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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Penciller(s): Jack Binder

Inker(s): Jack Binder

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Feature(s): Yank and Doodle

Character(s): America's Fighting Twins [Yank; Doodle]

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Pages: 1

Case of the Crooked Clown!

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Paul Norris (signed)

Penciller(s): Paul Norris (signed)

Inker(s): Paul Norris (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Yank and Doodle, America's Fighting Twins

Character(s): Yank and Doodle [Yank [Dick Walters]; Doodle [Rick Walters]]; Uncle Bob Walters; prison warden; Charley (U.S. Assay Office worker, introduction); Funnibone (villain, introduction); Rudolf Schmidt [aka Roger Smith] (villain, Gestapo agent)

Synopsis: Funnibone helps Roger Smith from being electrocuted in the chair and Smith agrees to aid the criminal in his pursuits of destroying democracy in America if Funnibone agrees to seek out and destroy the duo that put him in the chair to begin with: Yank and Doodle. Funnibone agrees, but pulls a double-cross on Smith, or so it seems.

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Reprint Notes: in Men of Mystery (AC, 1999 series) #112 (2019) in black and white

Miscellaneous

Pages: 13

Notes: Script credit by Craig Delich, courtesy of the Who's Who, which lists Norris as the scripter through 1942 (no scripters listed after 1942).

The Commandos Are Coming

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ken Battefield?

Inker(s): Ken Battefield?

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Ted O'Neil

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Pages: 8

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth

Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doctor Frost

Character(s): Dr. Frost; Prof. Grubman (first appearance, villain)

First Line: Has the Doctor fallen victim to the mysterious strangling power of the Oriental belt?

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Pages: 6

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Ken Crossen

Penciller(s): Jack Binder

Inker(s): Jack Binder

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

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, it launched the Green Lama...

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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Reprint Notes: in Men of Mystery (AC, 1999 series) #110 (2018) (in black and white)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7.67

Notes: The last 1/3 of page 8 is an illustrated ad for Cowboy Movie Thrillers.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Dick Briefer

Penciller(s): Dick Briefer

Inker(s): Dick Briefer

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Subject Matter

Feature(s): Frankenstein

Character(s): Frankenstein; Dr. Ullrich (obscure student of anatomy, first appearance, death); Mrs. Frankenstein (first appearance, a female monster, death)

First Line: Herein is the tale of Dr. Ullrich -- who, through circumstances, came across the notes and memoirs of the creator...

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Pages: 8

Notes: Dr. Ullrich has found Victor Frankenstein's original notes and creates a Bride for the monster

Horse Laugh

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Ken Browne

Penciller(s): Ken Browne

Inker(s): Ken Browne

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The General and the Corporal

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Pages: 2

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Feature(s): Buck Sanders and his Pals

Character(s): Buck Sanders (curious boy); Mr. Scrooge (first appearance); Nazi fifth-columnists

First Line: Into the sleepy town of Olinville, on the Mississippi, creeps a defense plant, then two defense plants...

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Pages: 8

Notes: Art was previously attributed to Munson Paddock, but the art is distinctly different from the Buck Saunders art in Headline Comics #13-18 (1945-1946), which more closely resembles Paddock’s general style, such as his use of big eyes, long noses, and starry visuals for energetic movement.

Hands Across the Ocean

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Crest Wood

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jack Binder

Inker(s): Jack Binder

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Black Owl

Character(s): The Black Owl [Doug Danville]; The Laughing Head (first appearance, villain)

First Line: Why will an honest policeman commit perjury? What sinister forces can twist the tongues of men...

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Pages: 9