Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942
Editing: Gill Fox (editor)
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We Give You Midnight!
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Midnight / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:adventure; superhero
Characters:
Midnight [Dave Clark]; The Ray [Happy Terrill] (inset); Espionage [Black X] (inset); Rookie Rankin (inset); The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz] (inset)

Issue Data

[The Jumping Bean Abduction]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Midnight / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
Jack Cole (signed)
Pencils:
Jack Cole (signed)
Inks:
Jack Cole (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:adventure; superhero
Characters:
Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Mortimer Wackey; Gabby (a monkey); Waldo Whiz (introduction); Professor Porgie (villain)
Synopsis:
An old "friend" of Doc Wackey is causing trouble afflicting a town with a formula that causes its people to bounce like rubber. Meanwhile, Porgie kidnaps millionaire ex-circus star Waldo Whiz to finance his experiments, one of which is a trip to a planet made of solid gold, while another potion turns Wackey back into a criminal.

[Tashayoka]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Espionage Starring Black X / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Alex Kotzky (signed)
Inks:
Alex Kotzky (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:spy; adventure; war
Characters:
Espionage [Black X]; Batu; Tashayoka (villain)
Synopsis:
Black X slips into Tokyo during the Doolitte bombing in order to seduce Japanese actress and spy Tashayoka.

Indexer Notes

Writer credits by Craig Delich.

Will Eisner created the Espionage feature, and Will Erwin was a pen name used by Will Eisner (Erwin was Eisner's middle name), but it also became a house by-line after Eisner's tenure after 1940. Lane French wrote the feature in 1941, followed by Toni Blum (1942) and Otto Binder (1942-43).

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Archie O'Toole / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Your pipe, sire
Characters:
Archie O'Toole; Pansy Gaga
Synopsis:
The Fun-Dictator fires Pansy "The Queen of Burlesque" and hires a new "official dancer to the court" who doesn't appeal to King Archie.

The Sextuplets
(Table of Contents: 4)

The Jester / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Jester [Chuck Lane]; Detective Hustace McGinty; the Sextuplets (villains)
Synopsis:
One of six identically dressed mobsters pulls a bank robbery, but the question is: which one?

Indexer Notes

Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Wildfire / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Robert Turner (signed)
Pencils:
Jim Mooney (signed)
Inks:
Jim Mooney (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Monte Rose, dead on the floor!
Characters:
Wildfire; Helene Bennett; Blair Niles
Synopsis:
Helene Bennett thinks she killed Monte Rose, so she tries to jump off a building. But Wildfire has other ideas.

[Wanted!]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Bozo the Robot / comic story / 5 pages

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  • Genre:science fiction; superhero
Characters:
Hugh Hazzard; Bozo the Robot; Carl; Fritz
Synopsis:
Two Nazis try to frame Bozo for murder.

[The Khan]
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The Ray / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; The Khan (villain, introduction, death); Petrov (villain); Ileana Kamova (villain)
Synopsis:
Happy is kidnapped by Mongols and taken to Russia, where his plane is shot down, his captor killed, who leaves a map with his plans behind. The Ray discovers a special Russian division called the Flame Troops who have been trained by The Khan, a descendant of Genghis and Kublai Khan, both of whom had great strength and mystical knowledge. The Khan waylays the Ray long enough to lay siege to Moscow, but, when the Ray recovers, he throws the Khan to his doom from the top of St. Basil's Cathedral.
Reprints (2)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Rookie Rankin / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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Pencils:
Art Peddy (signed)
Inks:
Art Peddy (signed)
Colors:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Crime Takes a Holiday
Characters:
Rookie Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Ma Rankin; Spike; Big Jim Donnell
Synopsis:
A woman gives Rookie her baby to hold, and then disappears.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Wun Cloo / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Wun Cloo! I've just been robbed by a crook...

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 10)

The Purple Trio / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)
Inks:
Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)
Colors:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Among artists donating their services at a Red Cross benefit is...
Characters:
The Purple Trio [Warren; Tiny Todd; Rocky Hill]; Carl (villain); Adolph (villain)
Synopsis:
The Nazis try to steal the proceeds of a Red Cross show.

Murder Never Pays
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Jimmy Christian / text story / 2 pages

Script:
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure

Izan
(Table of Contents: 12)

Wings Wendall / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Vern Henkel (signed)
Pencils:
Vern Henkel (signed)
Inks:
Vern Henkel (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
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  • Genre:aviation
Characters:
Wings Wendall; Izan; Captain Grutz
Synopsis:
Nazi planes have been smuggled into America and now they're bombing Philadelphia.

[Zita]
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The Marksman / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:adventure; war; superhero
Characters:
The Marksman [Baron Povalski, aka Major Hurtz]; Vorka; Zita; General Feutchwarr (villain)
Synopsis:
In order to get out of a Nazi function, the Baron purposely crashes a plane and has Vorka declare him to be unfit for military duty. Then, as the Marksman, he meets the Nazi General with TNT-laden arrows, blowing his train off the tracks. Finally, a girl that the Baron once knew as a child is now working for the underground, and he has to rescue her from the Nazis, hiding her out in his tower hideaway.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. We Give You Midnight!
    Midnight
  2. [The Jumping Bean Abduction]
    Midnight
  3. [Tashayoka]
    Espionage Starring Black X
  4. ["Your pipe, sire"]
    Archie O'Toole
  5. The Sextuplets
    The Jester
  6. ["Monte Rose, dead on the floor!"]
    Wildfire
  7. [Wanted!]
    Bozo the Robot
  8. [The Khan]
    The Ray
  9. ["Crime Takes a Holiday"]
    Rookie Rankin
  10. ["Wun Cloo! I've just been robbed by a crook..."]
    Wun Cloo
  11. ["Among artists donating their services at a Red Cross benefit is..."]
    The Purple Trio
  12. Murder Never Pays
    Jimmy Christian
  13. Izan
    Wings Wendall
  14. [Zita]
    The Marksman
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