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National Comics #43

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CGC Census

5
Total graded
0
9.8 NM/MT
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8.0 VF

Colonel Lane meets his rival, Cappy Kane, who has learned about a four-armed freak that is an accomplished pickpocket, so Kane decides to use this freak to undermine Lane's circus by robbing patrons and implicating Mammoth Circus.

Cover date

August 10, 1944

Pages

60

Cover price

$0.10

Editor

Doyle

Characters

Bevans; Bill; Buddy Smith; Cappy Kane (villain); Carnie Callahan; Chic Carter; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Conroy; Dagger Marlin (first appearance; death); Dusty Dolan (first appearance; G-2 [Don Leash]; Gay; General Delaney; Heffy and his gang (first appearance; introduction); Japanese (villains); Jasper Jules (first appearance; Jeepers; Joe Adams; Joline Joy (first appearance); Lena; Lt. Commander Harvey Blake; Madam Shali (snake charmer; Major Midge; Matty Jules Dolan (first appearance; Mike; Mr. Kates (first appearance; Mrs. Adams; Press Hardt (villain); Quicksilver; Sally O'Neil; Shane (first appearance; Spudo the Spider Man [Clarence Twiddle] (villain but reforms, introduction, has four arms); The Barker; the Japanese (villains); Tiny Tim; Uncle Sam; villain; villain); villains); Windy Breeze

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