Master Comics #79

(May 1947)

In This Issue (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Marvel Jr. / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

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Genre

superhero

The Black Shroud (Table of Contents: 2)

Captain Marvel Jr. / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Genre

superhero

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Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]

The Big Sale (Table of Contents: 3)

Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Stan Kaye

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Stan Kaye

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Genre

humor

Characters

Colonel Corn; Korny Kobb

The Daffy Desperadoes (Table of Contents: 4)

Bulletman / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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Genre

superhero

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Bulletman [Jim Barr]

Shown Up (Table of Contents: 5)

Lumber Jack / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Ken Champin

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Ken Champin

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Genre

humor

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Lumber Jack; camp foreman

Synopsis

Jack asks the camp workers why they look so worried, and they tell him that they are afraid that the new foreman is going to make them work very hard.

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

Headhunters' Haven (Table of Contents: 6)

Nyoka the Jungle Girl / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Genre

jungle

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Nyoka; Uncle Safar; Dr. Gordon

Synopsis

Nyoka is told that Uncle Safar is dying of a rare tropical disease and needs penicillan soon or he'll die. But the plane bringing in the drug is caught in a terrible storm and forced to land in Headhunters' Haven, so Nyoka volunteers to go into that area and rescue the downed pilot and the drug.

Keywords

Borneo Jungle

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Tumbleweed Jr. / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

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Bill Brady

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Bill Brady

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tumbleweed, take your feet out of that water...

Genre

humor; western-frontier

Characters

Tumbleweed Jr.; un-named teacher

Synopsis

Tumbleweed's teacher tells him to take his feet off the water cooler because he might catch cold.

Indexer Notes

Art credits by Craig Delich.

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

For the Master Mind / activity / 0.33 page (report information)

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Genre

children

Indexer Notes

Readers are asked to solve five different true and false questions.

Hear Some Evil, See Some Evil (Table of Contents: 9)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

John Broome (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Bill Haenigson (hotel detective); Joe Minton; Mr. Feeley (hotel clerk); Wimple [The Black-Haired Bandit] (villain, bell-boy)

Synopsis

Bill tells Joe that he is hot on the trail of a female bandit whom the Police have been after for over a year, and intends to collect the $500 reward for capturing the bandit, whom he thinks is actually a man disguised as a woman. But it was Joe who uncovered the fact that the bell boy Whimple was actually the bandit....and a female dressing as a man.

Keywords

The Excelsior (hotel)

The Case of the Missing Stamps (Table of Contents: 10)

Richard Richard, Private Dick / comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

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Dick Mc Kay

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Dick Mc Kay

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Genre

humor; detective-mystery

Characters

Richard Richard (private detective); Ah Choo (Richard's assistant); Flub Dub (Richard's assistant, a talking dog); a street peddler (villain)

Synopsis

Richard enters the post office to buy a 3 cent stamp to mail a letter when a thief enters, wanting that stamp. Later, Richard tracks the thief down, then asks him for an air mail stamp, and when he can't supply one, Richard is told to wait, and the peddler puts on a mask and enters the same post office to rob it of air mail stamps.

Indexer Notes

Only appearance in Master Comics.

Art credits by Craig Delich.

The Milky Way (Table of Contents: 11)

Giggle Gags / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Genre

humor

Characters

Teddy; Betsy (a cow)

Indexer Notes

Humor involving milk in four single-panel and one three-panel cartoons.

The Death-Dealing Playboy (Table of Contents: 12)

Radar, the International Policeman / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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Genre

spy

Characters

Radar [Pep Pepper]; un-named Secretary of State; H. Borass (Salibian delegate); Sikir the Great (villain, fake Borass); The Playboy (villain); Ray Russ (villain); Joe (villain, a bartender)

Synopsis

Radar is given the assignemnt by his Chief to guard the Salibian delegate during an oil conference in Washington, unaware that the real Borgass has been kisnapped and replaced with a fake who intends to be dictator of Salibia.

Keywords

Salibia

The Log Jam Rescue (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 1 page (report information)