. There he discovers the supposed mummy of Rameses II, who speaks to the faithful and encourages them to support the efforts of the enemies of the American and British invaders. In the end, Minute Man finds out that the mummy is a Nazi in disguise. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Minute Man [Jack Weston]; The Mummy (villain, death); German agents (villains, all die) |
| Notes | Script credit by Craig Delich. The Who's Who lists only Binder as scripter on the strip and is added with a ?
The AC reprint lists Phil Bard as the artist, but the Who's Who indicates many artists working on the strip in this time period. Until some art spotter can conclusively ID this art as Bard, the ? remains.
At story's end, Weston is promoted to the rank of Corporal. |
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| Comic Story | For Victory Buy War Bonds (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Publisher advertisement | Captain Marvel Jr. Joins Spy Smasher! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for the new 100-page All Hero Comics. |
| Featuring | Captain Marvel Jr. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Comic Story | Death Rides the Falls (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Satanus (villain) |
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| Featuring | Balbo's Own Magic Page |
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| Comic Story | Hitler Snowman (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Little Albert builds a snowman to resemble Hitler, then knocks it over. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Albert |
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| Synopsis | The daughter of an old friend of Hopalong is kidnapped by rustlers and left to die. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite (deputy); Betty Wimmot; Sing Hi; Spike (rustler) |
| Notes | Carlson can be recognized by his horses: very long, narrow, tapering heads with two marked lines leading to the nostrils and by the movement of the legs. Notice the outstretched front legs on page 2. |
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