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Publication | July 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly except December and June |
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Cover | The Little Luck God! |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Lala Palooza (inset) |
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Comic Story | The Little Luck God (13 pages) |
Synopsis | The superstitious Anson Mull has bought the Little Luck God to be able to conquer everything by good luck. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Anson Mull (villain); Wayne Tyler (framed of murder); Pug Shuman (blackmailer); Martha Roberts |
Notes | Originally credited "Al Bryant?", but this is Mort Leav; he is identified by his lively faces and figures and by his large hands. |
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Synopsis | Boss decides to give clown Butch a raise because his fan mail proves he's popular. Until Butch is diagnosed with writer's cramp... |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jefferson Bangs; doctor |
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Synopsis | Butch is unwillingly pressed into service impersonating a no-show female clown. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jefferson Bangs |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Tommy; Flossie; Phil |
Notes | strip reprints |
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Synopsis | Blimpy ventures out into outer space to other planets and is view as "rather strange looking". |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] |
Notes | DiPreta script credit removed by Craig Delich. DiPreta did very little writing in his career that is documented and it is very unlikely that he wrote this feature. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vince |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vince |
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Synopsis | Vince gets a war job in a shipyard but his paranoia about Axis spies proves his downfall. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Vince |
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Comic Story | War Ration Book Four (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Bonnie Baxter; Toby; Pete Jaxon (club owner); Bill Brunt |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
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Synopsis | Spin Shaw finds a tribe of New Guinea head-hunters. |
Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw] |
Notes | A few heads in 3/4 backview with the jawbone going back behind the ear could point to Irving Tirman, but the many short figures and narrow heads in sideview look more like Quackenbush. |
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Text Story | The Ghost Comes to Life (2 pages) |
Featuring | Perry Scott |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky |
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Synopsis | Both American and Japanese survivors get ashore on the same Pacific island. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Pierpont Lee; Alababa] |
Notes | Art is by Mort Leav, with his large hands, lively figures and a special crouching way of running, with thighs lifted high. |
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