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We Give You Midnight!

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Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Gill Fox

Inker(s): Gill Fox

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Feature(s): Midnight

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset)

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Pages: 1

The Jumping Bean Abduction

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Credits

Writer(s): Jack Cole (signed)

Penciller(s): Jack Cole (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Cole (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, superhero

Feature(s): Midnight

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Waldo Whiz (introduction); Professor Porgie (villain)

Synopsis: An old "friend" of Doc Wackey is causing trouble afflicting a town with a formula that causes its people to bounce like rubber. Meanwhile, Porgie kidnaps millionaire ex-circus star Waldo Whiz to finance his experiments, one of which is a trip to a planet made of solid gold, while another potion turns Wackey back into a criminal.

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Pages: 9

Tashayoka

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Credits

Writer(s): Toni Blum ?; Otto Binder ?

Penciller(s): Alex Kotzky (signed)

Inker(s): Alex Kotzky (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): Espionage Starring Black X

Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tashayoka (villain)

Synopsis: Black X slips into Tokyo during the Doolitte bombing in order to seduce Japanese actress and spy Tashayoka.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43).

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Credits

Writer(s): Bernard Dibble

Penciller(s): Bernard Dibble

Inker(s): Bernard Dibble

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Archie O'Toole

Character(s): Archie O'Toole; Pansy Gaga

First Line: Your pipe, sire

Synopsis: The Fun-Dictator fires Pansy "The Queen of Burlesque" and hires a new "official dancer to the court" who doesn't appeal to King Archie.

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Pages: 1

The Sextuplets

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Writer(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)

Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inker(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Jester

Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; the Sextuplets (villains)

Synopsis: One of six identically dressed mobsters pulls a bank robbery, but the question is: which one?

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Pages: 5

Notes: The Quality Companion states that Gustavson created this feature and did it the first two years of its existence.

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Writer(s): Robert Turner (signed)

Penciller(s): Jim Mooney (signed)

Inker(s): Jim Mooney (signed)

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Wildfire

Character(s): Wildfire; Helene Bennett; Blair Niles

First Line: Monte Rose, dead on the floor!

Synopsis: Helene Bennett thinks she killed Monte Rose, so she tries to jump off a building. But Wildfire has other ideas.

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Pages: 5

Wanted!

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Writer(s): George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

Penciller(s): George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

Inker(s): George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]

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Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Bozo the Robot

Character(s): Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Carl; Fritz

Synopsis: Two Nazis try to frame Bozo for murder.

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Pages: 5

The Khan

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Reed Crandall

Inker(s): Reed Crandall

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Ray

Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; The Khan (villain, introduction, death); Petrov (villain); Ileana Kamova (villain)

Synopsis: Happy is kidnapped by Mongols and taken to Russia, where his plane is shot down, his captor killed, who leaves a map with his plans behind. The Ray discovers a special Russian division called the Flame Troops who have been trained by The Khan, a descendant of Genghis and Kublai Khan, both of whom had great strength and mystical knowledge. The Khan waylays the Ray long enough to lay siege to Moscow, but, when the Ray recovers, he throws the Khan to his doom from the top of St. Basil's Cathedral.

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Golden-Age Greats Spotlight #5 published June 2011
as The Khan [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Arthur Peddy (signed)

Inker(s): Arthur Peddy (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Rookie Rankin

Character(s): Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Ma Rankin; Spike; Big Jim Donnell

First Line: Crime Takes a Holiday

Synopsis: A woman gives Rookie her baby to hold, and then disappears.

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Pages: 6

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Credits

Writer(s): Jack Cole?

Penciller(s): Jack Cole?

Inker(s): Jack Cole?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, mystery

Feature(s): Wun Cloo

First Line: Wun Cloo! I've just been robbed by a crook...

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Pages: 1

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)

Inker(s): Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): The Purple Trio

Character(s): The Purple Trio [Warren; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill]; Carl (villain); Adolph (villain)

First Line: Among artists donating their services at a Red Cross benefit is...

Synopsis: The Nazis try to steal the proceeds of a Red Cross show.

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Pages: 5

Notes: Alex Blum's gloomy faces are not to be mistaken.

S. M. Regi was a pen-name sometimes used by Jerry Iger, but also by others as a house by-line. Jerry Iger did not write this feature, but that Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.

Murder Never Pays

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Credits

Writer(s): Robert M. Hyatt?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Jimmy Christian

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Pages: 2

Izan

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Credits

Writer(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)

Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)

Inker(s): Vernon Henkel (signed)

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Subject Matter

Genres: aviation

Feature(s): Wings Wendall

Character(s): Wings Wendall; Izan; Captain Grutz

Synopsis: Nazi planes have been smuggled into America and now they're bombing Philadelphia.

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Pages: 6

Zita

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Alex Koda

Inker(s): Alex Koda

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, war

Feature(s): The Marksman

Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Zita; General Feutchwarr (villain)

Synopsis: In order to get out of a Nazi function, the Baron purposely crashes a plane and has Vorka declare him to be unfit for military duty. Then, as the Marksman, he meets the Nazi General with TNT-laden arrows, blowing his train off the tracks. Finally, a girl that the Baron once knew as a child is now working for the underground, and he has to rescue her from the Nazis, hiding her out in his tower hideaway.

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