Issue: #17
Published: December 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ed Cronin
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
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Comic Story (4 pages) |
Chic Carter and the Story of the Mole |
Featuring: |
Chic Carter |
Credits: |
Script: Vernon Henkel | Pencils: Vernon Henkel | Inks: Vernon Henkel |
Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
Characters: |
Chic Carter Monahan The Mole |
Comic Story (2 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Archie O'Toole |
Credits: |
Script: George Tuska ? [as Bud Thomas] | Pencils: George Tuska ? [as Bud Thomas] | Inks: George Tuska ? [as Bud Thomas] |
Genre: |
Humor Children |
Characters: |
Archie O'Toole Ludbah |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Espionage Starring Black X |
Credits: |
Script: Will Eisner [as Will Erwin] (signed) | Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich | Inks: Dan Zolnerowich |
Genre: |
Spy |
Characters: |
Espionage [Black X] Colonel Atwater |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
Barbaria Shall Strike |
Featuring: |
Wings Wendall |
Credits: |
Script: Vernon Henkel | Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) | Inks: Vernon Henkel |
Genre: |
Aviation |
Characters: |
Wings Wendall Listra Warak |
Text Story (2 pages) |
The God Mask |
Featuring: |
Jimmy Christian |
Credits: |
Script: Robert M. Hyatt | Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Jimmy Christian |
Comic Story (2 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Wun Cloo, The Defective Detective |
Synopsis: |
Professor Grrr, despondent over Wun Cloo's messing up five murders that he had planned, attempts to kill the detective. Escaping the attempts, Wun Cloo drinks down some Super Putty Juice that makes his body plastic in nature, portrays the Professor's conscience, and convinces the villain to turn himself in. |
Credits: |
Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole |
Genre: |
Humor Detective-mystery |
Characters: |
Wun Cloo [also As Professor Grrr's Conscience] Unnamed Policeman Professor Grrr (villain) |
Comic Story (4 pages) |
The Medici Candle |
Featuring: |
Abdul the Arab |
Credits: |
Script: Bob Powell | Pencils: Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts] | Inks: Bob Powell |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Abdul Hassan Achmed Bey |
Cartoon (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Kidding the Kids |
Credits: |
Script: Arthur Beeman (signed) | Pencils: Arthur Beeman (signed) | Inks: Arthur Beeman (signed) |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Wizard |
Featuring: |
Bozo the Robot |
Credits: |
Script: George Brenner | Pencils: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] | Inks: George Brenner |
Genre: |
Science Fiction |
Characters: |
Hugh Hazzard The Wizard |
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