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Issue: Captain Midnight #7 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1943
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Issues: #7 of 67 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFawcett
Brand: A Fawcett PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fawcett Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/12/1943
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 16 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ralph Daigh (editorial director); Al Allard (art director)
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Volume 38, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number 578477.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Extra! Extra! Captain Midnight Foils Invasion!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]
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Pages: 1
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Fun - Sport - Thrills - Games

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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

Ad for the book "Fun for Boys" by the Knickerbocker Publishing, Company.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Wilford Hamilton Fawcett [as W. H. Fawcett, Jr.]
Penciller(s): ? (vignettes)
Inker(s): ? (vignettes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Albright]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; The Clinger [Herr Suksenshusenmitz]
First Line: Captain Midnight Raps the Japs and Stuns the Huns
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Disclose Notes: Table of contents with illustrations and a listing of the Editorial Advisory Board. Indicia at bottom of the page.

Editorial Advisory Board listed as: Eleanor B. Roosevelt (listed as past President of the Girl Scouts Council of Greater New York [and at the time, First Lady of the United States, but not noted]); Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (listed as "noted explorer, aviator, and author"); Allan Roy Dafoe, M.D. (listed as "the famous quintuplet doctor"); and Reverend John W. Tynan, S.J. (Father Tynan is listed as a member Fordham University faculty).

Fawcett staff listed as: Wilford Hamilton Fawcett [as W. H. Fawcett, Jr.](president); Roger K. Fawcett (vice-president); Allen E. Norman (secretary); Gordon Fawcett (treasurer); Eliott D. Odell (advertising director); Roscoe K. Fawcett (circulation director); Ralph Daigh (editorial director); and Al Allard (art director).

Subscription rate, 12 issues for 1.00 USD in the U.S. and its possessions. Published monthly at 8 Lord Street, Buffalo, New York, by arrangement with the Wander Company of Chicago, Illinois. Editorial and advertising offices located at 1501 Broadway, New York, New York. Other advertising offices: Chicago, Illinois, 360 North Michigan Avenue; Los Angeles, California, Simpson-Reilly, Garfield Building; San Francisco, California, Simpson-Reilly, 1014 Russ Building. General offices located in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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The Flying Guinea Pig!

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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11]; Joyce Ryan; Ichabod Mudd; Baron Von Togo (villain, death?); General Hirogati (villain)
Synopsis: Captain Midnight flies to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific to get an intact Japanese Zero for testing. Baron Von Togo learns of his plans and sets a trap by allowing a special radio-controlled Zero to be captured.
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Disclose Notes: Captain Albright's testing facility is in Nevada.
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A Special Treat Throughout the Whole Year!

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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): Marc Swayze
Inker(s): Marc Swayze
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mary Marvel
Character(s): Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]
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Disclose Notes: Promo for Mary Marvel becoming a regular feature in Wow Comics.

Mary Marvel figure used in this promotional advertisement is taken from the cover of Wow Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #9 [January 6, 1943].
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Doomed Wings

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Joseph J. Millard (credited)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Red Skye
Character(s): Red Skye; The Baron (villain)
Synopsis: Red Skye flies a Corsair catapulted from an disguised English merchant ship to protect a convoy from The Baron and his planes.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Don't Miss Captain Midnight on the Radio!

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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Drawing of Captain Midnight, with a list of cities and radio stations carrying his radio program.
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The Strange Secret of the Invisible Plane!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd; S. S. Yardarm (shipyard owner); Hitshoo (Japanese spy, villain); Japanese spies (villains); Japanese sailors (villains)
Synopsis: Captain Albright invents a special paint that turns invisible under strong light. Japanese spies steal a model coated with the special paint.
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Pages: 10.67
Disclose Notes: Title in the table of contents is "The Plane No Man Could See!"
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[untitled]

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Character(s): Emperor Hirohito
First Line: Hirohito's Looking Mighty Glum...
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Advertisement promoting the sale of war bonds and stamps.
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The Spy of the Spanish Main!

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Albright]; Chuck Ramsey; Schlager [as Major Everett] (villain); unnamed U.S. Naval personnel; Nazis soldiers (villains); local native; U.S. pilots
Synopsis: Nazis plant bombs on cargo planes to stop Allied supplies for the North African campaign.
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Pages: 10
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Oh, No? Don't You Believe There's a Captain Marvel Bunny?

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero, western
Character(s): Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Billy the Kid; Paint (a horse)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for "Funny Animals" comic, with two panels featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny.
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The "Good" Gremlin

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Little Sneezer
Character(s): Little Sneezer; Adolf Hitler; Herr Stoopidpuss; Gremlins
Synopsis: Little Sneezer is ferrying a plane across the Atlantic, when it is attacked by a battalion of gremlins. Sneezer is helped by a "good" gremlin and fights off the other gremlins with one of his sneezes.
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Cadaverous Clinger!

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Midnight
Character(s): Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11]; Joyce Ryan; The Clinger [Herr Suksenshusenmitz] (villain, death?); Herr Fowlballe (villain, death?); Colonel Will Charles ? (Colonel is unnamed); German soldiers, U.S. soldiers
Synopsis: A costumed German spy has special gloves and shoes equipped with suction cups so he can climb walls. He and his gang of spies try to steal a bomb formula Captain Albright has invented so they can use it to cause a volcano to erupt.
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Calling All He-Men!

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Feature(s): Don Winslow of the Navy
Character(s): Don Winslow
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Promo for "Don Winslow of the Navy" comics.
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Amazing Offer to Comic Readers

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Advertisement for "Webster's Complete Reference Dictionary and Encyclopedia." Sold by Caxton House, Incorporated.
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Free With This Offer 33 Power Telescope Lens Kit

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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Ad for the "Wonders of Science, Simplified" book by Metro Publications.

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