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Issue Details

Issue #v1#3
Published September 1945
Cover Price $0.10 CA
Pages 52
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Cover Details - "The Weekender"

Genre Adventure; Super Hero
Pencils Thomson (signed)
Inks Thomson (signed)

1 page advertisement

Synopsis inside front cover ad for book Learn Lighting Ju Jitsu.
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Notes indicia states The Weekender Vol. 1 #3. Published bi-monthly by Rucker Publications Ltd. Toronto. Printed by the Globe Printing Company

2 page Illustrated News photo story

Synopsis 2 pages of b/w photographs with text
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8 page Mr. E. story

Characters Mr. E
Synopsis Dorrence hangs tonight for double murder.
Genre Superhero
Reprinted from Punch Comics (Dynamic Publications [1940s], 1941 series) #1 (December 1941)

4 page Illustrated News photo story

Synopsis 4 pages of b/w photographs
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1 page text story "Ole Faithful"

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6 page Dan Hastings story

Characters Dan Hastings; Gloria Carter; Bob Carter; Dr. Carter; Max Guddy
Synopsis Man in his never ending search for new conquests has made his world the universe.
Genre Science Fiction

1 page Insurance Ike story

Genre Humor

4 page Illustrated News photo story

Synopsis 3 pages b/w photographs with 1 page text.
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1 page Dan Hastings text story "The Return of Dr. Strange"

Synopsis 1 page text story
Genre Science Fiction
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7 page The Sky Chief story

Characters Sky Chief
Synopsis The Sky Chief secret aerial operative for the G-Men smashes through a ring of saboteurs to stop the mysterious destruction of American clipper planes.
Genre Superhero
Reprinted from Punch Comics (Dynamic Publications [1940s], 1941 series) #1 (December 1941)

4 page Illustrated News photo story

Synopsis 3 pages of b/w photographs and 1 page text
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1 page text story "Music Soothes the Savage Beast"

Synopsis one page text story with illo
Genre Adventure
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6 page The Echo story

Characters The Echo
Synopsis Who was the mad monster that prowled the park after midnight? The Echo sought the grisly answer altho he knew he would need a more deadly strategy than his amazing power of ventriloquism.
Genre Adventure
Reprinted from Dynamic Comics (Dynamic Publications [1940s], 1941 series) #12 (November 1944)

1 page text story "Midnight Present"

Characters Major Victory
Synopsis Cover story?
Genre Superhero
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Illustrated News photo story

Synopsis 2 pages of b/w photographs
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1 page advertisement

Synopsis inside back cover ad for books about mystic powers
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1 page (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Synopsis ad for dance instruction books
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