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Genres: superhero, war

Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; the Nazis

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Pages: 1

Notes: The scan at GCD for the original cover has Schomburg's signature blocked out. The reprint here has restored the signature.

The Minstrel!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Martha Roberts; Rodolfo Bohanini (orchestra conductor); The Minstrel (villain, introduction); Minstrel's gang (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis: A troubadour called The Minstrel goes on a music-themed crime spree with his unique trick banjo/gun.

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Pages: 11

The Gremlin and the Airplane

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Genres: fantasy

Character(s): The Man in Black [Mr. Twilight] (narrator); Father Time (introduction); Googy the Gremlin (introduction); Ken Parks (introduction); Dr. Knowles (introduction); Patsy (introduction); Patsy's family (introduction for all); Worryin' Warren (introduction); Thor; Satan (villain)

First Line: Good evening! I am Mr. Twilight, your story teller — The Man in Black!

Synopsis: The World-Mirror offers to pay $25,000 to anyone who can fly coast to coast in four hours or less, and Ken Parks decides to take on the challenge.

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Pages: 7.5

Origin of the American Crusader

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The American Crusader, Defender of Democracy

Character(s): The American Crusader [Professor Archie Masters] (introduction, origin); Jane Peters (Master's Secretary, introduction); Professor Scott (physicist, introduction); Doug (G-Man, introduction); Lola (Doug's fiancee, introduction); un-named criminal boss (villain, introduction); the Boss' gang [Augie; rest un-named] (villains, introduction for all); Kruz (villain, ex-Senator, introduction); Scarface Nick Polazi (villain, gangster, introduction); General Oyster (villain, ex-Nazi Officer, introduction)

First Line: At Grand University, Professor Archibald Masters announces a discovery...

Synopsis: Delighted that he has discovered a new planet near Uranus, Professor Masters rushes off to tell Professor Scott and accidently enters a test chamber of Scott's atom smasher, and, as a result, has his entire atomic structure rearranged, giving him unlimited powers. He needs them for he must battle an ex-Nazi officer and his gang of traitors who intend to destroy democracy in the United States.

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Komodo Goes A'Courting!

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Feature(s): Red Dragon

Character(s): The Red Dragon; Komodo (a dragon); Ching Foo; Emperor Hirohito (villain, cameo); The Japanese (villains)

Synopsis: Komodo wanders away and soon comes across a female Komodo dragon, and the Red Dragon and Ching believe that "love" is in the air, when, in reality, the female dragon is a clever trap being laid by the Japanese.

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Genres: fantasy

Character(s): Thor (ancient god); Grant Farrel [also as a Mongol traveller]; Glenda; The Grand Llama; General Wong (villain); Wong's Army (villains)

First Line: Heir to the supernatural power of the ancient god Thor, Grant Farrel is summoned to Valhalla.

Synopsis: Grant must stop the bandit thief Wong and his men from securing the vast gold hoard of Buddha.

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Pages: 12

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Scarlet Arrow

Character(s): Scarlet Arrow [Alan Bidell]; Roxanne (Alan's sweetheart); Roger; Senator Claxonhorn; fake Senator Claxonhorn (villain); Montmorcey (villain, fake Senator's bodyguard)

First Line: Roxanne! Come down here!

Synopsis: Roxanne's father is throwing a charity bash, and the money is supposed to be presented to a blowhard U.S. Senator. However, the Arrow must step in when it is discovered the Senator and his bodyguard are imposters.

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Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Tabu

Character(s): Tabu; the Panther Princess (Priestess of the Panther Temple); Chief Lango; Songhais (African tribe); Hawkins (villain); Ayah (villain); Spade (villain); Araki (villain, witch doctor/medicine man)

First Line: Stop -- all you who hear these mournful words -- and ponder!

Synopsis: Tabu spots evil doings on the funeral barge of the Songhai and uses his magics to raise the spirits of the Princess's panthers to chase away the criminals, then seeks to revive the seemingly dead Princess. Once she is revived, the duo head to the kraal to take on the criminals, who have stolen rare jewels from the tribe.

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Genres: fantasy, science fiction

Feature(s): The Red Comet

Character(s): The Red Comet (introduction); un-named police captain (introduction); The Munitions King [J.G.] (villain, introduction, death); Munition King's war-profiteers (villains, introduction for all, all die)

First Line: The year is 2040. Man has progressed in great strides…

Synopsis: While the public is amazed and elated that no crimes have been committed for two weeks, the police feel that their jobs are less secure because of the crime busting activities of the Red Comet. His magical powers seem to draw him like a magnet to the criminal element, and he has rounded them up with amazing speed, taking each to a different uninhabited but inhabitable planet and dropping them off to fend for themselves.

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Violins for Villainy!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Black Terror [Bob Benton]; Tim [Tim Roland]; James Spragg (wealthy patron of the arts); Jarvis (Spragg's butler); Harold Cosgrove (young violinist); Halloran (villain); Halloran's gang [Red; others un-named] (villains)

Synopsis: A wealthy patron of the arts decides to find a deserving youngster who will appreciate his Stradivarius violin by holding a music contest in Vocalian Hall. Unfortunately, a group of crooks decide that the violin could line their pockets with much needed cash, so they kidnap, then disguise, a young violinst, to win it for them, and it's up to the Terror Twins to stop them.

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Wanted for Murder

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Nightmare and Sleepy

Character(s): Nightmare [Bob Whiyte] (a wrestler); Sleepy [Terry Wake] (White's teenage manager); Rooney (detective, White's pal); un-named Chief of Police; Chuck Harris (world champion wrestler); Sweeney (champion swimmer, death); Roy Nelson (champion boxer); Riles (boxer, mention only); Toro (a tiger); Skeik (a shark); Fargo (villain, death)

Synopsis: Nightmare and Sleepy investigate the disappearance of ten athletes who vanished in the span of one week and discover a man who pits the athletes in do-or-die battles so that others can bet on the event.

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The Birth of the Gun!

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Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Gun Master

Character(s): Gun Master [Dumas Poe] (origin); Kattak Po (original Gun Master, flashback, death); un-named brother of Kattak Po (flashback); Kattak Po's son (flashback, death); Kattak Po's grandson (flashback); Captain Kane (of homicide); Velvet [as V. Silver] (villain, gun shop owner); Lefty Finger (villain); Duke Dillon (villain)

Synopsis: The original Gun Master, named Kattak Po, has his invention of gunpowder and iron tube which can fire a projectile (early example of a gun) is stolen from him, and the charge is made to his descendants to track down the criminal if they can, but, most importantly, commit their lives to stopping the use of this weapon. Now, the last able-bodied descendant of Kattak Po, Dumas Poe, carries on that tradition.

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The Crow from Space

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Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Rex Dexter

Character(s): Rex Dexter; Jan (introduction); Yna (introduction); The Hunter (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: Inside the rocket ship -- Take the controls, Cynde.

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Phantasmo

First Line: Whizzer and Phantasmo stroll onto an old pier...

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Airboy Fights the Ice People

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Genres: adventure, aviation

Character(s): Airboy [David Nelson II]; un-named Army Major; The Sightless People [Tamerac (patrol Captain, death); Zirac (their leader); Tintia; others un-named]; The Ice-Incas [Torko (interpreter); rest un-named] (villains, all die?); The Food Gulls (villains, birds)

First Line: Our scene is in the far north, at the top of the world…

Synopsis: Airboy crash lands in Point Barrow, Alaska, and is rescued by the sightless people. Soon, all are attacked by the Ice-Incas, but they are cleverly avoided, and Airboy is taken to the tropical Hidden Valley, the village of the sightless ones. Here he is asked to help co-ordinate an attack on the Ice-Incas...but a wary Airboy eventually discovers that the Ice-Incas really are villains.

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Introducing the Weaver

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Genres: adventure, historical

Feature(s): The Weaver

Character(s): The Weaver (narrator, introduction); Gracchus (a gladiator); Ledra (Gracchus' wife); Marcus (Ledra's Uncle); Crassius Livitcus (leader, death)

First Line: I am the Weaver. My woof and my warp are lives of people…

Synopsis: The wife of gladiator Gracchus urges him to rebel against Crassius and his outright thievery of the people's money. Gracchus kills Crassius, then flees with Ledra to her uncle's town where they will be safe. Unknown to anyone, on August 24, 79 A.D., that town, Pompeii, was to be destroyed by an eruption of a volcano.

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Pages: 5