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Issue: #23
Published: June 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ed Cronin
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was On-Going Series
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. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	The Ray
Credits:	Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Ray [Happy Terrill] Bozo The Robot (inset) Espionage [Black X] (inset) The Jester [Chuck Lane] (inset) Midnight [Dave Clark] (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	The Beetle and the Tongs
Featuring:	The Ray
Synopsis:	To help out during a case involving feuds between rival clans in Chinatown, The Ray gives Bud a "ray ring" that emits a beam to blind people.
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed) \| Inks: Lou Fine [as E. Lectron] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Ray [Happy Terrill] Bud Tom Lum (introduction) The Beetle (villain, Introduction) Long Woo (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Hijacked War Planes
Featuring:	Wings Wendall
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) \| Inks: Vernon Henkel (signed)
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Wings Wendall Spinner General Harrison

Comic Story (1 page)	Boomerang Bullets
Featuring:	Wun Cloo
Credits:	Pencils: Jack Cole \| Inks: Jack Cole \| Letters: Jack Cole
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Wun Cloo (detective)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Hundred Grand Hobo
Featuring:	The Jester
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson \| Inks: Paul Gustavson \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Jester [Chuck Lane] Mulligan Limpy (introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Ghost Town Bandits
Featuring:	The Purple Trio
Credits:	Pencils: Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed) \| Inks: Alex Blum [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	The Purple Trio [Tiny Todd Warren Rocky Hill] Wolf Fang (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Archie O'Toole
Credits:	Script: John Devlin \| Pencils: John Devlin \| Inks: John Devlin
Genre:	Humor Children
Characters:	Princess Itchovitch (intro) Archie Ivan

Comic Story (5 pages)	Enter: Doc Wackey
Featuring:	Midnight
Synopsis:	Midnight faces a foe who administers pills to people that regresses them to infancy, and he is even tricked to ingesting the drug as well. Gabby takes a chance with the antidote, which might kill the subject, but Dave is restored. Then, instead of turning the doctor in, Midnight gives Wackey a chance to reform, working with him and Gabby to better promote his genius.
Credits:	Script: Jack Cole (signed) \| Pencils: Jack Cole (signed) \| Inks: Jack Cole (signed) \| Letters: Jack Cole
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Gabby (a Monkey) Doc Mortimer Wackey (villain, Introduction, Reforms)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Temple of Mars
Featuring:	Espionage Starring Black X
Credits:	Script: Lane French [as Will Erwin] (signed) \| Pencils: Witmer Williams \| Inks: Witmer Williams
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Espionage [Black X] Sandra Sanders (introduction), Luigi Piscato (death) Madam Doom (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Blue Death
Featuring:	Invisible Justice
Synopsis:	Caglio and the Crystal Queen squabble over a mystical and lethal blue gem, which ends when the magician kiils the Queen and later succumbs to an explosion.
Credits:	Pencils: Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed) \| Inks: Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Invisible Hood [Kent Thurston] The Crystal Queen (villain, Death) Caglio (villain, A Magician, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Human Bronzes
Featuring:	The Scarlet Seal
Synopsis:	The Seal takes the law into his own hands to stop a murderous embalmer who is killing young women and posing them as life-like sculptures.
Credits:	Script: Harry Francis Campbell [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed) \| Pencils: Harry Francis Campbell [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed) \| Inks: Harry Francis Campbell [as Duane Byrd Monroe] (signed)
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	The Scarlet Seal [Barry Moore] Captain Tim Moore Bernice Fonda (introduction, Death) Morta (villain, Embalmer, Introduction)

Text Story (2 pages)	Beeskrieg
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Credits:	Script: Robert M. Hyatt? \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Jimmy Christian

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Capture of Princess Bardia
Featuring:	Abdul the Arab
Credits:	Script: Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts] (signed) \| Pencils: Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts] (signed) \| Inks: Bob Powell [as Powell Roberts] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Abdul Hassan Pooch (intro,a Girl), Princess Bardia Kibur (Intro, Dies)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Black Death
Featuring:	Chic Carter
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel \| Inks: Vernon Henkel
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Chic Carter Monahan The Black Death (Intro Holt) Foster (intro, Dies), Worthington (intro, Dies) Dr. Parker

Comic Story (7 pages)	Karl Zoff's Double
Featuring:	Bozo the Robot
Credits:	Script: George Brenner ? \| Pencils: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed) \| Inks: George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed)
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Hugh Hazzard Bozo Karl Zoff Kurtz (Intro For Both) Fox (intro)

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