Blue Circle Comics (1944) comic books 1945

Stories and art by Jack Warren and others. Sometimes listed as Blue Circle Comics Vol. 2 #1. Masked heroes face Axis forces in this WWII-era adventure series. A convicted female killer manages to switch places with journalist and action girl Gail Porter, leaving Gail stuck in prison while she roams free. As Queen of Atlantis, Maureen Marine gets to ride in the Undersea Derby, but the proceedings are disrupted when the Miro Men take Maureen captive. Slaphappy Grandpappy takes First Aid as part of his WWII homefront civic service, but he winds up as a dummy for the young women in his class to practice bandaging. Blue Circle: The Case of the Gambling Fool!; Gail Porter, Girl Photographer: Assignment to the Tombs; Toreador; Maureen Marine; Driftwood Davey; The Steel Fist: The Race Track Rats; Partners; Slaphappy Grandpappy. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harry Sahle. Stories and art by Jack Warren and others. Sometimes listed as Blue Circle Comics Vol. 2 #2. Offbeat heroes like Steel Fist, Gail Porter and Driftwood Davey star in this adventure series. While shopping for jewelry, journalist and action girl Gail Porter stumbles on a diamond-smuggling ring. The war above comes to Atlantis in the form of a Nazi U-boat, as the Maureen Marine strip shifts from light fantasy into wartime action. Hoboes Driftwood Davey and Iron Head get mixed up with gangsters while trying to make a few bucks for books and food on the San Francisco streets. Blue Circle: The Case of the Gambling Fool!; Gail Porter, Girl Photographer: The Mexican Diamonds!; Toreador; Maureen Marine: U-Boat Number 777; Driftwood Davey; The Steel Fist: Time Out for Sabotage!; Salt of the Earth; Slaphappy Grandpappy; 'Tenshun!. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harry Sahle. Contents do not match cover. The sixth issue of this run consisted of a new cover used to recover different remaindered comics dating from the late 1940's to early 1950's and several variations exist. This variation contains the remaindered comic - Colossal Features Magazine (1950) #3 - and it was re-covered by the publisher, Rural, without page 1 of the first story. Gangster Bugsy Siegel gets rubbed out after making Las Vegas into a world-famous Sin City. Stage magician Gene Simpson supplements his artistic income by turning to crime. Escaped convicts inspire a statewide manhunt after killing a Florida cop. Turn of the Wheel: The Crime Packed Career of Bugsy Siegal; Gene Simpson: The Mad Houdini; The Hurricane; The Great Florida Manhunt; Who Killed Bert Halliday? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Contents do not match cover. The sixth issue of this run consisted of a new cover used to recover different remaindered comics dating from the late 1940's to early 1950's and several variations exist. This variation contains the remaindered comic - Martin Kane - Private Eye #nn - and it was re-covered by the publisher, Rural, without page 1 of the first story. This was probably intended to be the third issue of the Martin Kane (1950 Fox) series, but it was never published. It includes the following Martin Kane stories: "Case of the Royal Rubies", "Ballad of Death", & "The King of Blackmail", plus a 2 page detective text story. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harry Sahle. Contents do not match cover. The sixth issue of this run consisted of a new cover used to recover different remaindered comics dating from the late 1940's to early 1950's and several variations exist. This variation contains the remaindered comic - Murder Incorporated (1948 1st Series) #14 - and it was re-covered by the publisher, Rural, without page 1 of the first story. Murder Incorporated was one of the more notorious pre-Code crime comics. Despite the nickname, Jack Gregory is no gentleman. Adam Richetti is a bank robber notorious for joining forces with Pretty Boy Floyd in the 1930s, when both he and Floyd are implicated in the Kansas City Massacre. "Gentleman" Jack Gregory; Bill Hale...King of the Murderers; Jungle Thirst; Trigger-Happy Richetti. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.