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| Odd that Leonard Frank gets a typeset art credit on the last story, but none of the other art in the issue--including that by Frank--is credited. |
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| OK!
Can someone explain to me why Captain Midnight didn't end up a DC character, since most of the other Fawcett characters did? |
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| Because he started off as a radio show and Fawcett only licensed the right to use him. |
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| Interesting to note that Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, but this issue featuring active Japanese foes is dated February 1946. Backlog of already-completed stories to be published and the long lead times of pre-digital print media probably to blame. Not too long after, the focus of Captain Midnight's comic book stories shifted to space alien menaces. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | February 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
| Notes | Art credits revised from Len Frank to Moldoff by Craig Delich on August 3, 2013, and confirmed by Moldoff per an interview with P.C. Hammerlinck, in Alter Ego (Twomorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #119 (August 2013). |
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| Cover | Captain Midnight and the Blimp Patrol! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; Superhero | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright] |
| Notes | Art credits revised from Len Frank to Moldoff by Craig Delich on August 3, 2013, and confirmed by Moldoff per an interview with P.C. Hammerlinck, in Alter Ego (Twomorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #119 (August 2013). |
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| Synopsis | Two skaters remark about how Wheaties makes the skate jumper better at jumping. |
| Featuring | General Mills; Wheaties |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports |
| Notes | Inside front cover.
Comic advertisement for Wheaties "Breakfast of Champions" cereal from General Mills, Inc. |
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| PSA | Watch That Broom! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; Superhero | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright] |
| Notes | About roughly 1/3 of the page contains the editorial credits and indicia for this issue.
Captain Midnight encourages continued collection and saving of paper for continued peace. |
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| Comic Story | The Blimp Patrol (6.67 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; Superhero | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; two unnamed American pilots; Ichabod Mudd [Icky]; unnamed US Navy Captain; unnamed Japanese sailors (villains) |
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| Publisher advertisement | He's Sensational! |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
| Notes | Promotional advertisement for the Captain Marvel Jr. feature in his own comic and Master Comics. |
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| Flaming Flickers (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A fire breaks out in a movie theater and R.C. and Quickie help calm the audience to everyone leaves in an orderly fashion without panicking. |
| Featuring | Adventures of "R.C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola |
| Credits | Script:? (comic story);? (ad copy) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: R.C.; Quickie; Johnny Mack Brown |
| Notes | Comic advertisement for Royal Crown Cola. Johnny Mack Brown plugs the cola as well in the last panel. That panel also encourages readers to see Brown in his new movie, "Border Bandits" from Monogram Pictures. |
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| Comic Story | Ideas for the War or for the Home Front! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Readers submit invention ideas. Ideas included metal plating to extend decks of aircraft carriers, prison searchlights with machine guns attached to them, giant ship to transport submarines, comb and brush combination, and a bomber with collapsable wings to allow the aircraft to bomb trains in tunnels. |
| Featuring | Your Invention Page! |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Submitters are Gerald Sanford (of 5005 West Greenfield Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Harry Mindree (of 904 Cynthia Street, Poplar Bluff, Missouri), Teddy Turk (of 7807 Delmar Boulevard, University City, Missouri), Arnold Anstee (of 36 West Avenue, Geneva, New York), and Eugene Hobart (of 3626 Humbolt, Denver, Colorado). |
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| Featuring | Johnny Blair, in the Air |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Sergeant Twilight Hunted Man!--- (6.67 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Midnight; Sergeant Twilight |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; Superhero | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Sergeant Twilight [Ichabod Mudd, Icky]; Eaglebeak Jukes; three unnamed members of Jukes' gang; unnamed sheriff; unnamed members of sheriff's posse |
| Notes | The story has a Captain Midnight logo but features primarily Icky's Sergeant Twilight persona. |
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| Featuring | Capt. Midnight's Fighting Air Insignia |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Feature showing the insignia for the 20th Observation Squadron and 21st Fighter Squadron. |
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| Advertisement | Captain Marvel Magic Folder, Captain Marvel's Rocket Raider |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for Captain Marvel Magic Folder (for five cents) and Captain Marvel's Rocket Raider (for ten cents). Ordering through the Captain Marvel Club, 49 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut. |
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| Synopsis | Volto arrives in time to save everyone from an experimental plane that catches fire. |
| Featuring | Volto from Mars; Grape-Nuts Flakes |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Volto; Joe; Jimmy; LIly |
| Notes | Comics advertisement for Grape-Nuts Flakes cereal. At the bottom of the advertisement is a blurb encouraging readers to listen to Hop Harrigan on the American Broadcasting Network (ABC), Monday through Friday at 4:45 p.m.
Copyright 1946 by General Foods Corporation. |
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| Text Story | Look to the Hills (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Red Skye |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Red Skye; Colonel Reed; Lao-Chang; unnamed Chinese boy; O-Lan |
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| Comic Story | The Flame Planes (7.67 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; Superhero | Characters: Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Joyce Ryan; Mitsuo; unnamed Japanese military leader; unnamed US Navy Captain; unnamed US Naval pilot; Ichabod Mudd [Icky] |
| Notes | The begins in 1938 before forwarding to the end of the war.
In an example of the changes in attitude circa 1945-1946 as opposed if this story was written in 1941-1942, is the panel in which Joyce ponders her doubts about Albright's lab assistant, Mitsuo, "There's something I don't like about that little Japanese! I'll keep an eye on this room tonight! If I remember right he isn't an American born Nisei. They can be trusted!" |
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| Publisher advertisement | Capt. Marvel Says: |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Captain Marvel |
| Notes | A promotional advertisement featuring Captain Marvel for Wow Comics, Whiz Comics, Captain Marvel Jr Comics, and Master Comics. |
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| Advertisement | Meet a Bit-o-Honey (1 page) |
| Featuring | Bit-o-Honey |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Domestic |
| Notes | Advertisement for the Bit-o-Honey candy from the Schutter Candy Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The advertisement also has a coupon offer from Bit-o-Honey for the free "What's Your Number" booklet. |
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| Advertisement | Premiums or Cash Given (1 page) |
| Featuring | Cloverine Brand Salve; Wilson Chemical Company |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations);? (photographs) | Inks:? (illustrations);? (photographs) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement looking for commission agents to sell Cloverine Brand Salve from the Wilson Chemical Company of Tyrone, Pennslyvania. |
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| Advertisement | I Will Show You How to Learn Radio by Practicing in Spare Time (1 page) |
| Featuring | National Radio Institute |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photographs) | Inks:? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Mr. J. E. Smith |
| Notes | Insider back cover.
Advertisement for the National Radio Institute's (of Washington, D.C.) radio training course with the offer of the free sample lesson "Getting Acquainted with Receiver Servicing" and the book "Win Rich Rewards in Radio". |
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| Advertisement | Send Direct to Hollywood (1 page) |
| Featuring | Janne of Hollywood |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photograph);? (illustration) | Inks:? (photograph);? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement for Janne of Hollywood (of Hollywood, California) for a Hound's Tooth Slack Suit, a Bow Blouse, and a Spotlight Jumper. |
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