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Issue: #53
Published: May 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing: Martin De Muth
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Is There Honor among Thieves?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Dr. Mortimer Wackey Gabby (a Monkey)

Comic Story (11 pages)
Synopsis:	Lady mob boss Darla Dee drops in on Dave to announce her takeover of the city, and when he refuses to lead her to Midnight, she frames him for murder.
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Gabby (a Monkey) Doc Mortimer Wackey Sniffer Snoop Hot-Foot (a Polar Bear) Darla Dee (villain) Sam Doe (villain) Moxie Doe (villain)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Ronnie the Rat
Featuring:	Rookie Rankin
Credits:	Pencils: Mort Leav
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rookie Rankin Ronnie The Rat Black Hand Gang

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery

Comic Story (7 pages)	Daffy's School For the Muscular Development of American Womanhood
Featuring:	Daffy
Credits:	Pencils: Milt Stein? \| Inks: Milt Stein?
Genre:	Humor Sports
Characters:	Daffy Dill Deke Parsons

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Archie O'Toole
Credits:	Pencils: Bernard Dibble \| Inks: Bernard Dibble
Genre:	Humor Children

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	Japanese soldiers stranded in Ecuador capture an American archaeologist.
Genre:	Adventure War
Characters:	Marksman Irma Lee Prof Lee

Comic Story (8 pages)	False Surrender
Featuring:	Espionage Starring Black X
Synopsis:	Black X deals with the difficulties of life in Allied occupied former Axis territories.
Credits:	Pencils: Don Rico (signed) \| Inks: Don Rico (signed)
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Black X Kortis Batu Thezda

Text Story (2 pages)	Death Came on the Wind
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Haunted House Hoax
Featuring:	Lady Luck
Synopsis:	Lady Luck and Peecolo discover a secret passage in a supposedly haunted house, which leads to the discovery of a Japanese spy.
Credits:	Script: Klaus Nordling (signed) \| Pencils: Klaus Nordling (signed) \| Inks: Klaus Nordling (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Lady Luck [Brenda Banks] Peecolo Bruce Banks Jim Jameson Jiggers (villain)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Joke is on the Racketeers!
Synopsis:	The Jester has to deal with a rookie cop who does things by the book.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Jester Quinopolis McGinty John McMurry Spencer Stoneface

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