Issue: #4
Published: June 1940, 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: Some info verified using a DCM scan (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/). On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 448697. Louis H. Silberkleit is recorded as editor on the first published Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1939. Abner J. Sundell was working as editor for Louis Silberkleit's pulp publications and could have acted as editor on the early M.L.J comic books.
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| Comic Story (11 pages) |
The Canal Zone Murder Case |
| Characters: |
V: Wheeler (I) |
| Text Article (1 page) |
Hunting the Coyote |
| Synopsis: |
Short article about hunting coyotes while on motorcycles. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Origin of Ty-Gor |
| Synopsis: |
To atone for the death of a tiger cub, a witch doctor must offer a human sacrifice, and this time it must be a white boy. Tyrone Gorman was offered as a living sacrifice to tigers in the jungles of Malay, but, instead, the tigress Malma raises him and continues his jungle adventures even though he is unaware that he is an heir to a fortune back home. |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Ty-Gor [Tyrone Gorman] (introduction, Origin) Mr. And Mrs. Gorman (Ty-Gor's Parents, Introduction, Both Die) Malma (a Tigress) The Gapousas (villains, Introduction For All, One Dies) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Isle of Right |
| Synopsis: |
World War II has lasted to the year 2039 and is thus called the Hundred Year War. It has laid waste to civilizations, and much of humanity is reduced to a barbaric state and conquered by Mongol warlord Gustave Ritter. With a small band set out to rebuilding civilization and science in an underground city on the Isle of Right (an island in the Pacific that they settle), Doc Strong uses one of his inventions: a gun that solidifies shadows, to immobilize those that are attached or touching the shadows. |
| Genre: |
Adventure War |
| Characters: |
Doc Strong (introduction, Origin) Alice Rayburn (atomic Chemist, Introduction) Professor Harrison (electrical Engineer, Introduction) Dr. Henry Davidge (introduction) Walter Parker (mechanical Engineer, Introduction) Edward Stuyvesant (cowardly Traitorous Geologist, Introduction) Sampson Smith (Swedish Cook, Introduction) Gustave Ritter (villain, Mongol Warlord, Introduction) |
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