Four Favorites #20

(November 1945)

An Outstanding Value!! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Simmons Company / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

Magno and Davey / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Rudy Palais (signed as Rudy Palais)

Inks

Rudy Palais (signed as Rudy Palais)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Behind the glitter and glamour of Hollywood, behind the false fronts...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Magno; Davey; Godfrey Van Kyne; Lana Sherman; Lyle Johnson; Hal; Mike

Synopsis

Magno and Davey are at the Associated Players studio in Hollywood when two of the biggest stars are mysteriously killed.

Keywords

Hollywood

Indexer Notes

Inks previously credited to "?", but they are distinctively Palais.

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

Unknown Soldier / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

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Loyal Chinese-Americans toasted their friends in far-off China...

Genre

spy; superhero; war

Characters

Unknown Soldier; unnamed Japanese spy; Tu Sing; Wu Fang

Synopsis

A Japanese spy infiltrates a Chinese-American group to get the names of those in the Chinese resistance and mark them for death.

Indexer Notes

Last appearance. In #21 he's replaced by 'The Unknown', an invisible Fate-like character

Desperado Destiny (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Cliff Howe (house name)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gunfire cut loose in the bank at Roselyn, Washington...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Bill McCarthy; Frank McCarthy; Tom McCarthy; Matt Warner; Dave Moffat; Fred McCarthy; A. T. Blanchley; H. H. Wolbert; W. Ray Simpson

Synopsis

A detailed account of the bank robberies of the McCarthy Blue Mountain Gang in Colorado and Washington state in 1889 and 1892.

[The Werewolf of Wetheridge] (Table of Contents: 5)

Lash Lightning / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Nina Albright (signed as Albright)

Inks

Nina Albright (signed as Albright)

Colors

?

Letters

?

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Only superstitious folk in the middle ages believed...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Lash Lightning; Lightning Girl [Isobel Blake] (reporter for The Daily Ledger); Chief (editor); Professor Davis; Weber (rival reporter)

Synopsis

A reported werewolf sighting is investigated by Isobel Blake on the property of professor Davis.

Indexer Notes

Inks previously credited to "?", but by comparison with her work for other publishers they are by Albright herself.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Captain Courageous / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Gregg (signed as George Gregg)

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

So Deadly was America's new secret weapon that -- upon its completion...

Genre

superhero; war

Characters

Captain Courageous; Captain Nippo (arch-villain); Professor Arvin; Arvin's daughter and wife; Japanese navy captain

Synopsis

On the brink of completing a top secret bomb detonator, Professor Arvin is captured by Captain Nippo.

[Learn to Fight and Post-War Opportunities] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Pickwick Books / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

What's My Job? - I Manufacture Weaklings into Men! (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / advertisement / 1 page (report information)