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Issue Details

Issue #42
Published April 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing George Brenner

Cover Details - "Whoever Dares Solve This Murder Will Die Before Morning!"

Characters Midnight; Hot Foot; Gabby
Genre adventure
Pencils Alex Kotzky?
Inks Alex Kotzky?

11 page Midnight story "Sniffer Snoop"

Characters Midnight; Gabby; Doc Wackey; Sniffer Snoop (intro); Hot Foot (intro)
Synopsis Sniffer Snoop and Hot Foot show up uninvited becasue Sniffer thinks Midnight is smart enough to be his assistant. But Doc can't stand him and plots to get rid of him.
Genre superhero; adventure
Pencils Alex Kotzky?
Inks Alex Kotzky?

4 page Lady Luck story "The Kidnapping of Brenda Banks"

Characters Lady Kuck; Count DeChange; Mr. Fatning
Synopsis from a Spirit section
Genre superhero
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

8 page Espionage Starring Black X story "Dead Pigeons Tell No Tales"

Characters Batu; Black X; General Strickland; Col. Winton
Genre spy
Pencils Don Rico?
Inks Don Rico?

1 page Archie O'Toole story "one small, silly animal ain't enough to run a royal zoo"

Genre humor; kid
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

7 page The Marksman story "Here Lies the Marksman"

Characters Marksman (Major Hurtz); Vorka; Major Grummel
Genre Superhero

8 page Rookie Rankin story "The Daring Carnival Murderer"

Characters Rookie Rankin; Sam Seift; the Tattooed Man;
Genre detective

8 page Yankee Eagle story "The Khan"

Characters Larry Noble; The Khan
Genre adventure
Pencils Al Gabriele (signed)
Inks Al Gabriele

2 page Jimmy Christian text story "Madagascar Interlude"

Genre adventure
Letters typeset
Notes text story

1 page Wun Cloo story

Genre humor; detective

5 page Daffy and Deke story "Dr. Smatt's Reducing Machine"

Characters Daffy Dill; Deke Parsons
Genre humor; wrestling
Script Gill Fox ?
Pencils Gill Fox ?
Inks Gill Fox ?

7 page The Jester story "Lady Satan"

Characters Lady Satan; Jester; Hustace McGinty
Genre superhero
Pencils Paul Gustavson?
Inks Paul Gustavson?