Issue: #17
Published: December 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Lev Gleason
Color: Full Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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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| Text Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Laffs |
| Credits: |
Script: D. B. Icove | Pencils: D. B. Icove | Inks: D. B. Icove | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Duke of Pyewk |
| Featuring: |
The Pirate Prince |
| Synopsis: |
The Pirate Prince drops anchor and a party goes ashore to get tree trunks to replace a broken spar. They are attacked by a group of violent natives, but are saved by a large gorilla, who is taken aboard and named Bombo. Some time later, Prince visits Lady Marie, only to find she is betrothed to the Duke of Pyewk. Prince saves Marie and substitutes Bombo in her wedding dress and face-covering veil. At the wedding ceremony Pyewk lifts the veil to kiss the bride and gets the shock of his life. |
| Genre: |
Adventure Historical |
| Characters: |
The Pirate Prince Lady Marie The Duke Of Pyewk |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Moving Idol |
| Featuring: |
Cloud Curtis |
| Synopsis: |
The Golden Bullet fails to respond to Cloud's piloting and crash lands in the South American jungle. Traveling on foot, Cloud encounter crocodiles, pythons and other jungle dangers, but eventually comes to a clearing, where there is large idol of Ratzinatzi, the demon god of the ancient Incas. Before his eyes the statue moves backwards. |
| Credits: |
Script: Carl Formes ? |
| Genre: |
Adventure Jungle |
| Characters: |
Cloud Curtis |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Sea of Death |
| Featuring: |
The Bingham Boys |
| Synopsis: |
Bobby, Billy, Dusty and Specs are traveling home on board of a liner, when through a porthole Count Buloe spots Dusty with the fabled sword of Genghis Khan. Billy and Bobby thwart his plans to steal it. His henchmen approach in a small craft and Dusty makes the count gesture for them to approach, at which point they are captured. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Bobby Bingham Billy Bingham Dusty Travis Specs Count Buloe |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Men On Patrol |
| Genre: |
Humor Military |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Reign of Death |
| Featuring: |
Silver Streak & Meteor |
| Synopsis: |
Silver Streak and Meteor respond to a report telling of Nazis overrunning a South American nation. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Silver Streak Meteor |
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