Master Comics #36

(February 24, 1943)

In This Issue (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mac Raboy

Inks

Mac Raboy

Colors

?

Letters

?

Characters

Captain Marvel Jr.

[Liberty for the Chetniks] (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Marvel Jr. / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mac Raboy

Inks

Mac Raboy

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; The Wizard (villain)

Indexer Notes

Alter Ego #120 (September 2013) indicates that many panels of this story contained photostats of Captain Marvel Jr. figures adhered to the art pages.

Battles the Murderous Wizard! (Table of Contents: 3)

Bulletman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Bulletman [Jim Barr]

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #108 (2018)

Indexer Notes

Titled "Battles the Wizard of Murder" in the table of contents.

[Chapter VIII] (Table of Contents: 4)

Hoodoo Hannigan / text story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Joseph Millard

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Minute Man Meets the Mummy (Table of Contents: 5)

Minute Man / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder ?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Minute Man [Jack Weston]; The Mummy (villain, death); German agents (villains, all die)

Synopsis

Private Jack Weston receives a coded message for him to investigate the death of a military intelligence agent in Egypt, whose last words were "The Mummy lives!" before he died. While doing so, he bumps into an Arab who strangely speaks German fluently, and follows him to a secreted Egyptian temple. There he discovers the supposed mummy of Rameses II, who speaks to the faithful and encourages them to support the efforts of the enemies of the American and British invaders. In the end, Minute Man finds out that the mummy is a Nazi in disguise.

Reprints

• in Whiz Comics (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1941 series) #v2#8 (August 1943) [script only]
• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #112 (2019)
• in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #20 (2020)

Keywords

Cairo (Egypt); Office of Military Intelligence; Red Sea; Valley of the Moon; Washington D.C.

Indexer Notes

Script credit by Craig Delich. The Who's Who lists only Binder as scripter on the strip and is added with a ?

The AC reprint lists Phil Bard as the artist, but the Who's Who indicates many artists working on the strip in this time period. Until some art spotter can conclusively ID this art as Bard, the ? remains.

At story's end, Weston is promoted to the rank of Corporal.

For Victory Buy War Bonds (Table of Contents: 6)

The Mad Artist / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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?

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?

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?

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Captain Marvel Jr. Joins Spy Smasher! (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain Marvel Jr. / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

?

Inks

?

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?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Synopsis

House ad for the new 100-page All Hero Comics.

Death Rides the Falls (Table of Contents: 8)

Balbo the Boy Magician / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero; adventure; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Satanus (villain)

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

Balbo's Own Magic Page / activity / 1 page (report information)

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?

Pencils

?

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?

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?

Letters

?

[Hitler Snowman] (Table of Contents: 10)

Little Albert / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Little Albert

Synopsis

Little Albert builds a snowman to resemble Hitler, then knocks it over.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Hopalong Cassidy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ralph Carlson

Inks

Ralph Carlson

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Sheriff Hopalong Cassidy has trailed and jailed many a western law-breaker, but he never set our with a grimmer determination to get his man [...]

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Hopalong Cassidy; Topper (horse); Mesquite (deputy); Betty Wimmot; Sing Hi; Spike (rustler)

Synopsis

The daughter of an old friend of Hopalong is kidnapped by rustlers and left to die.

Indexer Notes

Carlson can be recognized by his horses: very long, narrow, tapering heads with two marked lines leading to the nostrils and by the movement of the legs. Notice the outstretched front legs on page 2.