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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published August 1943
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Charles Quinlan ?

Cover Details - "The Strange Case of the Orang-A-Tang Murders"

Genre superhero

8 page Ali Baba story "Time Machine"

Characters Ali Baba; Muhrad; Swami Salami
Synopsis Swami Salami invents a time machine and gets Ali Baba and Muhrad to test it, but he discovers he doesn't much like the 20th century.
Genre fantasy; humor
Pencils Ray Wilner ?
Inks Al Ulmer ?

8 page Blue Beetle story "Babbo, the Babbling Beast"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Doc Schneider; Babbo
Synopsis Garrett is now a secret service man stationed in England. Doc Schneider finds a giant tame Oran-a-tang in Africa and brings him back to England where he uses him to commit crimes and to steal government papers and slip them to the Nazis.
Genre superhero
Notes Orangatans are not native to Africa. They come from the far East.

1 page Sillystrations story

Genre gags
Script George Tukel
Pencils George Tukel (Signed)
Inks George Tukel
Letters George Tukel

4 page G-Men of the Radio story "G-Men of the Radio War"

Genre war
Pencils George Tukel ?
Inks George Tukel ?

2 page text story "Live Lions"

Letters Typeset

5 page Crime Reporter story "Tony Zacco"

Genre crime

3 page A True Story story "Jane G. Plant"

Characters Jane G. Plant
Genre biography
Pencils George Tukel (signed)
Inks George Tukel
Notes True Story

1 page Just Kiddin' story

Genre humor
Script Mel Lazarus
Pencils Mel Lazarus (signed)
Inks Mel Lazarus
Letters Mell Lazarus

8 page Blue Beetle story "The Leering Lantern"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Mike Mannigan; Jerry; Joan Mason
Synopsis Joan and Mike investigate a haunted house that turns out to be a Nazi spy nest. Fortunately secret service man Dan Garrett is on vacation back in his home town.
Genre superhero
Script Charles Quinlan
Pencils Charles Quinlan (Signed)
Inks Charles Quinlan

4 page Tales of A Warplant Guard story "Case of the Fainting Saboteur"

Genre war; spy

3 page G-Men of the Radio story "G-Men of the Radio"

Genre war; spy
Pencils George Tukel (signed)
Inks George Tukel

1 page Ship Bob story

Genre military humor
Script Mel Lazarus
Pencils Mel Lazarus (signed)
Inks Mel Lazarus
Letters Mell Lazarus

4 page G-Men of the Radio story G-Men and "Hams"

Genre spy; war
Pencils George Tukel (signed)
Inks George Tukel

9 page Bishop story "The Bishop and the Halo"

Characters The Bishop [the Halo]; Baron Schlang
Synopsis The Bishop fights Nazis as a masked man in a blue suit.
Genre superhero
Pencils George Tukel (signed)
Inks George Tukel