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Yellowjacket; Diana the Huntress / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Diana the Huntress

Indexer Notes

Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits the art to Battefield.

The insert artwork of Diana the Huntress is taken from the final panel of her story in Yellowjacket #1, art by Gus Schrotter.

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: [none printed]

Indexer Notes

Some corrected story information from Jim Ludwig (February 2005). No indicia present.

The Curse of the Broken Claw
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Yellowjacket / comic story / 9 pages

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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Yellowjacket [Vince Harley]; Major Vinson; Andy Douglas; Doc Krause; Bramm
Synopsis:
At a military hospital some patients die as a doctor injects them with crab serum to grow new limbs.

Indexer Notes

Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Battefield on pencils.

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Diana the Huntress / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; superhero; war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Greece, land of culture and courage, is turned into a scene of starvation and death by the vengeful Nazis.
Characters:
Diana the Huntress; Hercules; Jupiter; Mercury; Discordia
Synopsis:
Diana and gods from Mt. Olympus descend in wrath on a Nazi convoy approaching Greece.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

The figures and female faces match well Morey's later signed story in Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #104. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. also credits Morey with the art.

Killer
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text story / 2 pages

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typeset
  • Genre:crime

The Pit and the Pendulum
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Famous Tales of Terror / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:
Adapted from a story by Edgar Allan Poe. A man sentenced by the Inquisition to a horrible death in a dark pit, bound and waiting for a swinging, descending pendulum to cut him in half but is saved by rats gnawing on his straps.

Indexer Notes

The art is very similar to his Diana the Huntress stories and his signed story in Camera Comics (US Camera, 1944 series) #6. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits him only on pencils.

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Debunker / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The flying fox is not a fox... but a large bat

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King of the Beasts / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Can you solve these clues?
Characters:
Danny King; Zelda; Doris; Thurman; Jerry Thimble; Roscoe; Ganery; Sahara (lion)
Synopsis:
Two circus artista are killed, and Danny uses the lion to track the murderer.

Indexer Notes

DeLay can be recognized by the "slow" movement of the rather short figures. Also faces and the layout style more like old book illustrations.

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Harbor Lights / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This is a story about Gunner Thompson...
Characters:
Gunner Thompson
Synopsis:
A killer meets a black garbed figure on the road who predicts his death, and shortly after he is drafted into the army where he meets his end.

Indexer Notes

Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Palais on the art.

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Bee Lines / comic story / 1 page

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W. Carroll (signed)
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W. Carroll (signed)
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  • Genre:humor; war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gregg has been doing that ever since he heard a rumor that Congress repealed the law of gravity!
Characters:
Simple Suzie
Synopsis:
5 gag panels

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Filipino Kid / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Brutally oppressed beneath the heel of the conqueror's boot, our Filipino fellow-citizen reaps ruthless revenge --
Characters:
Captain Oshikama
Synopsis:
Armed with only with a bolo knife, the Filipino Kid leads his marauders against the murder master of Manila, Captain Oshikama.

Indexer Notes

Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. credits Gregg with this art.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Yellowjacket; Diana the Huntress
  2. The Curse of the Broken Claw
    Yellowjacket
  3. ["Greece, land of culture and courage, is turned into a scene of starvation and death by the vengeful Nazis."]
    Diana the Huntress
  4. Killer
  5. The Pit and the Pendulum
    Famous Tales of Terror
  6. ["The flying fox is not a fox... but a large bat"]
    Debunker
  7. ["Can you solve these clues?"]
    King of the Beasts
  8. ["This is a story about Gunner Thompson..."]
    Harbor Lights
  9. ["Gregg has been doing that ever since he heard a rumor that Congress repealed the law of gravity!"]
    Bee Lines
  10. ["Brutally oppressed beneath the heel of the conqueror's boot, our Filipino fellow-citizen reaps ruthless revenge --"]
    Filipino Kid
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