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| Thanks for uploading the long-awaited upload to issue 1! More Lady Fairplay is always welcome. :) |
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| Whoa - yes - Lady Fairplay was good and creepily prescient with the current crop of care home scandals in the UK emerging by the day. |
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| Publication | March 1942 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Featuring | Cosmo Mann |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction; Superhero | Characters: Cosmo Mann; the Nazis |
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| Synopsis | Mary is out for a drive after classes were over when it starts to rain. As she puts up the convertible top on her car, she sees an old man reeking of alcohol who says that he has escaped from a nearby home run by the Loathers. When he tells her that there have been six mysterious deaths at the home due to various accidents, Mary decides that Lady Fairplay should look into the matter, discovering that the Loather's were arranging accidents on their clients to collect their insurance. |
| Featuring | Lady Fairplay |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Lady Fairplay [Mary Lee] (school teacher); Clem Jones (old man); Emmy Jones (old man's wife); the Loathers (villains); Loather's servant (villain) |
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| Featuring | Dick Star of the F.B.I. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Dick Star; Pinky |
| Notes | Pencil and inks credits from Jerry Bails' Who's Who in American Comic Books. |
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| Featuring | Jeff Barter |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Jeff Barter; Ted Collins; Abu Rhang (slave trader) |
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| Synopsis | 5 one-panel gag cartoons. |
| Featuring | The Laff Parade |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Tentative art credit based on a comparison of Vin Sullivan art on "Potts the Butler" in Big Shot 10 with these cartoons.
Keith Chandler: This is definitely Sullivan's style. |
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| Featuring | Rick Masters |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Rick Masters; Skinny; Princess Iris; General Drack |
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| Featuring | Buzz Balmer |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: "Buzz" Balmer; Professor Balmer; Hermann (Nazi spy); Adolf (Nazi spy); "Gun-Sight" Sullivan; Major Stanley |
| Notes | Yager signs in the penultimate panel. |
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| Text Article | Mystery in a Cemetary (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | In a burial vault in a Barbados cemetary, coffins are repeatedly jumbled with no explanation. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Everything Happens to Homer |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Homer; Bill |
| Notes | Keith Chandler: This is definitely Sullivan's style. |
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| Synopsis | 5 one-panel gag cartoons. |
| Featuring | Fun for the Money |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels, plus a four panel story involving a baby and a postman. |
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| Featuring | Adventure, Incorporated |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Johnny Pierce; Bud White |
| Notes | Bails credits Ed Moore with writing, pencilling and inking this strip. |
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| Featuring | Cosmo Mann |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Cosmo Mann; Archy; Commander Darke; Joan Stenson |
| Notes | Pencil and inks credits from Jerry Bails' Who's Who in American Comic Books.
Keith Chandler : While the chisled features of the characters do resemble Dworkins' style (as well as that of Sam Hill, who signed the Cosmo Mann story in the first issue) the final panel has a signature which is definitely not Dworkins or Hill. Unfortunately it is printed black on dark blue and is not completely intelligible. It appears to read 'J ?Roy ?Ga...' |
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