Issue: #57
Published: June 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gill Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was On-going Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
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| Comic Story (11 pages) |
The Japanese Doll Man |
| Synopsis: |
The Japanese force their own scientist, Dr. Hoto, to reproduce the Doll Man's shrinking serum, and, after several failures, he succeeds in shrinking a wrestler, whose strength was increased, but mind was destroyed. Doll Man tricks his foe into a cannon, shooting him to the sharks! |
| Credits: |
Script: ? [as William Erwin Maxwell] (credited) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Doll Man [Darrel Dane] A Japanese "Doll Man" (villain, Introduction, Death) Agent N (villain, Introduction, Death) Dr. Hoto (villain, Introduction) The Japanese (villains) |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Origin of the Spider Widow |
| Synopsis: |
A pair of mobsters visit Dianne's home, needing some gasoline for their getaway car. Dianne then donned an old green rubber mask, gathered some of her gardener's pet spiders, and hid inside the crook's trunk. When they arrived at the criminal's lair, she first learned that Lardo was sympathetic to Hitler, then scared his men with black widow spiders, over-coming all of them for the Police to round up. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Spider Widow [Dianne Grayton] (introduction, Origin) Bob Ableson (friend Of Dianne's, Introduction) Jake Lardo (villain, Introduction) Lardo's Gang (villains, Introduction For All) Hetzernoff (villain, Introduction, Death) |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Self-Stranglers |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Poison Ivy |
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