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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]

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Pages: 1

The Fiends and the Foundry

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Writer(s): ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited)

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): 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)

First Line: In an eastern aluminum county, aircraft engine blocks are being cast in molds...

Synopsis: Doll Man investigates suspicious sabotage activities at a wartime aluminum foundry producing aircraft engine blocks.

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Pages: 9

The Death of Midnight!!

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Genres: adventure, superhero

Character(s): Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); The Professor; Cyclops Ceylon (villain); Satan (villain); Mrs. Satan (villain)

Synopsis: Midnight tumbles to his death from a battle with Cyclops Ceylon, is declined entrance to heaven, and asks to be sent to Hell so he can fight the Devil himself, only to find out the Mrs. is in charge, who subjects him to unspeakable tortures. Meanwhile, a strange Professor bargains with Doc Wackey, and offers to exchange his life for Midnight's. The gambit works, and Midnight leaves Hell just as he'd convinced its inmates to revolt (and prevent further Nazi evils in the "waking world").

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Pages: 9

Micky Kane

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Wildfire [Carol Vance Martin]; Micky Kane; Tom Kane (Micky's brother); group of thugs (villains)

First Line: In the Martin home one morning…

Synopsis: Wildfire gives Micky Kane a special flame so that he can call her whenever he's in trouble, and he soon discovers a need for it when a group of hoods decides to pilfer an invention of Tom Kane...a special antidote for poison gas!

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Pages: 5

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Writer(s): ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed)

Penciller(s): ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed)

Inker(s): ? [as William E. Eisner] (signed)

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Genres: adventure, war

Character(s): Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Cadaver (villain, introduction, death); Koba (villain, Cadaver's aide)

First Line: A U.S. city near the Canadian border...

Synopsis: The evil Cadaver, gloating over having started the war in Europe, now uses his whiles to convince America that the Canadians are responsible for attacks on the U.S.

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Pages: 9

The Great White Way

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Genres: humorous, sports

Character(s): Daffy; Null and Void (producers); 10 Percent (an agent); a plumber

First Line: So this is the Gay White Way!

Synopsis: Daffy suddenly finds herself as a star in a Broadway show with a possible murder on her hands.

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Pages: 7

Murder in Chinatown

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] (Assistant District Attorney); Michael (Red Bee's pet bee); Dan (Policeman); Zipper (villain, introduction); Zipper's gang (villains, introduction for all)

First Line: Two police officers meet on their beat in Chinatown...

Synopsis: Rick is sent on an assignment to Chinatown to investigate the murder of a Chinese, only to find that opium is behind the whole thing.

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Pages: 8

Hammer Hand

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Terrill's newspaper editor; Hammer Hand (villain)

First Line: First page.. War! Second page.. War!!

Synopsis: Happy Terrill, framed for bank robbery by Hammer Hand, a criminal with a mallet for a hand, is arrested for the crime and loses his job as reporter.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Quicksilver [Max]; Miss Anderson (secretary in the Office of Public Management); group of Nazi spies [Henricks; Joe; Kurtz; Kaufman] (villains)

First Line: So you guys thought you could take this flag down...

Synopsis: Quicksilver gets on the trail of those responsible for blowing up five defense plants.

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Pages: 6

Exact Double

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Archie O'Toole

First Line: Guess I’ll drop down to the beach!

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Pages: 1

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Wonder Boy [Bobby Barnes]; Sally (boat building company's owner); Nazi spies [Karl; rest unnamed] (villains, all die)

First Line: Defying the fury of active Nazi spies...

Synopsis: Bobby spots a suspicious group of men planting TNT under some bridge supports and wades into them, later discovering that if the bridge had come down, it would have blocked a company's boat building harbor.

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Pages: 5

The Phoney Father

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Genres: adventure, childrens, espionage

Character(s): Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Smiley Scott; Ed; Whitey; Scotty]; Joe (villain, introduction);
Joe's gang (villains, introduction for all)

First Line: In the office of Cappy, supervisor of Boyville…

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Pages: 4

The Werewolf War

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Captain Triumph [Lance and Michael Gallant]; Kim Meredith; Biff; Raffrey (villain, a werewolf, introduction, death); Bully Bledsoe (villain)

First Line: So you don’t believe in werewolves?

Synopsis: In a strange town, Kim is kidnapped by a man named Raffrey, who, in reality, is a werewolf. Captain Triumph shows no remorse for the evil creature by delivering a fatal blow to it, even after he had reverted back into human form.

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Pages: 15

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Genres: adventure, war

Character(s): The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Wakovsky (Polish inventor); Adolf Hitler (villain)

First Line: Good! Another Nazi will die!!

Synopsis: Major Hurtz claims to have killed the Marksman as a way of getting invited to Berlin. There, he frees a Polish inventor and smuggles him to Africa in a bomb casing. After the Marksman has freed the Pole, Hitler himself reprimands Major Hurtz.

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Pages: 7

The Dockside Saboteurs

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Hercules [Joe Hercules]; Saboteurs [Kurtz; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)

First Line: A quiet afternoon finds Hercules relaxing at home…

Synopsis: Hercules hears of the sinking of an Allied supply vessel and races to the scene to save the ship. He then volunteers for guard duty to stop the saboteurs responsible.

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Pages: 9

Diary of the Dead

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Genres: mystery

Character(s): Zero; Dr. Burns, Senior (a ghost, introduction); Dr. Bill Burns, Junior (Zero's physician, a human, introduction); unnamed ghost (villain, a savage, introduction)

First Line: Zero, although in touch with the supernatural, is subject to mortal ills...

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.

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The Elephant Sacrifice

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Writer(s): ? [as John Charles] (credited)

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Genres: jungle

Character(s): Samar; Bob (a doctor, introduction); Bob's wife (introduction); Polo (an elephant); a cannibal tribe (villains, introduction for all)

First Line: That was my friend Polo. I must hurry if he’s in danger.

Synopsis: Polo is used by a tribe of cannibals to capture Samar.

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Pages: 5

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; Johnson (bank teller); Professor (villain); Professor's gang (villains)

First Line: 14... 15... hang it!

Synopsis: The Professor creates a spray that reduces a person's size, so the Jester must face a gang of three inch tall bank robbers.

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Pages: 5

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Writer(s): ? [as Frank Kearns] (credited)

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Genres: mystery

Character(s): Sally O'Neil; school kids [Bobby; Margaret; Tom]; school janitor; Murphy (Policeman); Nazi spies [Madam Bloff; Otto; others unnamed] (villains)

First Line: It looked like a routine assignment...

Synopsis: Sally receives what she perceives as a dull blackout assignment: be stationed at a local kid's school. But Nazi spies, planning to blow up the Washington Bridge, make the assignment anything but routine.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: fantasy, war

Character(s): Merlin the Magician [Jock Kellog]; Sergeant Mulligan; The Japanese (villains, some die)

First Line: Caught in the maelstrom of war...

Synopsis: Merlin uses the risen ghostly bodies of ancient pirates to assist an out-manned force of U.S. Marines against the Japanese.

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Pages: 6

The Murder of Moe Jukes

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Genres: adventure, mystery

Character(s): Betty Bates; Tim Donner (introduction); Moe Jukes (villain, introduction, death); Ratty Mulvain (villain, introduction); Jeff (villain, elevator operator); unnamed murderer (villain)

First Line: Betty is at North Point Airfield waiting for a friend in from Chicago...

Synopsis: While meeting a friend at the airport, Betty witnesses the death of a noted racketeer, and, when the smoke clears, a young man holding the gun is nabbed by the police. Betty knows the man is innocent and sets out to prove it.

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The Vengeance

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Genres: espionage

Character(s): Espionage [Black X]; Batu (Espionage's aide); The Vengeance (villain, death); The Japanese (villains)

First Line: Black X and his faithful companion Batu, drop in on an American task force...

Synopsis: Black X and Batu head for the orient in search of the elusive "V Man" and are nearly destroyed by Vengeance.

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Pages: 6