Issue: #22
Published: September 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: George Brenner
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interiors Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1943 by Comic Magazines. The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 4.
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| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Dewey Drip |
| Synopsis: |
Dewey goes home on leave, but Pappy "borrows" his uniform and gets in a brawl with the General. Dewey is blamed. |
| Credits: |
Script: Bernard Dibble ? | Pencils: Bernard Dibble | Inks: Bernard Dibble |
| Genre: |
Humor Military |
| Characters: |
Dewey Drip Ma Drip Pappy Drip General |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Manhunter |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Cassone (signed) | Inks: John Cassone (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Manhunter [Dan Richards] |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
On the Beach |
| Featuring: |
Burp the Twerp, The Super So-An-So... |
| Synopsis: |
Sloozy Slime bets Burp $1 that he can commit a crime in five hours and that Burp cannot solve it. But boastful Burp says he can and makes the bet one zillion dollars and catches Sloozy in the act of killing his own mother. Not wanting Sloozy to lose the bet, Mrs. Slime suggests a place where Sloozy can peacefully kill her, which he does. Burp solves the crime......but is so tender-hearted, that he doesn't arrest Sloozy or take the money. |
| Credits: |
Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole | Letters: Jack Cole |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Burp The Twerp Mrs. Slime (Sloozy's Mother, Death) Three Crooks [Sloozy Slime Others Unnamed] (villains) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Destiny |
| Synopsis: |
Destiny is twice transported to Death Valley, where he finds himself amid the discovery of a hidden treasure. During a fight with one of the thieves, Destiny forces the gun towards his quarry's own face, and the villain is shot in the mouth. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Keller ? | Inks: Jack Keller ? |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery Superhero |
| Characters: |
Destiny |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Curtain of Death |
| Featuring: |
Dick Mace |
| Credits: |
Script: Robert Hyatt ? | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Dick Mace |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Super Snooper |
| Credits: |
Script: Gill Fox | Pencils: Gill Fox | Inks: Gill Fox | Letters: Gill Fox ? |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Termite of Terror |
| Featuring: |
Flatfoot Burns |
| Credits: |
Script: Al Stahl | Pencils: Al Stahl | Inks: Al Stahl |
| Genre: |
Humor Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Flatfoot Burns |
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