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Issue: #1
Published: February 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Abner Sundell
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover, Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/).
On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 445574.
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| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Mugsy |
| Credits: |
Script: Kin Platt (signed) | Pencils: Kin Platt (signed) | Inks: Kin Platt (signed) |
| Characters: |
Mugsy (a Dog) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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The Scarlet Avenger, Gang Buster |
| Synopsis: |
Jim Kendall has devoted himself to wiping out gangland since the death of his wife and child while flying in a hijacked plane, which crashed, and in which all were killed except Jim. In the accident, his face muscles were paralyzed and Jim became the man who never smiled. Kendall has a giant scientific brain, and uses that science to the aid of his crusade. |
| Credits: |
Script: Harry Shorten | Pencils: Irv Novick [as Irving M. Novick] (signed) | Inks: Irv Novick [as Irving M. Novick] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Scarlet Avenger [Jim Kendall] (introduction, Origin) Operative No. 12 (introducion) Chief Mike Brady Sledge Hammer (villain, Introduction) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
You Can't Win! |
| Synopsis: |
Executions are likely to be drably gruesome affairs even to the most hardened newspapermen. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed) (2 spot illustrations) | Inks: Mort Meskin [as Meskin] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
William Edward Hickman (murderer) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Eye of Oglu |
| Featuring: |
Mr. Satan |
| Synopsis: |
A young girl's father is missing after a series of weird happenings. She suspects foul play and contacts Dudley for help, who dons a purple costume with yellow cape and ventures out to help as Mr. Satan, international detective and soldier of fortune. |
| Credits: |
Script: Abner Sundell | Pencils: Edd Ashe (signed) | Inks: Edd Ashe (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Mr. Satan [Dudley Bradshaw] (introduction) Mary Doran Mr. Doran Count Bodana (villain, Introduction) |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Sport-o-Grams |
| Featuring: |
Lou Ambers |
| Credits: |
Script: Irwin Hasen [as I Hasen] (signed) | Pencils: Irwin Hasen [as I Hasen] (signed) | Inks: Irwin Hasen [as I Hasen] (signed) |
| Characters: |
Lou Anders (Lightweight Boxing Champion) |
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