Scoop Comics (1941) comic books
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Issue #1
Published Nov 1941 by Harry A. Chesler.- Paper: Off white to white
- Very Minor Amount of Glue on Cover.
- Label #0247162001
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Cover by Charles Sultan. Stories and art by Al Plastino, Bill Madden and Fred Schwab. A catch-all anthology from Chesler / Dynamic, featuring adventure, superheroes and comedy. A strange force gives playboy Ray Cardell X-ray vision and powerful eyebeams, which he uses to battle crime as Master Key. Rocketman invents the helicopter a few years early, but gangster Killer Craci wants the invention for himself. Heroic witch Mother Hubbard uses her magic when enemy agents target the inventors of a new "flame gun." Mother Hubbard was listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Master Key; Rocketman; Professor McScrewy: Zoo's Who?; Mother Hubbard; Scoop Daily; Lonesome Luke; Globe Trotter; Jack Potts; Dan Hastings; Interesting Facts About The Age of Animals; Inspector Pratt; Master Key; Corporal Grant. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #3
Published Mar 1942 by Harry A. Chesler.- Paper: Light tan to off white
- Label #4313682001
- Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
Stories and art by George Tuska, Ken Battefield, Ernie Hart, Charles Sultan, Richard Speed, Bill Madden and Art Pinajian. A catch-all anthology from Chesler / Dynamic, featuring adventure, superheroes and comedy. Rocketman investigates after an atomic scientist is murdered and his daughter is kidnapped. Rocket Boy takes his flying suit to Africa to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance, but first he must find a lost diamond mine and battle a lion. In a macabre, unusual story, heroic witch Mother Hubbard battles a band of ogres that are stealing children's eyes; if she beats them, she can magically restore the eyes. Mother Hubbard was listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Fun cover by an unknown artist. Master Key; Rocketman; Plenty of Noise for a Penny; Mother Hubbard; Scoop Daily: Sacrifice; Rocketboy; Globe Trotter; Dan Hastings: The Return of Dr. Strange; Corporal Grant. Title changes to Yankee Comics (1941 Armed Service Edition) for issues #4-7. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
