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Ontology scan with Superscan fills (replacing fiche pages)
Volume: #1, Issue: #1 [1]
Published: February 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page)
Genre: Western-frontier
Characters: Bull's-Eye Bill [Bill Target] Dee Parsons
Comic Story (8 pages) On the Trail of Travis Trent
Synopsis: Bull's-Eye Bill protects his friend Steve from the Sheriff's posse after Steve uses a gun to settle a land dispute with his neighbor. This puts Bill in hot water with the law, but all is soon forgiven when cattle rustler Travis Trent strikes, and the Sheriff needs Bill's help to bring him in. Dee suffers an unrequited love for Bill, who has no time for women.
Genre: Western-frontier
Characters: "Bull's-Eye" Bill [Bill Target] (introduction) Quing (introduction, A Cook) Dee Parsons (introduction) Steve Casey (introduction) Un-named Sheriff Travis Trent (villain, Introduction)
Comic Story (6 pages) The Coming of Manowar
Synopsis: Archeologists Simms and Ramon explore an erupting South American volcano. They discover, emerging from the devastation, the robot Manowar, who tells that he is the last servant of an ancient civilization. He was sent by his masters to bring the war mongers of the world to justice. He gets his first mission in the surrounding countryside, where Dictator Don Ruizen wages war for the benefit of corrupt oil companies.
Characters: The White Streak [Manowar] (Intro Origin) Simms (Intro) Ramon (Intro) Don Ruizen (Intro Death Villain)
Comic Story (7 pages) Sabotage
Characters: Lucky Byrd (Intro) Rocky Stone (Villain Intro Death)
Comic Story (4 pages) The Fifty-Year-Old Infants
Characters: Hi-Grass Twins [Moe Joe] (Intro)
Comic Story (7 pages) The Case of the Black Widow Spider
Characters: T-Man Turner (Origin Intro) Dr. Black (Villain
Comic Story (6 pages) The Clip-Ear Case
Characters: The City Editor (Intro) Pinky (Intro) Katie (Intro) Phil Manners (Intro) Joyce Bellamy (Intro)
Text Story (2 pages) Bullseye Bill Gets His Moniker
Featuring: Bull's-Eye Bill
Synopsis: Bill is mystified by a stranger coming out of the general store who is packing a gun, but also is said to be heading out to the Veedor mining claim to have a shootout. To make matters worse, Bill's friend, Steve Casey, has not been seen at his mining claim in a week.
Credits: Letters: typeset
Genre: Western-frontier
Characters: Bull's-Eye Bill [Bill Target] (origin) Jess Barnard (general Store Owner) Steve Casey Un-named Sheriff
Comic Story (3 pages) The Turkey Whistle
Characters: The Puppet Man (Intro) Jerry (Intro) Jane (Intro) Jerry's Mother (Intro)
Comic Story (8 pages) The Redemption of Speck
Synopsis: A scientist known only as The Captain runs a foundation called Boyville, whose mission is to train young men to be Rangers. With the assistance of the Skipper and Ranger V-Y, they take an errant trainee, Speck, into the field for some much-needed discipline. The training mission runs into unexpected complications when V-Y and Speck are captured by spies.
Characters: The Captain (Intro) The Skipper (Intro) V-Y (Intro) Speck (Intro) Other Inhabitants Of Boyville (Intro)
Comic Story (5 pages) Rip Rory's Initiation
Synopsis: Rip Rory is a freshman at State College, entering with a reputation as a star basketball player from high school. Upperclassman Bart decides to show up the freshman by taking him to the gym and making a fool of him on the basketball court. The plan backfires, as Rip's turns the tables on Bart. Bart's girlfriend Anne sees Bart's cruelty, and introduces herself to Rip.
Characters: Rip Rory (Intro) Bart (Villain Intro) Anne Stuart (Intro)
Comic Story (3 pages) Introducing the Sapps
Characters: Elmer Sapp (Intro) Ima Sapp (Intro) Junior Sapp (Intro)
Comic Story (5 pages) The Maskless Axeman
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