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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
The Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Mickey Finn (inset); Lala Palooza (inset); Spin Shaw (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Big Top (inset); Rance Keane (inset); Reynolds of the Mounted (inset); Bruce Blackburn (inset); The Ghost Detective (inset); The Voice (inset); Captain Fortune (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset)
Pencils:
Lou Fine
Inks:
Lou Fine
STORY DETAILS
Title:
The Sins of Anton Bock
Characters:
Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Dr. Roberts; Martha Roberts; Caleb (introduction); unnamed Sheriff (introduction); Anton Bock (villain, introduction); Bock's spy ring [Butch; unnamed others] (villains, introduction for all, one dies)
Synopsis:
Professor Roberts has perfected a powerful gas, a gas too dangerous to sell or even use, so he decides to destroy it. Before he can do so, he is kidnapped from his lab. Later, Darrel and Martha track his movements to the waterfront, where there are strange lights of red, blue and green, as well as mysterious noises. Doll Man steps in to corner the crooks and save Professor Roberts.
Pages:
9.000
Script:
Will Eisner [as William Erwin Maxwell] (signed)
Pencils:
Lou Fine
Inks:
Lou Fine
Title:
The Capture of Castle Balomar
Characters:
Captain Fortune [Tyrone Fortune]; Duke Edward (villain; death)
Pages:
4.000
Script:
Vernon Henkel
Pencils:
Vernon Henkel
Inks:
Vernon Henkel
Pages:
2.000
Pencils:
John Devlin (signed)
Inks:
John Devlin (signed)
Title:
The Three-Fingered Ogre
Characters:
Zero (the ghost detective, introduction); Mr. Bleeker (introduction); Mary Bleeker (introduction); John Bleeker (introduction, death); Peter Bleeker (villain, a zombie, introduction, death)
Synopsis:
Zero investigates the ghostly return of three brothers, who in their youth had made a pact: if one of them were to die, he must return in the form of an ogre, to care for the others. In adulthood, one of the brothers died, returned as an ogre, and killed a brother. Zero unearthed the body and drove a stake through its heart.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Toni Blum
Pencils:
Dan Zolnerowich [as Arthur Hamon Doyle] (signed)
Inks:
Dan Zolnerowich [as Arthur Hamon Doyle] (signed)
Notes:
Dan Zolnerowich created Zero.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who.
Zero's clients referred to him as Mr. Zero.
Title:
The Medicine Man's Scheme
Characters:
Sakru (first appearance; villain); Wade and his gang (first appearance; villains)
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Art Pinajian
Pencils:
Art Pinajian
Inks:
Art Pinajian
Title:
The Snatch of the Plane Plans
Characters:
Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; G. Roland Lorber (first appearance; villain); Inez (first appearance; villain); Joe (first appearance; villain); Fingers (first appearance; villain); Arndt (first appearance; villain)
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Bob Powell
Pencils:
Bob Powell
Inks:
Bob Powell
Title:
Super Salesmanship
Characters:
Lala Palooza
Pages:
2.000
Pencils:
John Devlin
Inks:
John Devlin
Notes:
Includes a Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers parody.
Title:
The Murder of Bus Pritchard
Characters:
Rance Keane; Bus Pritchard (first appearance; death); a murderer (first appearance; villain)
Pages:
4.000
Script:
William A. Smith
Pencils:
William A. Smith [as Will Arthur]
Inks:
William A. Smith
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Ed Reed
Pencils:
Ed Reed
Inks:
Ed Reed
Letters:
Ed Reed
Title:
Living Dead Men
Characters:
Captain Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy (introduction, origin); Lieutenant Jackson (introduction, Blackburn's double); Colonel Jordan (introduction, War Department Officer); Schwartz (villain, introduction); Smits (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
Blackburn and Jackson fake their own deaths by placing two medical school corpses in a car, setting it on fire, and pushing it over a cliff, all because someone had leaked a picture of Blackburn to the newspapers. Then, to hide their identities, both men go to a plastic surgeon, who alters their features to new, identical, appearances. Using an antique store as a front for their espionage, they catch the man who blew their covers.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Harry Campbell
Pencils:
Henry Weston Taylor
Inks:
Henry Weston Taylor
Notes:
Artist name correction from Henry Taylor Weston to Henry Weston Taylor by Craig Delich 2012-8-27.
Script credit suggested by the Who's Who. The character was created by Harry Francis Campbell.
Title:
The Insurance Murder Plot
Characters:
Rusty Ryan (introduction, origin); Inhabitants of Boyville [Smiley Scott; Bobby; Ed; Whitey; Scotty] introduction); Cappy Jenks (introduction); Mr. Hicks (introduction); Lockhart (villain, introduction); Spear (villain, introduction)
Pages:
4.000
Script:
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Pencils:
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inks:
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Letters:
Paul Gustavson
Notes:
All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Title:
Gold of Atlantis
Characters:
Perry Scott (first appearance)
Pages:
2.000
Script:
Robert M. Hyatt
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Origin of the Voice
Characters:
The Voice [Mr. Elixir] (introduction, origin); Fogarty (introduction); John Martinson (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
In 1790, a ship sinks due to a typhoon in the South Seas, and a man, his wife, and their son survive. They drift toward a tropical isle, where they subsist on rare, life-giving herbs. Soon, the parents die, but the herbs allow the boy to somehow survive. 150 years later, a ship stops by the isle and rescues an old man, taking him to London. There, he finds out he needs the herbs to live. He recreates the plant, which gives him super-strength. To fight crime, he sets up crooks, then he tips off the police by radio messages as "Elixir -- The Voice!"
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