Volume: #2, Issue: #8
Published: August 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Joe Hardie
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 3. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 427060.
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword (1 page) |
"Uncle Joe Says": |
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Script: Joe Hardie | Letters: typeset |
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Speed Centaur The Masked Marvel |
Comic Story (9 pages) |
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Speed Centaur |
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After an earthquake in a chain of uncrossed mountains occurs, destroying a city in the process, a lone trapper, checking his traps, comes across a youthful centaur, whom he takes back to his cabin. He learns the centaur is the sole survivor of the City of Centaurs, destroyed in the earthquake and so takes on the responsibility of raising the centaur and encouraging him to fight crime, which he does, teaming up with a reporter. |
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Superhero |
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Speed Centaur (introduction, Origin) Norton (a Trapper, Death) Reel McCoy (newspaper Reporter) Police Officer Quinn "Killer" Diller (villain) Diller's Gang (villains) |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Do You Know? |
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Letters: typeset |
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Non-fiction |
Text Story (2 pages) |
Counter-Spy |
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Mat and his buddy were discussing Harry Rustleman, a classmate of theirs who had been court-martialed for possibly being a spy, served time in prison, then released. Neither of them believed Harry guilty, even though incriminating evidence had been found in his apartment. Soon, the latest newspaper revealed the truth, making them that Rustleman had been used by Naval Intelligence to pass off fraudulent plans to the enemy. |
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Script: Lloyd Jaquet [as Lloyd Dyoll] (credited) | Letters: typeset |
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Spy |
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Mat Reilly (Annapolis Officer) Reilly's Un-named Annapolis Classmate Harry Rustleman (Annapolis Officer, Court-martialed) |
Comic Story (7 pages) |
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Jack Strand |
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Now in Psyk's power, Jack comes across a man supposedly dead: Diana's late father's former Secretary, Peter Smith, wsho had drowned, but was being kept alive by Psyk's control of his subconscious. He asks Jack to kill him in order to be released from Psyk's power, but it's actually a ploy to steal Jack's ray contained in the stone in his lapel pin. Meanwhile, Psyk is sending Diana back to the United States to transfer Psyk's will to the President and other officials. Jack stops the attempt, but is arrested for the murder of Peter Smith, who accompanies Diana. |
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Adventure |
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Jack Strand Diana Carlin Peter Smith (villain, Dr. Carlin's Former Secretary, Death) Psyk (villain) |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Homing Instincts |
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Non-fiction |
Advertisement (1 page) |
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Letters: typeset |
Advertisement (1 page) |
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Letters: typeset |
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