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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Minute Man [Jack Weston]

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Major Victory

Character(s): Major Victory; Father Patriot; John (guard at the dam, death); unnamed guard at the dam (death); The Boss (villain); The Boss's gang (villains); Jake (villain, escaped prisoner)

First Line: It is the Legion of Lost Souls that strikes...

Synopsis: Major Victory foils a plot to destroy a dam. The murderers of two guards there are caught and sentenced to death. But no sooner than this is done, the Boss, hired by an Asian power, recruits escaped prisoners to hijack American merchant ships carrying supplies to the Far East.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Radior [Radior Kennedy] (son of Professor Kennedy, introduction, origin); unnamed Air Force Colonel (introduction); Lieutenant Gene Loughran (pilot); Arlene Loughran (the Lieutenant's sister, becomes Radior's secretary); Professor Kennedy (radium, expert, in flashback); Doktor Teufel (villain, saboteur leader, death); Operator 4 (villain, camp clerk, death)

First Line: In the free skies of America...

Synopsis: A group of saboteurs are using a mysterious ray to deflect radio beams in order to cripple air craft flying instruments, and a young Lieutenant is sent out to scout Death Mountain, believed hideout for the saboteurs. Meanwhile, a young draftee, Radior, astounds Camp Columbia with his physical powers, and he reveals to the camp commanding officer his origin and identity, and offers to follow Loughran to Death Mountain to deal with the saboteurs.

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Pages: 16

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Twister [Bob Sanders] (origin retold); Odysseus; Aeolus (god of the winds); Pete Sanders (Bob's father)

First Line: It seems that Odysseus, in his travels (according to Greek mythology)...

Synopsis: According to Greek mythology, Odysseus visited Aeolia, seeking out Aeolus to provide favorable winds for his ship. His wish was granted, but Aeolus also gave Odysseus a sealed bag of unfavorable winds and was told not to open it...but he did, and the winds blew his ship back to Aeolia. Aeolus was furious and demanded that Odysseus tracked down and capture the bad winds or reap the consequences...but he never did. Bad winds one day hit a red school house in Windy Gap and a student, Bob Sanders, was taken up in it and given strange powers, which he used as The Twister.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Twister [Bob Sanders]; Mr. Norton (cab company owner, introduction); Tony the Tornado (villain, taxi-cab racketeer); Tony's gang [Mugsey; rest unnamed](villains, introduction for all)

First Line: The office of Tony the Tornado -- notorious New York taxi-cab racketeer...

Synopsis: Tony is furious as he reads the conclusion to the Twister story in Blue Bolt Comics Volume 2 #1, and decides to do kind deeds so that the Twister will like him. Suddenly the Twister appears and gives the whole gang a lesson they'll never forget and gives fair warning to them for the future. But Tony won't listen and attempts to use his cabs to damage those of his rival cab owner. Twister visits Tony again and gets vital information linking the racketeer to the deeds and turns it over to the Police.

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Dynamic Boy

Character(s): Dynamic Boy [Kent Banning] (Dr. Brown's adopted son); Dr. Brown; Brown's daughter; unnamed dope ring leader (villain, death); dope leader's gang (villains); Dr. Holmes (villain, medical center superintendent); Hideous (villain, strong-arm gang member)

First Line: It took all the power and cunning of the mighty little Dynamic Boy...

Synopsis: Dynamic Boy pits himself against a drug ring that has a diabolical plan to rob the city's doctors of all of their drugs, then feed them to the wretched users who will pay any price to get them.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Chief Murphy; Veronica Puddle (Policewoman); Officer Clancy (death); Officer Joe; Dr. Gleason; Burp the Beak (villain); Al (villain)

First Line: Just a minute!

Synopsis: Nick arrives at Grand Central Station just after his friend, Officer Clancy is gunned down by one of Burp the Beak's men, so he goes on the trail of the criminal, with the help of The Owl...and Policewoman Puddle.

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The Fuehrer Sends a Killer!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Minute Man [Jack Weston]; General Milton; Maxwell Rabeaux (artist, death); unnamed radio station receptionist (death); unnamed government printer (death); Slim (Jack's friend); General Milton's daughter; unnamed killer (villain)

Synopsis: The death of a famous artist who specialized in painting National Defense posters piques the interest of Jack Weston and General Milton, sending Minute Man into the fray, hoping to draw the killer out into the open.

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Pages: 8

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Triple Terror [Chemix [Barton Brandon]; Lectra [Richard Brandon]; Menta [Bruce Brandon]]; Professor Walters (inventor, death); Diana Walters (daughter of Professor Walters); Dr. Mario (villain, Walter's lab assistant); The Glove (villain, death); the Glove's gang (villains, all die)

First Line: This burning oil is closing in on us...

Synopsis: Having rescued the daughter of Professor Walters, whose death ray is in the possession of the villainous Glove and his gang, the Triple Terror are happy to have recovered the radium stolen by the Glove, even though the inventor was murdered by the Glove's men. When Diana points out that Mario was somehow involved with the Glove, the theft of the invention and the murder of her father, the Triple Terror vow to return the stolen radium, capture the Glove and Mario, and destroy the Glove's island hideout.

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Mr. Pinch (flower store owner); Peecolo; Knuckles Kniedler (villain); Knuckle's Gang [Chuck; Hymie; others unnamed] (villains)

First Line: I am outta stir on good behavior, boys...

Synopsis: Knuckles is now a gardener, thanks to his "training" in prison, growing poppies, after he forcibly takes over a flower shop. But Lady Luck soon uproots his profession and sends him once again up the river.

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Genres: humorous, mystery

First Line: Calling Wun Cloo! Calling Wun Cloo!

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Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Flint Baker

Character(s): Flint Baker; Mimi; Prince Micho (son of King Morrin, introduction); Morrin (former King of Uranus, death); Tolgamo (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: As the Rogue Star hurtles through space...

Synopsis: Flint and Mimi are heading for Foressa, the tree kingdom on the planet Uranus, unaware that Tolgamo has taken over. Flint then helps secure the throne of Foressa for Prince Micho.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Mirror Man [Dean Alder]; Benton (student at Alder Academy); unnamed Police Captain; Bennett (Academy instructor); Drew Thorne (member of the State Boys Reformatory); Bob Britt (Tommy's brother); Tommy Briit; Professor Gregg (villain)

First Line: To save young Benton from mad professor Gregg, The Mirror Man becomes visible...

Synopsis: Mirror Man saves young Benton from the clutches of the evil Professor, but takes a bullet in the should doing so. Benton assists him to a mirror, through which the hero passes, rests and recovers from his wound. After Gregg is jailed, Alder is informed of young Tommy Britt being cheated out of money at the Cattail Club, so Mirror Man takes a hand before Tommy's brother Bob takes on the thugs at the club alone.

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Sergeant Twilight Trails a Tale!

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Genres: adventure, aviation

Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim "Red" Albright]; Ichabod "Icky" Mudd [as Captain Twilight]; The Mad Maniac [Andre Landon] (book author)

Synopsis: Mudd decides to become an author of a book, and he creates a mythical hero called Sergeant Twilight, and ends up battling a villain called The Mad Maniac. He discovers, however, that the supposed villain is actually another book author involved in a publicity campaign for his own book!

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Pages: 6.67

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Sub-Zero; Captain Ronson (of Naval Intelligence); Bart Neill (business agent of the torpedoe workers union, death); R. V. Prentiss (head of the arms company); Mr. Ketler (villain, foreign agent); Ketler's gamg (villains)

First Line: Furnaces roar and dynamos hum...

Synopsis: U. S. Naval Intelligence enlists the aide of Sub-Zero to investigate the disappearance of two radio-controlled torpedoes from the Prentiss Naval Arms Company. They witness the murder of the Torpedo Union's business agent, but soon a member of the union reveals himself to be the killer of Neill and Sub-Zero rounds up the agent and his gang posthaste.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Topaz (villain); Bugs Dugan (villain); Fingers Fips (villain)

First Line: When an educated crime exponent turns teacher and passes his evil learnings on to his more illiterate colleagues...

Synopsis: Just released from prison, Topaz starts a school and turns teacher to pass along his evil learnings to his more illiterate colleagues, expecting his students to reward him with the fruits of their felonious crimes.

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On the Beam!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Target [Niles Reed]; The Targeteers [Dave Brown; Tom Foster]; unnamed army intelligence major; Dan McCunn; Steff (villain); Nazi spies (villains)

First Line: The reat pleat and the stuffed cuff get mixed into a spy-chasing story...

Synopsis: Military Intelligence sends Niles to a local night club to see if he can garner information on suspicious-looking men that have regularly been hanging out there. He discovers that a comdeian's valet is linked with Nazi spies, and the Targeteers go to town on them, learning that the spies were using purported fan mail to relay U.S. naval secrets back to Germany.

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Crippled Vengeance: Chapter Three

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Thirteen and Jinx

Character(s): Thirteen [Harold Higgins]; Jinx [Darrel Creig]; Marie Duvall; Red (armored car driver, death); Mike (armored car driver, death); King Questionmark [also as Mrs. Dodge] (villain); Hitler (villain, introduction, gangster); Goebbels (villain, introduction, gangster); Lord Haw Haw (villain, introduction, gangster)

Synopsis: Thirteen, Jinx and Marie make it out of the burning house and to a car that they hope to make a get-away in, believing that King Questionmark has perished in the fire. But the King has survived and knocks over an armored car for the cash, accidently leaving one of his cronies behind for the Police to capture. Unfortunately for Thirteen and Jinx, King Questionmark busts Gobbels out of jail and the villain casts a bomb into the air.

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Green Lama

Character(s): Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]; Tsarong; Jean Parker (Dumont's assistant); Dr. Sommervell (Jean's Uncle, introduction); Sachem [Dr. Sommervell's spirit] (death); Mr. Dumm (banker); Cassidy (a Policeman); Slippery Sam (villain); The Red Gang (villains)

First Line: When the Iroquois tablets were stolen from the Indian museum...

Synopsis: Jean calls Jethro and asks him to come over as the Green Lama to the Indian Museum to meet her uncle and curator of the museum. Dr. Sommervell feels that the museum's Iroquois Tablets are phony but can't figure out why, so The Lama enters the Realm of History to discover the truth. There, in 1204, a spitting image of Dr. Sommerville as a Sachem is falsely accused of stealing the tablets and he gives the real tablets back to his own time, and they are presented to Dr. Sommervell and Mr. Dumm, as well as having Slippery Sam and the Red Gang arrested for plotting to steal the tablets.

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The Black Flag

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Genres: adventure, war

Character(s): Blackhawk [Bart Hawk]; The Blackhawks [Olaf; Hendrickson; Chuck; Stanislaus; Andre; Chop Chop]; Governor Drage; Mayor Luro; Captain Morgg (villain, introduction); inhabitants of Hermoso Island; Morgg's pirate crew

Synopsis: 250 years before, the infamous pirate, Morgan, attempted to land on an island to bury his war booty, but was driven away. Now, to commemorate 250 years of freedom, the islanders of Hermoso invite the Blackhawks to the celebration. However, a real, evil pirate of sorts named Morgg intervenes and stages a real invasion.

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He Ain't Stupid

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Cyclone Cupid [Cupid] (first appearance; origin)

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