Captain Midnight #7

(April 9, 1943)

Fun - Sport - Thrills - Games (Table of Contents: 1)

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Inside front cover.

Ad for the book "Fun for Boys" by the Knickerbocker Publishing, Company.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script

Wilfred Fawcett (credited as W. H. Fawcett, Jr.)

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Captain Midnight Raps the Japs and Stuns the Huns

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Captain Midnight [Captain Albright]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; The Clinger [Herr Suksenshusenmitz]

Indexer Notes

Table of contents with illustrations and a listing of the Editorial Advisory Board. Indicia at bottom of the page.

Editorial Advisory Board listed as: Eleanor B. Roosevelt (listed as past President of the Girl Scouts Council of Greater New York [and at the time, First Lady of the United States, but not noted]); Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (listed as "noted explorer, aviator, and author"); Allan Roy Dafoe, M.D. (listed as "the famous quintuplet doctor"); and Reverend John W. Tynan, S.J. (Father Tynan is listed as a member Fordham University faculty).

Fawcett staff listed as: Wilford Hamilton Fawcett [as W. H. Fawcett, Jr.](president); Roger K. Fawcett (vice-president); Allen E. Norman (secretary); Gordon Fawcett (treasurer); Eliott D. Odell (advertising director); Roscoe K. Fawcett (circulation director); Ralph Daigh (editorial director); and Al Allard (art director).

Subscription rate, 12 issues for 1.00 USD in the U.S. and its possessions. Published monthly at 8 Lord Street, Buffalo, New York, by arrangement with the Wander Company of Chicago, Illinois. Editorial and advertising offices located at 1501 Broadway, New York, New York. Other advertising offices: Chicago, Illinois, 360 North Michigan Avenue; Los Angeles, California, Simpson-Reilly, Garfield Building; San Francisco, California, Simpson-Reilly, 1014 Russ Building. General offices located in Greenwich, Connecticut.

The Flying Guinea Pig! (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 17.67 pages (report information)

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adventure; aviation

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Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11]; Joyce Ryan; Ichabod Mudd; Baron Von Togo (villain, death?); General Hirogati (villain)

Synopsis

Captain Midnight flies to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific to get an intact Japanese Zero for testing. Baron Von Togo learns of his plans and sets a trap by allowing a special radio-controlled Zero to be captured.

Keywords

Japanese; Nevada; Republic Thunderbird P-47; Solomon Islands; spies; suicide; Tokio; World War II; Zero

Indexer Notes

Captain Albright's testing facility is in Nevada.

A Special Treat Throughout the Whole Year! (Table of Contents: 4)

Mary Marvel / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

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Marc Swayze

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superhero

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Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]

Indexer Notes

Promo for Mary Marvel becoming a regular feature in Wow Comics.

Mary Marvel figure used in this promotional advertisement is taken from the cover of Wow Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #9 [January 6, 1943].

Doomed Wings (Table of Contents: 5)

Red Skye / text story / 3 pages (report information)

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Joe Millard (credited as Joseph J. Millard)

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adventure; aviation

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Red Skye; The Baron (villain)

Synopsis

Red Skye flies a Corsair catapulted from an disguised English merchant ship to protect a convoy from The Baron and his planes.

Keywords

catapult; convoy; Corsair; England; Germans; Junkers; World War II

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

Don't Miss Captain Midnight on the Radio! (Table of Contents: 6)

Captain Midnight / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]

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Drawing of Captain Midnight, with a list of cities and radio stations carrying his radio program.

The Strange Secret of the Invisible Plane! (Table of Contents: 7)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 10.67 pages (report information)

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adventure; aviation

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Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd; S. S. Yardarm (shipyard owner); Hitshoo (Japanese spy, villain); Japanese spies (villains); Japanese sailors (villains)

Synopsis

Captain Albright invents a special paint that turns invisible under strong light. Japanese spies steal a model coated with the special paint.

Keywords

invention; invisible; Japanese; spies; World War II

Indexer Notes

Title in the table of contents is "The Plane No Man Could See!"

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

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Hirohito's Looking Mighty Glum...

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Emperor Hirohito

Indexer Notes

Advertisement promoting the sale of war bonds and stamps.

The Spy of the Spanish Main! (Table of Contents: 9)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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adventure; aviation; superhero

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Captain Midnight [Captain Albright]; Chuck Ramsey; Schlager [as Major Everett] (villain); unnamed U.S. Naval personnel; Nazis soldiers (villains); local native; U.S. pilots

Synopsis

Nazis plant bombs on cargo planes to stop Allied supplies for the North African campaign.

Keywords

bombs; Nazis; planes; World War II

Oh, No? Don't You Believe There's a Captain Marvel Bunny? (Table of Contents: 10)

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anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero; western-frontier

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Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Billy the Kid; Paint (a horse)

Indexer Notes

Promo for "Funny Animals" comic, with two panels featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny.

The "Good" Gremlin (Table of Contents: 11)

Little Sneezer / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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humor

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Little Sneezer; Adolf Hitler; Herr Stoopidpuss; Gremlins

Synopsis

Little Sneezer is ferrying a plane across the Atlantic, when it is attacked by a battalion of gremlins. Sneezer is helped by a "good" gremlin and fights off the other gremlins with one of his sneezes.

Keywords

gremlins

Cadaverous Clinger! (Table of Contents: 12)

Captain Midnight / comic story / 12.67 pages (report information)

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Genre

adventure; aviation

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Captain Midnight [Captain Jim Albright]; Ichabod Mudd; Chuck Ramsay [SS-11]; Joyce Ryan; The Clinger [Herr Suksenshusenmitz] (villain, death?); Herr Fowlballe (villain, death?); Colonel Will Charles ? (Colonel is unnamed); German soldiers, U.S. soldiers

Synopsis

A costumed German spy has special gloves and shoes equipped with suction cups so he can climb walls. He and his gang of spies try to steal a bomb formula Captain Albright has invented so they can use it to cause a volcano to erupt.

Keywords

bomb formula; cave; dynamite; Mustang P-51; Nazis; spies; torture; World War II

Calling All He-Men! (Table of Contents: 13)

Don Winslow of the Navy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

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Don Winslow

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Promo for "Don Winslow of the Navy" comics.

Amazing Offer to Comic Readers (Table of Contents: 14)

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Inside back cover.

Advertisement for "Webster's Complete Reference Dictionary and Encyclopedia." Sold by Caxton House, Incorporated.

Free With This Offer 33 Power Telescope Lens Kit (Table of Contents: 15)

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Back cover.

Ad for the "Wonders of Science, Simplified" book by Metro Publications.