Issue: #24
Published: October 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Data from Jerry Bails index cards & Howard Keltners Golden Age index used for this comic. Sequence update by Darci.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Life At Its Worst |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The King of Darkness |
| Synopsis: |
A dictatorial foreign nation is very much interested in the invention of a death ray by Bruce King and sends out agents to the United States to capture it. They confront King, who switches to his special uniform and creates total darkness in his lab which creates a numbing cold that incapacitates the agents. However, a Nazi agent, noting the failure of the three agents, kills all three and pins the crime on Bruce King. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The King Of Darkness [Bruce King] (radio Engineer, Introduction, Origin) Sergeant Burke (Policeman, Introduction) Head Nazi Agent (villain, Introduction) Foreign Nation Agents [Carl Hans Fritz] (villains, Introduction For All, All Die) |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Monkey Business |
| Featuring: |
Phil and Bill |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Phil Bill |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
Origin of the Blue Lady |
| Featuring: |
The Blue Lady |
| Synopsis: |
Novelist Lucille Martin is on a boat headed home from China where she was getting proper atmosphere for her new novel, when the maid of Chin Liang informs her that she is carrying a valuable jade idol to New York for her master, and that three enemy agents are on board to stop her. The maid, soon to die, gives Lucille a "Bluebird" ring and the idol to deliver to America. Once home, Lucille finds her home ransacked and the idol missing. When she accidentally drops the ring and steps on it, a mysterious gas is emitted which gives Lucille Martin super-powers, which she uses to retrieve the idol. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Blue Lady [Lucille Martin] (novelist, Introduction, Origin) Larry Grant (Lucille's Sweetheart, Introduction) Lotus (faithful Maid Of Chin Liang, Introduction, Death) Unnamed Banker (introduction, Death) Sing Thang (introduction) Chinese Gangsters [Lee Others Unnamed] (villains, Introduction For All) |
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