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Issue Details

Issue #85
Published October 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Nancy Smith

Cover Details - "Singing Swindle"

Characters Midnight; Peggy Sweet; Percentage Graftly
Genre superhero; adventure
Pencils Jack Cole (signed)
Inks Jack Cole (signed)

11 page Midnight story "Singing Swindle"

Characters Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Sniffer Snoop; Hotfoot; Percentage Graftly; Peggy Sweet; Esmereldy; Jeb Rukes; Lum Cornfield
Synopsis Midnight and the gang take on an unscrupulous agent. So Percentage Graftly gets a new client to prove he can make a star out of anybody.
Genre superhero; adventure
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Notes title from cover

6 page Black X story "The False Masterpiece"

Characters Black X; Batu; Beef Burton; Mr. Harrow
Genre spy
Pencils Dan Zolnerowich ?
Inks Dan Zolnerowich ?

4 page Lady Luck story "The Talent Scouts"

Characters Lady Luck; Count DiChange; Colonel Snath
Genre superhero
Pencils Klaus Nordling (signed)
Inks Klaus Nordling
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #?

1 page Midnight text story "Midnight's Merry Men"

Genre superhero; adventure
Letters typeset

6 page Jester, The story "Robbery at the Opera"

Characters Jester; McGinty; Keith Brewster; Lindsey; Lady Kimberly
Genre superhero
Pencils Sam Citron ?
Inks Sam Citron ?

5 page Daffy story "Manuelo de Vega y Bolona"

Characters Daffy; Deke; Manuelo de Vega y Bolona
Genre humor; wrestling