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Issue: Top Notch Comics #21 Public Domain
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Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/15/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy
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The Animal Man Strikes

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The Animal Man (villain, introduction, death); Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Frank Thomas; Bonga (gorilla); Barbara Sutton; David Crane; Tanto (elephant); Sgt. McGinty
Grrrr!
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The Voodoo Murders

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occult, superhero
Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy; Jane; Dr. Strong (villain, intro, death); Dr. Strong's gang (villains, intro)
Woodo murders Professor Lang, noted explorer.
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Miscellaneous
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Originally credited to Al Camy, but this is not him. Compare the gaping square faces in his signed Black Hood story. More probably by King, when looking at all the tilted heads and the slender girl.
The Two New Harem Additions

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Subject Matter
espionage
Fran Frazer (photographer); Hal Davis (reporter); Von Berg (villain); Arab chieftain (villain, intro)
Fran and Hal find themself in a harem in Arabia.
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Miscellaneous
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Originally credited to Irv Novick, but the movements of the figures are too stiff and clumsy, and none of his faces are found here. This unknown artist with narrow pointed ears and vey long fingers, are found in several other stories, like Zambini and Fran Frazer.
The Glider Incident

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Col. Crawford (Intro)
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The Return of the Dervish

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Whirling Dervish (villain, death); Rico Lopez (villain, intro, death); Lucille Forbes [Tallon] (guest star)
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Lou Morelli Muscles Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
sports
Lou Morelli (villain); St. Louis Kid; Mary; Windy Mills
Here's where you get yours for double-crossing Morelli, wise guy!
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Montana signed on splash panel
The Remote-Controlled Armada

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war
Nazis (villain); Wings Johnson; Henry Higgins; Marty Blakeman; Marshall Von Kittle
Wings Johnson, with Henry Higgins, an observer and Marty Blakeman as rear gunner, lead a squadron...
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The Murder of Carmen Yolanda

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superhero
Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]; Jinx Friday (secretary); Beecher [Little Bear Beecher] (villain, intro); Carmen Yolanda (intro, death); Wallace McLaglen (intro)
A movie star is killed on a cruise ship.
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Miscellaneous
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Originally credited to Bernard Klein. None of his angry eyed faces in side view are present. More probably King, with his heads and figures popping up along the panel borders.
Battle Boy's Big Race

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superhero
Mr. Lindsay (introduction); Joan Lindsay (introduction); Kardak; Balthar
Boy, that's speed!
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Miscellaneous
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