Issue: #4
Published: July 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indexed from a copy with "3/3/44" written in pencil on back cover, presumably an on-sale date.
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| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Comics settles in to read some comics when his sister brings home her new beau, Corporal Tom Manley. In his dreams, Comics quickly recognizes him as Captain Catapult and, together, they capture all the mob bosses in town and take them to the police. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Comics McCormick Captain Catapult [Tom Manley] |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Way of a Rogue |
| Credits: |
Letters: Typeset |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
Melvin Blake |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Juggernaut gets a job at the Dorgan Mill, and then is fired when the guy who runs the mill suspects he might know something about the plan to wreck a train. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Juggernaut Gwen Barnes Roy Lacy |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Phantom Bridegroom |
| Synopsis: |
Joe Matthews is killed the day before he is supposed to marry Dorothy Hamilton. She goes to a mental asylum, insisting that Joe keeps calling her. |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Dorothy Hamilton Joe Matthews |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Lucille Traymore is crowned Miss America and as soon as the crown is placed on her head, she dies. Buck and Broncho solve the murder thanks to Rajah, their monkey, taking film footage of the murderer disposing of the murder weapon... the crown! |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Buck Jordan Broncho Boyd Rajah Lucille Traymore |
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