| Additional Information |
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| Publication | October 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent; The Doll Man [Darrel Dane] (inset); Mickey Finn (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Samar (inset) |
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| Comic Story | The Fiends and the Foundry (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doll Man investigates suspicious sabotage activities at a wartime aluminum foundry producing aircraft engine blocks. |
| Credits | Script:? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dr. Roberts; Martha Roberts; Dan (foundry worker); Rolf Korbett (villain, introduction); The Hold Tight America Committee [Herman; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all, one dies) |
| Notes | Maxwell was a house name used by Quality Comics on some of its features. It was also a pen name for artist Lou Fine. |
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| Comic Story | Six Diving Venuses (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Elephant Sacrifice (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Polo is used by a tribe of cannibals to capture Samar. |
| Credits | Script:? [as John Charles] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Samar; Bob (a doctor, introduction); Bob's wife (introduction); Polo (an elephant); a cannibal tribe (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | John Charles, as used at Quality Comics, was a house name used for multiple writers. It is not the UK writer John Charles who started his career in the 1990s. |
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| Comic Story | Diary of the Dead (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zero visits his doctor where the physician shows him the still form of a girl who's malady is considered incurable without a plant the doctor's father discovered in Guatemala. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Zero; Dr. Burns, Senior (a ghost, introduction); Dr. Bill Burns, Junior (Zero's physician, a human, introduction); unnamed ghost (villain, a savage, introduction) |
| Notes | Noel Fowler is a by-line and not the name of an actual person.
Script credit suggested the Who's Who40-43). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
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| Comic Story | Crime at the Clover Club (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson (jazz band conductor, introduction); Toby Tucker (saxophonist, introduction); Bonnie Baxter (singer, introduction); Sisson's band (introduction for all); Pete Jaxon (introduction); Slats Elkin (villain, introduction); Slat's gang (villains, introduction for all) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza |
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| Comic Story | The Purple Monster (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP; The Purple Monster and his gang (first appearance; villains; all die) |
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| Comic Story | Case without Clues (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Capt. Bruce Blackburn; Sonya (villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Phoney Father (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty]; Joe (villain, introduction);
Joe's gang (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Text Story | Master's Meteor (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Script: Robert M. Hyatt | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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| Comic Story | Dream of a Countess (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dusty Dane |
| Notes | dream story |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Poison Ivy vs. Poison Ivy (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy |
| Notes | Fox explains that Poison Ivy strip had to be cut to one page, and has P.I. fight himself. |
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| Comic Story | The Box B Rustlers (4 pages) |
| Content | Characters: The Fargo Kid [Tim Turner]; The Box B Ranch owner (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Zanzibar Incident (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Edith Shaw (first appearance; Spin's sister); The Nazis (villains) |
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