Digital Comic Museum - Green Mask v2 003


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Volume: #2, Issue: #3 [14]
Published: Fall 1945, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Victor Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: 7 1/2" X 10 1/4" (pre-War); 7 1/4"? X 10 1/4"? (post-War) Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Green Mask
Credits:	Pencils: E. C. Stoner ? \| Inks: E. C. Stoner ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Green Mask

Comic Story (10 pages)	Wandering Gold Brick
Featuring:	Green Mask
Synopsis:	Teary and his gang substitute a painted and re-shaped gold brick for the iron head of lumberjack Pierre's axe, planning to recover it after he returns to Canada. Johnny turns into the Green Mask when the crooks attack, but doesn't notice the substitution. Pierre is lured back home by a fake telegram from his girlfriend Marie. However, the Green Mask goes to Canada, saves Pierre, and returns Teary and his mob (and the gold) to the USA.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jack Fiske]
Genre:	Crime Superhero
Characters:	Green Mask Teary Jowls Pierre Johnny Green Marbles Sheila Marie

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Real Dream Adventure
Featuring:	Green Mask
Synopsis:	Johnny tries to emulate the Green Mask but his attempts at heroism fail. Meanwhile, his friends Suzie and Skinny are riding in an armoured car carrying charity donations. The vehicle plunges into a river and Johnny turns into the Green Mask to save them. However, he is also captured by the crooks in a submarine and taken to a hidden base with the two teens. The Green Mask saves Suzie and Skinny and captures the criminals.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jack Fiske]
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Green Mask;Johnny Green Skinny Suzie;

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Dick Transom
Synopsis:	Failing private eye Dick's wife orders him to get back his old job with the police force. Dick is assigned to the "graveyard shift." He visits the city graveyard and the gravedigger gives him a "fake" diamond he purchased the day before. Dick discovers the gem is real, but when he goes back to see the gravedigger, the real crook Sparrow is there looking for the "Pope" diamond. Dick and the police arrest the crook and Dick gets a reward, so he doesn't have to resume his police job.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Hap Harris] \| Pencils: Al Zere \| Inks: Al Zere
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Dick Transom Mrs. Transom Commissioner Mulcahey Pop Mack Casey Sparrow

Text Story (2 pages)	Code of the North
Credits:	Script: Glen Cary \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	Joy Family
Synopsis:	Judy Joy is bored so she invites the Blakes over to play bridge. Her husband Cuthbert agrees to let his friends play poker in the attic and he and Mr. Blake join the game. Cuthbert loses and the game is raided by the police. Cuthbert and Judy go to bed but Mr. Blake--who was the big winner in the poker game--invites them to go nightclubbing and Judy makes her husband accompany her.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Hal George] \| Pencils: Al Zere \| Inks: Al Zere
Genre:	Humor Domestic
Characters:	Cuthbert Joy Judy Joy Mr. Blake Mrs. Blake Pinky Joy Mrs. Glibb

Comic Story (6 pages)	Treasure On the Doorstep
Featuring:	Rick Evans
Synopsis:	Rick's sidekick Stringbean wants to win $50,000 for the best scientific discovery but repeatedly fails. Rick, Stringbean and Astra's spaceship is caught in a tornado and they wind up in a prehistoric land. The cave people try to sacrifice the intruders to a dinosaur, but Stringbean tames the monster with peanuts. They try to take the dinosaur home to win the prize but it falls off the ship during flight. One of Stringbean's earlier experiments would have paid off handsomely, except he can't remember the formula he used.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Stan Ford] \| Pencils: Lou Ferstadt [as F] (signed) \| Inks: Lou Ferstadt [as F] (signed)
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Rick Evans Stringbean Astra;

Comic Story (6 pages)
Featuring:	One Round Hogan
Synopsis:	Hogan is arrested when his defeated opponent, the Missouri Mauler, is hospitalised with mysterious injuries after their bout. Hogan's manager Spigot thinks the Mauler's manager Bags is having his man fake his injuries so Hogan can't train for his next fight. Newspaper reporter Savery tells Spigot where to find the Mauler's mother. She is summoned to the hospital and brings a basket of her son's favourite food: he "recovers" and Hogan is released from jail and defeats Biff Ralston to retain his title.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Jo Logan] \| Pencils: Al Zere \| Inks: Al Zere
Genre:	Sports
Characters:	One Round Hogan Blimp Missouri Mauler [Tom Armstrong] Spigot Barnett Bags Bolger Savery Pat Biff Ralston

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Hacksaw the Great Detective
Synopsis:	Hacksaw adds up the clues and vows to capture the culprit: a mouse in his home.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Chris Flag]
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Hacksaw Pottson

Advertisement (1 page)
Synopsis:	Advertisement for Mechanix Illustrated magazine.
Characters:	Captain Marvel Marvel Bunny Captain Marvel Jr.

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