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Cover by Alan Mandel and Dan Barry. Stories and art by Charles Biro, Bob Wood, Alan Mandel, Dan Barry, Tony DiPreta, Al Ulmer, Pierce Rice and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. An exiled teen ruler flees the Nazis with his people and an ancient colossus built by Nostradamus, becoming The Boy King and the Giant. Ex-soldier and private eye Terry Gardner becomes Twilight, a masked hero battling crime with the aid of his parrot, Snoopy. An inventor uses a high-tech mask to avenge his brother's murder by gangsters, becoming the hero Micro-Face. The Boy King and the Giant!; Checking the Checker; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Smoke Rings of Death; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Murder Before the Footlights. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Alan Mandel and Dan Barry. Stories and art by Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, Al Ulmer, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Nightmare and his sidekick Sleepy investigate when Sunnytown's gravity suddenly gets turned off. Zippo uses his powered skates to investigate a doll factory that is smuggling steel to America's enemies during wartime. Twilight and Snoopy investigate suspicious doings at a museum, and encounter the villain known as The Porcupine. The Boy King: A Leader Against Crime!; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Upside-Down Town; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Detectives Have Brains; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight: The Quilled Death!! 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, Pierce Rice, Arturo Cazeneuve and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Nightmare and Sleepy are fearsome in their skeleton-based costumes, but not as terrifying as the Corpse That Steals Men's Faces. The military learns of an Axis plan to destroy Boulder Dam, and luckily, the one man they tell about it is secretly the superhero Zippo. Jackie Law and his pals Buck, Corny, Gorilla and Froggy form a gang that fights crime as the Boy Rangers. The Boy King; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Corpse That Steals Living Men's Faces; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; The Forgotten Key; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Hitler orders scientists to create a Nazi robot tyrannosaur to battle the Giant and the Boy King. Nightmare and Sleepy battle a villain whose skill is making ultra-realistic silhouettes in a short time. Micro-Face becomes caught up in the deadly hunt for the cursed gem called the Fire of Kenya. The Boy King and the Giant; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Silhouettes of Death!!; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; The Blind Detective; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Dan Barry, Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, and John Cassone. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. The Crane, a Nazi agent with telescoping arms, targets the Giant and the Boy King. Nightmare and Sleepy battle a prison baseball team who continue their baseball-themed crimes after being paroled. Micro-Face investigates a murder, but the body is nowhere to be found. The Boy King and the Giant; Nightmare and Sleepy: The Crooked Nine and the Diamond Robberies!!!; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; The Tall Witness; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Twilight. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Dan Barry. Stories and art by Harry Kiefer, Maurice Del Bourgo, Dave Curtis, Alan Mandel, Tony DiPreta, Ray Willner and Al Ulmer. Forgotten superheroes from the Golden Age of comics, featuring early work by Dan Barry and other comics legends. Zippo, Nightmare and Sleepy were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. The Boy King meets Muggsy and the Little Angels, a gang of street kids in the tradition of the Dead End Kids, and learns that Muggsy is his long-lost identical twin brother. In a Wyoming ghost town, Nightmare and Sleepy stumble upon a forgotten gold mine, but a Nazi fifth columnist wants it too. Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers take on "Brains" Briefer, crime's cleverest crook. The Boy King and the Giant: Introducing... Muggsy and the Little Angels; Nightmare and Sleepy; Stupid Manny; Micro-Face; Waterproof Alibi; Zippo; Jackie Law and the Boy Rangers; Two-Faced Town. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.