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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: The cover design has been borrowed from the French language strip collection, Charlie Chan (Futuropolis, 1980 series).

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan

First Line: What a nice big round heel you are, Cal Slaker

Synopsis: The Hawk, a master criminal, tries to stop Speedy Crane from pitching for the Centropolis Dolphins, so that he can take over the team from owner June Marberry.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) March 24 to June 9, 1940

Miscellaneous

Pages: 12

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan

First Line: By thunder, Charlie, that girl is trying to commit suicide!

Synopsis: Attorney John Blackley hires professional hypnotist the "Professor" to make Sally Lafton swim into the ocean until she drowns, so that he can steal her fortune.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) June 16 to August 25, 1940

Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan; Kirk Barrow

First Line: Hey! Hold on a minute!

Synopsis: Charlie's son, Lee Chan, arrives home wanting to be a detective. In brief sequences of 1 to 3 strips, Charlie gives him tips and briefly reviews past cases that illustrate crime solving techniques.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) September 1, 1940 to March 16, 1941

Miscellaneous

Pages: 29

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan

First Line: Ho-Hum! Dreary Sunday!

Synopsis: James Hunter asks for help when he is threatened by a masked man who has darts dipped in curare.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) March 23 to June 18, 1941

Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan

First Line: Gosh--Air Raid Bombs--

Synopsis: Charlie tells about a case he solved, before the war, by observing that the hole a bullet makes in a pane of glass shows which side the bullet was fired from.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) May 25 to June 8, 1941

Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan

First Line: Pop, this folder from your file is marked 'The Cat'!

Synopsis: Charlie Chan stops a fugitive with Jiu Jitsu and then uses a spectograph to prove that he is The Cat.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) June 15 to July 6, 1941

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

The Lottery Murders

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan

Synopsis: Lee is quarantined with the measles, so Charlie Chan tells about the lottery murders, a case in which a criminal wrote the names of victims on slips of paper and killed them as he drew their numbers.

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Big Shot #71 published November 1946
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) July 13 to September 14, 1941 The strips are printed out of sequence, with July 27 and August 10 interchanged.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: This story has a title page reading "Omicidi a Sorteggio" "The Lottery Murders". No other story in the book is given a title.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan

First Line: Well the quarantine is off--

Synopsis: Charlie Chan demonstrates, by using mathematics, that Hitler is the Beast mentioned in the book of Revelations. Assign each letter of the alphabet a number beginning with 100 for A. The sum of the numbers for the name Hitler is 666!

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) September 21 to October 19, 1941

Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan; Kirk Barrow

First Line: Kirk! This person is happy as a lark to see you!

Synopsis: Daisy O'Dare, the "girl with a flair," finds a pawnbroker killed with her dagger.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) October 26 to November 30, 1941

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Kirk Barrow

First Line: Wind's beginning to bite, Charlie!

Synopsis: Charlie and Kirk see a small plane crash and burn on the grounds of a large estate. A woman and her brother kidnap the man who took over their father's business.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) December 7, 1941 to February 1, 1942

Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

Notes: December 1 strip is a large portrait of Kirk Barrow, Lee Chan and Charlie Chan, with a Christmas greeting.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan; Kirk Barrow

First Line: Gosh, pop! She's wonderful--beautiful!

Synopsis: Lee Chan is in love with Merry Lee and they are both kidnapped.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) February 8 to April 19, 1942 These strips are printed out of order. They appear 2/8, 2/15, 4/5, 4/12, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29, 5/3, 5/10, 4/19. 5/3 and 5/10 are part of the next story.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan; Kirk Barrow

First Line: Gee whiz, pop! I can hardly believe that we're all safe--

Synopsis: Charlie tells Lee about the time he and Kirk visited actor Jon Evans backstage and his wife Peggy was stabbed.

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Reprint Notes: from Charlie Chan Sunday (McNaught Syndicate) April 26 to May 10, 1942 These strips are printed out of order: 5/3, 5/10, 4/19, 4/26. 4/19 is part of the previous story.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alfred Andriola

Penciller(s): Alfred Andriola

Inker(s): Alfred Andriola

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Charlie Chan

Character(s): Charlie Chan; Lee Chan

First Line: Pop, what's cholera morbus?

Synopsis: Charlie tells Lee about a case where a banker was killed with poison in ice cubes.

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Reprint Notes: from Sunday Charlie Chan (McNaught Syndicate) May 17 to May 31, 1942 (end of strip)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Notes: May 31 strip ends with a box of text reading, "So, Charlie finishes his story to Lee--the last story, for this is the end of the Chan series. And so, for the present at least, many thanks and good-bye!"