(1944)
Fox,
1944 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 132
- On-sale Date
- 1944
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Wm H. Wise & Co. Inc.
- Brand
- Great Comic Library; World's Best Comics
- Editing
- Victor Fox (editor)
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Golden Age U. S.
- Paper Stock
- glossy cover; black and white interior
- Binding
- squarebound
- Publishing Format
- one-shot
Issue Notes
Note there are actually two one-shot All Great Comics, one in 1944 and one in 1945. They are indexed separately. They are distinguished from the ongoing All Great Comics series.
[no title indexed]
Captain Jack Terry; Joan Mason; The O'Brine Twins / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, whadda y'know about that, brother!
- Keywords
- airplanes
Saboteurs at Work
Captain Jack Terry / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Captain Jack Terry (first appearance); Hermann Goering; Von Teufel (first appearance, death); Nazis
Indexer Notes
Art is consistent with Paddock’s signed work from New Adventure Comics #14-16 (1937), including the style he draws women in and the way he draws the “S” inside the ear.
[no title indexed]
Minit Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- Mystery
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Due to the numerous and mysterious fires in the lumber camp region...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sgt. Blake
- Reprints
- in Blue Beetle (Fox, 1940 series) #33 (August 1944)
-
It's the Gypsy in Them!
Red Kamphor / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yeah - everything's sweet as long as Red Kamphor the skunk is away...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
Indexer Notes
contents page title
[no title indexed]
Panda Myme / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A burn, with a feather!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
[no title indexed]
Crime at Number Nine / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Psst-bzz-th' usual place...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
[no title indexed]
Camp Capers / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sir, can I help it if they issued me an oversize helmet?
- Genre
- humor; military
Tokyo Mission
Captain Jack Terry / comic story / 15 pages
- Characters
- J. Edgar Hoover; Admiral "Bull" Halsey; General Marshall; Admiral King; General "Hap" Arnold; General Dwight D. Eisenhower ?; Nazis (villain); Japanese (villain)
Indexer Notes
Art is consistent with Paddock’s signed work from New Adventure Comics #14-16 (1937), including the style he draws women in and the way he draws the “S” inside the ear.
[no title indexed]
Minit Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The city of Idlewood - a midwestern town...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Tim Blake
- Synopsis
- The mayor asks Blake to find out who's behind a kidnapping ring; the mayor himself is the culprit.
- Keywords
- Idlewood
[no title indexed]
Phil Flop / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is the end--
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Signed on the bottom-right section of the fourth page.
The Whistling Death
Joan Mason / comic story / 6 pages
- Reprints
- from Blue Beetle (Fox, 1940 series) #31 (June 1944)
-
Murder On the Diamond
Joan Mason / comic story / 6 pages
- Reprints
- from Blue Beetle (Fox, 1940 series) #32 (July 1944)
-
[no title indexed]
Sis and Junior / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh! Th' music's stopped short!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
The O'Brine Twins / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From now on, Brother Waterman...
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
The O'Brine Twins / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Y'know what, Waterman?
- Genre
- humor
The Deeds of Baron Doomsday
Baron Doomsday / comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- Baron Doomsday [Baron Dumont] (villain, introduction, death); Marianne Dumont (introduction); Claude Dumont (introduction)
The Screwy Sleuth
Dick Transom / comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Dick Transom (introduction); Foxface (villain, introduction)
- Reprints
- from The Green Mask (Fox, 1940 series) #10 (August 1944)
-
Task Force
Captain Jack Terry / comic story / 15 pages
Indexer Notes
Last appearance. Art is consistent with Paddock’s signed work from New Adventure Comics #14-16 (1937), including the style he draws women in and the way he draws the “S” inside the ear.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Well, whadda y'know about that, brother!"]
Captain Jack Terry; Joan Mason; The O'Brine Twins -
1.
Saboteurs at Work
Captain Jack Terry -
2.
["Due to the numerous and mysterious fires in the lumber camp region..."]
Minit Mystery -
3.
It's the Gypsy in Them!
Red Kamphor -
4.
["A burn, with a feather!"]
Panda Myme -
5.
["Psst-bzz-th' usual place..."]
Crime at Number Nine -
6.
["Sir, can I help it if they issued me an oversize helmet?"]
Camp Capers -
7.
Tokyo Mission
Captain Jack Terry -
8.
["The city of Idlewood - a midwestern town..."]
Minit Mystery -
9.
["This is the end--"]
Phil Flop -
10.
She's a Daisy
Mazy -
11.
Adventures In Africa
Bull and Slats -
12.
The Whistling Death
Joan Mason -
13.
Murder On the Diamond
Joan Mason -
14.
Captain Anthony's Odyssey
-
15.
["Gosh! Th' music's stopped short!"]
Sis and Junior -
16.
["From now on, Brother Waterman..."]
The O'Brine Twins -
17.
["Y'know what, Waterman?"]
The O'Brine Twins -
18.
The Deeds of Baron Doomsday
Baron Doomsday -
19.
The Screwy Sleuth
Dick Transom -
20.
[The Strange Case of the Mad Taxidermist]
Dick Transom -
21.
Task Force
Captain Jack Terry
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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