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Issue Details

Issue #83
Published November 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Gill Fox
Notes Correct sequence order, titles, and some character information from Error Report #2882, by Lou Mougin.

Cover Details - "Flesh Against Steel!"

Characters Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Big Top; Mickey Finn; Swing Sisson; Lala Palooza; Spin Shaw; Blimpy; Perky; Rusty Ryan; Poison Ivy
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bryant (signed)
Inks Al Bryant (signed)

13 page Doll Man story "Mechanical Man"

Characters Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; The Mechanical Man (villain, first and only appearance, a robot); Prof. Rudio (villain, first and only appearance)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Bryant ?
Inks Al Bryant ?

2 page Big Top story "Our menagerie needs a shot in the arm..."

Genre Humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

4 page Mickey Finn story "Gee, Tom..."

Genre sitcom
Script Lank Leonard
Pencils Lank Leonard
Inks Lank Leonard
Reprinted from newspaper strips (?)

6 page Swing Sisson story "Clover Club"

Characters Swing Sisson
Genre humor; detective
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

1 page Poison Ivy story "Dat kid Poison Ivy is getting to be a nuisance!"

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

3 page Lala Palooza story "That rich widow has never seen me with my hat off..."

Genre humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble
Reprinted from newspaper strips (?)

5 page Spin Shaw story "Flash! ...U.S. Naval ace faces court-martial..."

Characters Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]
Genre aviation

7 page Blimpy story "It's no dream, folks!"

Genre humor
Script Tony DiPreta
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta

6 page Perky story "Kitchen Boy Wanted"

Characters Perky
Genre fantasy
Script Sid Lazarus
Pencils Sid Lazarus
Inks Sid Lazarus

7 page Rusty Ryan story "There's always something new in the South Seas!"

Characters Rusty Ryan
Genre spy; adventure; children
Pencils Bill Quackenbush
Inks Bill Quackenbush