Issue: #1
Published: February 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photo) | Inks: ? (photo) | Colours: ? (photo) |
| Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword (1 page) |
Fun Thrills Entertainment |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Rusty O'Reilly |
| Synopsis: |
Rusty by mistake gets handed a roll of spy microfilm, intended for Madam Q, who is looking exactly like Rusty. Rusty and Betsy go to the lair of Zandusi claiming to be Madam Q and a new spy recruit. Paratroopers save their lives at the last minute. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Rusty O'Reilly (introduction) Betsy Saunders Madam Q (spy Queen) Zandusi |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Pepsi and Pete |
| Synopsis: |
Pepsi and Pete save the private on kitchen duty by coring twenty boxes of apples with a machine gun. |
| Credits: |
Script: Rube Goldberg (signed) | Pencils: Rube Goldberg (signed) | Inks: Rube Goldberg (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Pepsi Pete An Unnamed Private |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Rita Hayworth reveals ... |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ?; ? (photograph) | Inks: ?; ? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Rita Hayworth |
| Cartoon (2 pages) |
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Party Line |
| Synopsis: |
Six more or less scantily clad young women delivering double entendres about servicemen on the phone. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Charles Saxon [as Chuck Saxon] (signed) | Inks: Charles Saxon [as Chuck Saxon] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor Erotica |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
How the Fighting Giants Won Their Name |
| Synopsis: |
Account of the 38th U.S. Infantry, 3rd Division and their defense of the bank of the Marne in July 1918. |
| Genre: |
War |
| Text Story (3 pages) |
Dear Joe |
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Camp Girl |
| Synopsis: |
"Good" advice to servicemen about how to act in army camp. |
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Pencils: ? (spot illustrations) | Inks: ? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
How to keep peace |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (spot illustration) | Inks: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (11 pages) |
The Sooper Sweeps, or, How To Keep Our City Clean |
| Featuring: |
Hank and Lank |
| Synopsis: |
The gangster chief "Grade A Gorilla" corners all the milk in town so that the babies have none. The protagonists, having gained sooper powers by boiling old superhero comics in a large pot, save the day by making milk fountains, and moreover convincing the gangsters to reform. |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Thomas ? | Pencils: Frank Thomas (signed) | Inks: Frank Thomas (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor Superhero |
| Characters: |
Hank Lank (introduction And Origin For Both) The Spirit Of All Comic Avengers "Grade A Gorilla" The Town's Mayor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
The two soldiers are thumbing a ride, but are picked up only when the not-so-well shaven one hides in the bushes. |
| Characters: |
Two Unnamed Soldiers A Woman Driver |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
$100.00 cash |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (spot illustration) | Inks: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
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