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Issue: #37
Published: November 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Midnight Scores Again!
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Doc Mortimer Wackey The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset) Espionage [Black X] (inset) Rookie Ranking (inset) The Marksman [Baron Povalski, Aka Major Hurtz] (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	Doc Wackey Goes Berserk!
Synopsis:	The mysterious Professor returns for Doc Wackey's life, and uses Doc to create and test a super-speed formula. Wackey ends up with super speed, which he proceeds to dedicate to a life of crime! Midnight took the serum himself just to keep up with Doc, but it eventually wears off.
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Midnight [Dave Clark] Doc Mortimer Wackey Gabby Skull Duggery The Professor

Comic Story (6 pages)	Rescuing Papa
Synopsis:	A little girl asks Black X to rescue her father who is being held by the Nazis behind enemy lines.
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	Espionage [Black X] Batu Tinka Van Doorne (Peter's Daughter) Peter Van Doorne

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Children

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	Chuck Lane asks that the toughest juvenile offender be paroled into his custody.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Jester [Chuck Lane] Tough Tony Dagger Joe (villain) Trigger (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)	Dean of Darkness
Synopsis:	The Dean of Darkness tries to hold Carol Martin for ransom, not realizing she's Wildfire.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Dean Of Darkness Wildfire

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Kidnapping of Peter Percy Gotgelt III
Synopsis:	A trio of kidnappers find a little boy too much to handle.
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Peter Percy Gotgelt III Hugh Hazzard Bozo The Terrible Trio

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Frozen Lands of the Midnight Sun
Synopsis:	The Ray searches for a spy who has ferreted out plans for an allied invasion of Norway.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Ray [Happy Terrill] Bud

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Rankin breaks up a counterfeiting ring that makes phony rationing coupons.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Rookie Rankin Ma Rankin Sgt. Burns Artie

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Detective-mystery
Characters:	Wun Cloo (detective)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Synopsis:	A disgruntled zoo employee lets the animals loose to get revenge on the zoo director.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	The Purple Trio [Rocky Hill Warren Tiny Todd] Peters (villain)

Text Story (2 pages)	Spy
Featuring:	Jimmy Christian
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Undersea Wolf
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Wings Wendall Captain Kroll Spinner Benson

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Amazing Adventures of the Three Shadows
Synopsis:	A Czech, an Austrian and a Pole escape from a concentration camp and join the underground as the Three Shadows, through whom the Marksman smuggles Nazi war plans to the British.
Genre:	Adventure War
Characters:	The Marksman [Baron Povalski, Aka Major Hurtz] Vorka The Three Shadows (introduction For All) Schtuper (villain)

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