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Genres: superhero

First Line: The Ray in another daring adventure

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First Line: Boys! Girls! So easy to get exciting things free with guarantee seals from the new Quaker Puffed Wheat and Rice "Sparkies"

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Mitch Mouldin

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Bud; Mitch Mouldin; Mike; Snapper; Mr. Humpel

First Line: Banks are looted...

Synopsis: A gang member kidnaps some reporters and brings them to his boss.

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Pages: 9

Notes: Art credits per article/interview with Gill Fox in Alter-Ego #12 (January, 2002). The splash page for this story was reprinted in B/W.

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): King Archie O'Toole; Jerk

First Line: The national treasury is lower than the seat of a midget's pants!

Synopsis: The king has to raise $7.65 for the national treasury.

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Liver-Lip McGaw

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Genres: adventure, superhero

Character(s): Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Liver-Lip McGraw (villain)

First Line: In all the history of crime never was there so cruel an individual as Liver-Lip McGaw!

Synopsis: Doc Wackey creates a new invention he calls the Visoscope, with which he could survey any part of the city......an invention useful to Midnight in locating a nefarious villain.

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Captain Krawl

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Genres: adventure, aviation

Character(s): Spinner Benson; Captain Krawl; Captain Bennett

First Line: America works night and day to match weapons of foreign powers, to keep this country free of aggression.. and no patriotic sentinel works harder than Wings Wendall..

Synopsis: Captain Krawl captures a battleship using a submarine and gas.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Wears a costume in this story.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Phineas Barr; John Thorp; Joan Thorp; Tom Slade

First Line: A hazy terror of the glens brings chilly fears to those of Oakwood...

Synopsis: Hooded men rob the rich of their treasures.

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Sabotage at the Navy Yard

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Mulligan; Mike

First Line: Roaring mad and soaking wet, detective Mulligan rushes into his office at police headquarters, followed by several policemen...

Synopsis: Mulligan is convinced the Jester is bad when he goes to arrest a man and the Jester shoves him in the river.

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Pages: 5

Notes: People often assume Gustavson wrote all of his material, and this is not so according to Jerry Bails and the Who's Who. Paul often wrote his filler strips, rarely, if ever, anything else.

Basil's Gang

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Genres: espionage

Character(s): Batu; Colonel Atwater; Max; Hugo; Heinz

First Line: Black X is disguised as Old Basil, a spy now imprisoned

Synopsis: Black X disguises himself as Old Basil and receives some photostats from the spies.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Williams is credited on drawing this feature.

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).

First Night

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Genres: mystery

Character(s): Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Nightstick Kane; Jimmy; Mr. Depopoloss

First Line: Hmm...Who's that handsome policeman?

Synopsis: Rankin is ordered to arrest kids watching parked cars.

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Genres: humorous, mystery

Character(s): Wun Cloo (detective); Poison Allity

First Line: Pardon, pal, but could you tell me what that says about me?

Synopsis: Wun meets a crook worth $1,000 for capture.

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Introducing Wildfire

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Frank Vance (Carol's father, death); Marie (Carol's maid); Lord of Fire; Mr. John Martin; Mrs. Martin; Senator Raymond; Heinrich (villain); Dolph (villain); Green Masked Bund (villains)

First Line: Fifteen years ago...

Synopsis: Young Carol Martin is given wondrous powers by the Lord of Fire, which she uses to combat the un-American activities of a group which has kidnapped a famed U.S. Senator, trying to get him to admit to the newspapers that America will not come to the aid of other democracies.

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Men of Mystery Comics #82 published June 2010
as Introducing Wildfire [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Divas, Dames & Daredevils #[nn] published January 2013
as Introducing Wildfire [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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The Pall of Terror

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Jimmy Christian

Character(s): Jimmy Christian; Jed Haggard; Professor Hervey

First Line: Tragedy had never struck Fertile Valley.

Synopsis: For months a strange cloud covers Fertile Valley and prevents rain from falling.

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Pages: 0.34

Notes: Dot-to-dot puzzle.

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First Line: Be sure your new bike has this famous brake!

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Joe; Smokey Sam; J. C. Winsul

First Line: Monkey shines can sometimes prove very serious business..

Synopsis: The Purple Trio discover a book of stock swindles.

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Pages: 6

Notes: 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 Alex Blum, under this pen-name or by-line, did draw the strip.

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): Clive Dow; The Clown (villain); Jeeves; Dip Downe

First Line: Clive Dow, prominent attorney, returns home after a quiet week-end at his country estate ---

Synopsis: Bozo faces a super-powered villain called The Clown, who kills with the aid of a poison. He leaves a card bearing his white-faced visage at the scene of the crime, with his sights set on taking over organized crime. Hazzard and Bozo track him down, but the Clown, by sheer brute force, throws the robot into the river. However, Bozo quickly recovers and tracks the Clown to his hideout and delivers a beating to the villain, then turns him over to the Police.

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Pages: 7

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Character(s): Kent

First Line: Boys and girls it's free!

Synopsis: Kent shows off the Schwinn bicycle he got from the Movie Cyclorama.

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Character(s): Scotty (dog); Tom; Mary

First Line: The Tootsie Roll of honor

Synopsis: A boy rescues his dog.

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Notes: Tom is also called Bobbie.

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