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Series: Pep Comics

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Publisher: Archie

Title: Pep Comics
Issue: 40
Page Count: 60
Publish Date: July 1943
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Harry Shorten

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Pep Comics #40
Owner: walclark

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Shield
Pages:1
Pencils:Bob Montana
Inks:Bob Montana
Genre:superhero
Characters:Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty


Story Title: Introducing Monstro, the Monster From Mars - comic story
Features:The Original Shield and Dusty The Boy Detective
Pages:11
Pencils:Irv Novick (signed)
Inks:Irv Novick (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Shield [Joe Higgins]; Dusty; Monstro (introduction, a Martian)
Synopsis:A man from Mars comes to Earth, but folks think it's another Orson Wells gag.


Story Title: The Case of the Singing Corpse - comic story
Features:The Hangman
Pages:10
Pencils:Bob Fujitani [as Bob Fuje]
Inks:Bob Fujitani [as Bob Fuje]
Genre:superhero
Characters:Hangman [Bob Dickering]; Thelma Gordon; Phillips (villain, introduction); Herb Cook (introduction, death in flashback); Rosalind Cook (introduction, death)
Synopsis:A radio announcer and control man are murdered, while they are on the air.


Story Title: Blackmail - text story
Features:The Shield
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Characters:The Shield


Story Title: The Conga Goes To War - comic story
Features:Captain Commando And The Boy Soldiers
Pages:7
Pencils:Irv Novick (signed)
Inks:Irv Novick (signed)
Genre:military; superhero
Characters:Captain Commando; The Boy Soldiers [Flatbush; Billy; Percy; Armand]; A Japanese Captain (villain, introduction, death); a tribe of South Sea Islanders (introductions, some deaths)
Synopsis:Captain Commando and the Boy Soldiers' transport ship has sunk off the Solomon Islands.


Story Title: The Peerless Pitcher of Mudcat - comic story
Features:Catfish Joe
Pages:6
Pencils:Larry Harris
Inks:Larry Harris
Letters:Larry Harris ?
Characters:Catfish Joe (introduction); his mother (introduction); Alex (introduction); Prof. Otto K. Balderdash (introduction); A prison warden (villain, introduction); the sheriff of Mudcat (villain, introduction)


Story Title: The Mountain Lion - comic story
Features:Li'l Chief Bugaboo
Pages:6
Pencils:Higgins
Inks:Higgins
Characters:Li'l Chief Bugaboo (introduction); Fido (introduction); Bugaboo's mother; Bugaboo's brother
Synopsis:Bugaboo meets a mountain lion.


Story Title: Batching It - comic story
Features:Archie
Pages:6
Pencils:Harry Sahle
Characters:Archie Andrews; Fred Andrews; Mrs. Andrews
Synopsis:Archie and Mr. Andrews run the house while Mrs. Andrews is on vacation. Unfortunately, the guys are not the best housekeepers.


Story Title: Adventure of the Inner Temple - comic story
Features:Bentley of Scotland Yard
Pages:5
Pencils:Gil Kane
Inks:Gil Kane
Genre:adventure; detective-mystery
Characters:Inspector J. Bentley; Ridgely (villain, introduction, death); the "Sphinx Men" (villains, introductions); Edwin Meecham (introduction, death); Haskins (introduction, death); Lewis (introduction)
Synopsis:Bentley tells a story of what happened while he was in Egypt a few years earlier.


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