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Genres: superhero

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Madame Strange (American girl reporter); Perry (U.S. Navy's ace spy chaser); The Octopus (villain); Octopus' gang (villains)

First Line: The Yellow Peril reaches greedy claws for America's far eastern outposts...

Synopsis: Madame Strange seeks to stop the evil plans of The Octopus, who has decided now to seize American planes for his Emperor.

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Pages: 9

Notes: Last appearance.

Last panel blurb alerts readers to look for the next Madame Strange story which will reveal if The Octopus survived from drowning. However, this was the last story and that outcome never was published.

Who Is the Purple Tigress?

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Writer(s): Betty Brown (credited) (house name)

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Purple Tigress [Ann Morgan] (introduction); Sally; Thorne (villain, introduction); Stella (villain, introduction); Thorne and Stella's gang (villains, introduction for all); Mrs. Alstyne

First Line: Who is the Purple Tigress? A whole city is piqued...

Synopsis: Ann Morgan, the richest girl in town, changes into The Purple Tigress to stop jewel thieves at a party.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Miss Espionage

Character(s): Miss Espionage [daughter of Mata Hari] (introduction; origin, villain that has reformed); Major Smithson (introduction, intelligence officer); Mati Hari (villain, spy, death, cameo); Count von Bruno (villain, Mati Hari's teacher, introduction, death)

First Line: Out of the smoke and flame of war...

Synopsis: Allied HQ inside Germany assigns Major Smithson the task of locating the modern Mati Hari, who has stolen the plans of Allied occupation armies. In the end, Smithson tracks her down, but she escapes, vowing revenge against the Nazis who used her for their own purposes.

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Pages: 7

A Miracle Takes Place

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Genres: adventure, superhero

Feature(s): Nelvana of the Northern Lights

Character(s): Nelvana [Alana North] (Koliak's daughter, secret agent); Koliak (god of the northern lights); John Keene; King Rano (ruler of Glacia); Prince Targa (son of King Rano); Vultor (villain); "one-ear" (villain, cameo)

First Line: Famine stalks the Arctic, threatening to exterminate the Eskimo race!

Synopsis: Nelvana and John Keene, R.C.M.P. officer, head to Etheria to convince the people there not to attack Earth due to it's use of radio waves. Once there, they find it is under the power of Vultor who plans on taking over Glacia. A war ensues and Glacia is destroyed, but so are the Etherians. Vultor escapes.

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Pages: 8

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Madame Strange; unnamed British ship captain; Lum Soong (Chinese cabaret owner); two enemy agents [Fritz; other unnamed] (villains, both die); Shango Sinu (villain, spy gang leader); Bonzar's spy ring (villains, all die); Sharkskin (reformed villain, death); Nike (villain, radio operator, death)

First Line: In a murky Singapore cabaret...

Synopsis: Madame Strange hits the trail to locate a negative to some film indicating the location of American defense forces, which was photographed, and now spells doom to Singapore if not recovered.

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Pages: 7

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Writer(s): Betty Brown (credited) (house name)

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Genres: adventure, superhero

Character(s): The Purple Tigress [Anita Morgan]; Anita's faithful beaux [Reggie; Henri; Butterball]; Tony Cavoli (baritone); The Flasher (villain, thief, introduction)

First Line: The Purple Tigress, scintillating nemesis of crime...

Synopsis: Accompanied by her faithful beaux, Anita attends the production "Faust" when the Flasher suddenly intervenes and begins taking valuable jewels from attendees. Escaping the clutches of the Purple Tigress, Flasher strikes at several other events before the Tigress manages to capture him.

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Pages: 10

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Black Orchid

Character(s): The Black Orchid [Diana Dawn] (Richard Day's secretary); Richard Day (District Attorney); Captain O'Reilly (mention only); Killer Orbit (villain, image only, death); Doctor Marvane (villain, mention only, death); Doctor Arso (villain, death); Wisp (villain, Dr. Arso's assistant, death); unnamed assistant to Dr. Arso (villain, death)

First Line: Glamorous Dana Dawn, District Attorney Richard Day’s secretary…

Synopsis: Glamorous Diana Dawn, District Attorney Day's secretary, masquerades as the mysterious female sleuth the Black Orchid and solves crime with the aid of her Orchid Ring, which releases paralyzing black vapors.

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Pages: 10

Grandmother of Terror!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton](wealthy debutante); Bob Ableson; Madam Largossi (villain); Jo-Jo (villain); Tohoto (villain)

First Line: All set, Diane?

Synopsis: Spider Widow uses her spiders to suss out an evil Japanese collaborator, Madam Largossi, and bring her and her gang to justice.

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The Riddle of the Radio-Death

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Undercover Girl

Character(s): Undercover Girl [Starr Flagg]; Floyd Armitage (newscaster, death); Dick; unnamed Police Inspector; Lily (carnival performer); "Miss Murder" [Lala] (villain, sword swallower)

Synopsis: Starr begins an investigation to discover by famed newscaster, Floyd Armitage, was killed during a news broadcast just as he was about to reveal information that would have made history: that a certain nation was going to invade an oil rich nation.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Black Venus [Mary La Roche]; Captain Owens (U.S. airman); three unnamed American aces; Nijo (villain); Nijo"s henchmen (villains)

First Line: Black Venus is about to take off...

Synopsis: Black Venus heads toward a Japanese-infested island to rescue three downed American airmen.

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Genres: adventure, jungle, superhero

Feature(s): Panther Woman

Character(s): Ken Barry; Jim Barry; Hendrick van Door; Baku (van Door's servant); Black Panther [Gora] (villain, death); Gora's black panthers [Dinga; Kabong] (both die)

First Line: Treachery, panthers and a vicious woman...

Synopsis: Jim and Ken Barry arrive in Java to investigate trouble on the van Door tea plantation. The new headwoman of the village uses her black panthers, Dinga and Kabong, to prevent the harvest of van Door's tea.

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Spider Woman

Character(s): Spider Woman [Helen Goddard] (daughter of the late Dr. Goddard, introduction); Jimmy (introduction); Jimmy's mother (introduction); unnamed Sheriff (introduction); Earl Parker (villain, introduction); Parker's gang [Gopher; Jack; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)

First Line: A web of mystery shrouds the weird figure who dwells in the Ozark wilds...

Synopsis: A quiet Missouri town is suddenly threatened by violence as the Parker gang has robbed a store, killed its cashier and kidnapped a young boy named Jimmy to facilitate their getaway. However, Helen Goddard witnesses the event, changes to Spider Woman and chases after the gang. She rescues the boy and her costume scares the gang silly into turning themselves over to the law.

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The White Death

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Genres: crime

Feature(s): Veiled Avenger

Character(s): Veiled Avenger [Ginny Spears] [aka Cornelia Velvet] (secretary for the District Attorney); unnamed District Attorney; Darlene Riker (death); Skipper; J. A. Rockweilder (President of the Great Central Railroad); Dr. Claude North (death); Abner Gatthold (villain, bio-chemist, death); Blasto (villain, death); Trigger (villain, death)

Synopsis: The Veiled Avenger begins to smell a rat when a young lady passes away from so-called anemia. The president of a railroad nearly suffers the same fate as do many more patients being admitted to hospitals. The Avenger takes on an alias to see if she can get the criminals involved in the scheme to take the bait. They do and she discovers that the crooks are affecting the health of only very rich patrons in order to take their money."

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Genres: aviation, war

Character(s): The Black Angel [Sylvia Manners]; Lady Lawton; Sir Stafford (of the British Air Ministry, introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); unnamed Nazi Baron (villain, death); the Nazis (villains, some die)

First Line: A children’s war in the skies between British and Nazi planes made entirely of scrap…

Synopsis: The Black Angel takes to the skies in order to deal with the Nazi Air Force that has been attacking the city of London. But in Berlin, the Fuhrer is complimenting young German lads, known as the Scrap Korps, for their collection of airplane scrap to be used in building more planes. So the Angel decides to try and break the morale of the young kids in the Korps, by enlisting the aid of British children to do the same, as a way of dealing with the situation.

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Ned Finagle (villain, blackmailer, death); Gadfly Murdock (villain)

First Line: Heh-heh! The sun's beating down hard on the front steps!

Synopsis: Through an act of cleverness, Ned Finagle has discovered Lady Luck's true identity, and agrees to keep if secret IF she agrees to kill someone for him, one named Murdock, who is trying to cut in on Finagle's racket. Finagle even calls the Police to let them know that he know's Lady Luck's true identity and that she intends to kill Murdock. When the Police find Murdock dead on their front steps, Lady Luck must discover who the true murderer is.

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Hollywood Sabotage

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Pat Patriot [Patricia Patrios]; Delznic (movie producer); Keef (guard on the set); Mr. Reynolds (Boy Scout leader); Walter Mills (villain, actor); Fritz Haubner (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: War! Paramount in the minds of men today…

Synopsis: Miss Patriot is invited on set to watch a new war movie being made called "Fight to Die," and meets the star of the movie, who has fallen for her. However, little does Pat know that the star of the film is in on a Nazi plot to sabotage the nearby aircraft plant.

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Sun Valley Treachery!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Black Cat [Linda Turner]; Tim Turner (Linda's father); Rick Horne; Brenda Lane (actress); Tim; C. B. de Pille (movie director); unnamed crook (villain); Sally Frome (actress)

Synopsis: Linda is on site, having the lead role in "Annie Oakley", and the director announces that the cast and crew will go to Sun Valley for a weekend rest. But Linda notices a rather tough looking character following her father and Rick around, so she switches to Black Cat to investigate.

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The Slaves of Babylon!

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Genres: adventure, jungle

Character(s): Tygra [Lynn Thomas]; Terry; Kokuri Chief; Kokuri's Chief's brother (death); the Assyrians (villains)

Synopsis: Tygra and Terry come upon the dying form of the Kokuri's Chief's brother and learn from the Chief himself that his bride to be has been abducted, but he blames the pair for the foul deed as well as the disappearance of hundreds of his warriors. Tygra discovers an underground area where Assyrian warriors have the kidnapped Kokuri, using them as slave laborers.

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Pages: 10