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Issue Details

Issue #75
Published February 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Gill Fox
Notes Vincent Palooza's birth year given as 1907 on tombstone

Cover Details

Genre humor
Pencils Gill Fox
Inks Gill Fox
Notes Vincent Palooza's birth year given as 1907 on tombstone

13 page Doll Man story "The Girl You Couldn't Trust"

Characters Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Maude Van Austin (first appearance); Bill Van Austin (first appearance); Jeff Gordon (first appearance); Pacardo (first appearance; villain); Yutz and his gang (first appearance; villains)
Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Kotzky
Inks John Cassone

2 page Big Top story

Genre Humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

4 page Mickey Finn story

Genre sitcom
Script Lank Leonard
Pencils Lank Leonard
Inks Lank Leonard
Notes strip reprints

7 page Rusty Ryan story "Enemy That Is Neither Beast Nor Man"

Characters Rusty Ryan; Alababa; Pierpont Lee; The Missing Link (first appearance; villain; death); Captain Devlin (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre spy; adventure; children
Pencils Ed Dobrotka
Inks Ed Dobrotka

3 page Lala Palooza story

Genre humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

6 page Swing Sisson story "The Ghost of the Clover Club"

Characters Swing Sisson; Mason (first appearance; Clover Club owner); Jack Torrence (first appearance; villain; a phony ghost (first appearance; villain)
Genre humor; detective
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

6 page Perky story "Introducing Perky"

Characters Perky (first appearance; origin); Prof. Zomby (first appearance); Prince Feefi (first appearance); Prince Fofum (first appearance); King Lug (first appearance)
Genre fantasy
Script Sid Lazarus
Pencils Sid Lazarus
Inks Sid Lazarus

2 page Perry Scott text story "The Story of a Ship"

Characters Perry Scott
Genre adventure
Script Robert M. Hyatt?
Letters typeset

1 page Poison Ivy story "War Souvenir"

Characters Poison Ivy
Genre humor
Script Gill Fox
Pencils Gill Fox
Inks Gill Fox

5 page Spin Shaw story "Submarine Assignment"

Characters Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Lt. Bill Perry (first appearance); The Japanese (villains)
Genre aviation

7 page Blimpy story "The Case of the Museum Crooks"

Characters Blimpy; Nervous Harry (first appearance; villain)
Genre humor
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta