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  • Fictional character OCR: YOU'LL FRAME SELF- LOVEDEAR. YOU WOULDN'T WANT ALMOST BROKE. BUT WE'LL FACE TO JAIL YOUR HUSBAND FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. I INVESTED RATHER HEAVILY FOR YOU IN INSIDE STRAIGHTS. YOU ARE YOU'LL MARRY ME.. NOW! ME IN LADDY MANDERS' MURDER UNLESS I MARRY YOU? WHAT KIND OF LOVE IS THATGRAVES? YOU UNSPEAKABLE FOOL. I'LL.. EVERYTHING OUT TOGETHERWON'T WE? YOU'LL FRAME SELF- LOVEDEAR. YOU WOULDN'T WANT ALMOST BROKE. BUT WE'LL FACE TO JAIL YOUR HUSBAND FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. I INVESTED RATHER HEAVILY FOR YOU IN INSIDE STRAIGHTS. YOU ARE YOU'LL MARRY ME.. NOW! ME IN LADDY MANDERS' MURDER UNLESS I MARRY YOU? WHAT KIND OF LOVE IS THATGRAVES? YOU UNSPEAKABLE FOOL. I'LL.. EVERYTHING OUT TOGETHERWON'T WE?

    Tue, August 25, 1953

    Rip Kirby

    By Alex Raymond
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  • Font OCR: BUT IT PAID ENOUGH TO GET YOU GIRLS THROUGH SCHOOL. A LITTLE EXTRA NOW AND THENTOO...IT WASN'T REALLY TOO BAD.. THIRTY YEARS AT THE MASON BANK- WHYTHAT'S PRACTICALLY CHILDREN.MAYBE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN BAD YEARS. I WAS FIRED TODAY.. WHY.. YOU TALK LIKE YOU WERE NEVER GOING BACK THERE.. POP6! DID SOMETHING HAPPEN TODAY..I MEAN... SOMETHING THAT UPSET YOU? A LIFE SENTENCE! WHEN IS THE WARDEN GOING TO PAROLE YOU? NOT TOO REWARDING IN A FINANCIAL WAY.. 8-25 BUT IT PAID ENOUGH TO GET YOU GIRLS THROUGH SCHOOL. A LITTLE EXTRA NOW AND THENTOO...IT WASN'T REALLY TOO BAD.. THIRTY YEARS AT THE MASON BANK- WHYTHAT'S PRACTICALLY CHILDREN.MAYBE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN BAD YEARS. I WAS FIRED TODAY.. WHY.. YOU TALK LIKE YOU WERE NEVER GOING BACK THERE.. POP6! DID SOMETHING HAPPEN TODAY..I MEAN... SOMETHING THAT UPSET YOU? A LIFE SENTENCE! WHEN IS THE WARDEN GOING TO PAROLE YOU? NOT TOO REWARDING IN A FINANCIAL WAY.. 8-25

    Tue, August 25, 1953

    Heart Of Juliet Jones

    By Stan Drake
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  • Neck OCR: SUDDENLYGENE POVEY TAKES A BACKWARD STEP PLANTS HIS FEET FIRMLY AND SENDS A SOLID RIGHT FLUSH TO BEN'S JAW... CULLEN MCRPHY 8-25 WE'RE HEADING IN FOR A CLOSEUP NOWBOYS..LET'S HAVE SOME ACTION.GET CLOSER! HEADS TOGETHERTHE FIGHTERS SLASH AWAY ..BEN DELIBERATELY PULLING PUNCHES... Copr. 1933King F'eatures Syndica SUDDENLYGENE POVEY TAKES A BACKWARD STEP PLANTS HIS FEET FIRMLY AND SENDS A SOLID RIGHT FLUSH TO BEN'S JAW... CULLEN MCRPHY 8-25 WE'RE HEADING IN FOR A CLOSEUP NOWBOYS..LET'S HAVE SOME ACTION.GET CLOSER! HEADS TOGETHERTHE FIGHTERS SLASH AWAY ..BEN DELIBERATELY PULLING PUNCHES... Copr. 1933King F'eatures Syndica

    Tue, August 25, 1953

    Big Ben Bolt

    By Elliot Caplin & John Cullen Murphy
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  • Parallel OCR: NOT YET. THE MEN ON THE YACHT WILL GET A FEW NEWSPAPERS NEWSPAPERS ?/ GET SUSPICIOUS IF THIS MAN DOESN'T RETURN ON TIME 4. -WE'D CATCH THEM ALL EVENTUALLYaa BUT ITD BE TOO LATE TO SAVE DIANA. JAMESDRIVE TOTHE) WHAT DO YOU NEAREST STORE AND (WANT WITH THIS IS ALL MY FAULT. THERE WAS A STAND DOWN THE ROAR WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH NEWS- PAPERS? WILSON MCCOY 8-15 7 AND HURRY! YESSIR. CALL THE POLICE ! NOT YET. THE MEN ON THE YACHT WILL GET A FEW NEWSPAPERS NEWSPAPERS ?/ GET SUSPICIOUS IF THIS MAN DOESN'T RETURN ON TIME 4. -WE'D CATCH THEM ALL EVENTUALLYaa BUT ITD BE TOO LATE TO SAVE DIANA. JAMESDRIVE TOTHE) WHAT DO YOU NEAREST STORE AND (WANT WITH THIS IS ALL MY FAULT. THERE WAS A STAND DOWN THE ROAR WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH NEWS- PAPERS? WILSON MCCOY 8-15 7 AND HURRY! YESSIR. CALL THE POLICE !

    Tue, August 25, 1953

    The Phantom Vintage

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  • Parallel OCR: MEANWHILEYOUNG MYLES WANDERS THROUGH THE OLD BUILDING ! BRIEFLY JOHNNY SKETCHES THE DETAILS CF LAMORT'S CAPTURE IN LORIENT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! A SEARCH OF OUR RECORDS WILL SOON REVEAL THAT INFORMATIONM'SIEU! TRO TRWK AND YOU SAY M'SIEUTHAT THIS BANK ROBBER HAS RETURNED TO LORIENT TO RECLAIM HIS STOLEN MONEY? E WHAT A QUAINT JAILHOUSE! NOT AT ALL LIKE WHAT ONE MIGHT EXPECT! COULD BE FUN TO EXPLORE.... RIGHT! SINCE HE BURIED IT IN THE SAME BUILDING HE WAS CAPTURED INLIKELY THAT'S WHERE E HE IS NOW! KORLD RIGHTS RESEAVTED MEANWHILEYOUNG MYLES WANDERS THROUGH THE OLD BUILDING ! BRIEFLY JOHNNY SKETCHES THE DETAILS CF LAMORT'S CAPTURE IN LORIENT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! A SEARCH OF OUR RECORDS WILL SOON REVEAL THAT INFORMATIONM'SIEU! TRO TRWK AND YOU SAY M'SIEUTHAT THIS BANK ROBBER HAS RETURNED TO LORIENT TO RECLAIM HIS STOLEN MONEY? E WHAT A QUAINT JAILHOUSE! NOT AT ALL LIKE WHAT ONE MIGHT EXPECT! COULD BE FUN TO EXPLORE.... RIGHT! SINCE HE BURIED IT IN THE SAME BUILDING HE WAS CAPTURED INLIKELY THAT'S WHERE E HE IS NOW! KORLD RIGHTS RESEAVTED

    Mon, August 24, 1953

    Johnny Hazard

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  • Classic OCR: ...AND IN HARRISON GRAVES'ISOLATED LODGE... RIGHTRIR.LETS TAKE OFF! IF WE GET SEPARATEDTHE ADORESS WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS 741 MOUNTAIN TOP ROAD...IT'S MY HUNCH GRAVES HAS TAKEN JET THERE. I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH LADDY'S MURDER- AND YOU KNOW ITGRAVESI THE POLICE WON'T THINK SO WHEN I GET THROUGH... UNLESSYOU AGREE TO BECOME MRS. HARRISON GRAVES! IN LOWERING DARKNESSTWO CARS ROAR lour ON A NEW RACE.. AGAINST A RUTHLESS PLOTTERS TREACHERY... ...AND IN HARRISON GRAVES'ISOLATED LODGE... RIGHTRIR.LETS TAKE OFF! IF WE GET SEPARATEDTHE ADORESS WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS 741 MOUNTAIN TOP ROAD...IT'S MY HUNCH GRAVES HAS TAKEN JET THERE. I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH LADDY'S MURDER- AND YOU KNOW ITGRAVESI THE POLICE WON'T THINK SO WHEN I GET THROUGH... UNLESSMY DEARYOU AGREE TO BECOME MRS. HARRISON GRAVES! IN LOWERING DARKNESSTWO CARS ROAR lour ON A NEW RACE.. AGAINST A RUTHLESS PLOTTERS TREACHERY...

    Mon, August 24, 1953

    Rip Kirby

    By Alex Raymond
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  • Monochrome OCR: DEAR ME! LISTEN TO THISEDWIN;"BABY STOLEN FROM HOSPITAL. KIDNAPER LEAVES NO CLUES IN STEALING INFANT FROM MATERNITY WARD." LOOKJUNIOR! IT'S THE SAWYERS. THE PEOPLE WHOSE BABY WAS KIDNAPED. THAT'S THEM! NOT A CLUECHIEF. IT'S ONE OF THOSE HAPPENCONFOUND THINGS THAT JUST IT! WHO STOLE COULDN'T HAPPENt??0) THAT BABY? FIND THAT BABY! WHAT'D THE WHITE SOX DO? DEAR ME! LISTEN TO THISEDWIN;"BABY STOLEN FROM HOSPITAL. KIDNAPER LEAVES NO CLUES IN STEALING INFANT FROM MATERNITY WARD." LOOKJUNIOR! IT'S THE SAWYERS. THE PEOPLE WHOSE BABY WAS KIDNAPED. THAT'S THEM! NOT A CLUECHIEF. IT'S ONE OF THOSE HAPPENCONFOUND THINGS THAT JUST IT! WHO STOLE COULDN'T HAPPENBUT IT DIDt??0) THAT BABY? FIND THAT BABY! WHAT'D THE WHITE SOX DO?

    Mon, August 24, 1953

    Buz Sawyer

    By Roy Crane
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  • Font OCR: EVE! BABYWHEN DID YOU GET HOME ? JULIE!! POP'S COMING! HURRY UP AND GET THAT ICING ON THE CAKE!! HE'S AWAY AHEAD OF TIME... PERHAPS THE BANK GAVE HIM A FEW HOURS OFF TO CELEBRATE HIS THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY THERE! A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO! HAPPY ANNIVERSARYPOPS - OR DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT TODAY MAKES THIRTY YEARS YOU'VE BEEN COOPED UP AT THAT DREARY OLD BANK?! siduke 824 EVE! BABYWHEN DID YOU GET HOME ? JULIE!! POP'S COMING! HURRY UP AND GET THAT ICING ON THE CAKE!! HE'S AWAY AHEAD OF TIME... PERHAPS THE BANK GAVE HIM A FEW HOURS OFF TO CELEBRATE HIS THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY THERE! A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO! HAPPY ANNIVERSARYPOPS - OR DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT TODAY MAKES THIRTY YEARS YOU'VE BEEN COOPED UP AT THAT DREARY OLD BANK?! siduke 824

    Mon, August 24, 1953

    Heart Of Juliet Jones

    By Stan Drake
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  • Monochrome OCR: BEN BOXES LAZILYGENE POVEY.... CLEN -24 DUNNO..JUST GOT THE WORD SOMETHING WHY THE MOB SCENE AT THE BEN BOLT SET? GENE'S GOT SOMETHING SPECIAL SIMMERING.SAYS HE'LL SLIP ME A FIFTY FOR AN EXTRA PRINT OF THIS SCENE .. TAKE A WHIFF..SMELL SOME DOUBLE CROSS IN THE AIR...? BIG MIGHT BUST THERE . AND COULDI GO FOR SOME EXCITEMENT THAT DIDN'T COME OUT OF A MOTH-EATEN SCRIPT! BEN BOXES LAZILYUNAWARE OF THE HARDCOLD GLEAM IN THE EYES OF HIS OPPONENTGENE POVEY.... CLEN -24 DUNNO..JUST GOT THE WORD SOMETHING WHY THE MOB SCENE AT THE BEN BOLT SET? GENE'S GOT SOMETHING SPECIAL SIMMERING.SAYS HE'LL SLIP ME A FIFTY FOR AN EXTRA PRINT OF THIS SCENE .. TAKE A WHIFF..SMELL SOME DOUBLE CROSS IN THE AIR...? BIG MIGHT BUST THERE . AND COULDI GO FOR SOME EXCITEMENT THAT DIDN'T COME OUT OF A MOTH-EATEN SCRIPT!

    Mon, August 24, 1953

    Big Ben Bolt

    By Elliot Caplin & John Cullen Murphy
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  • Font OCR: AINT IT TIME CAP) YES. SEAS CHOPPyWHERE IS THE IT WAS «JUST OUT GOT BACK WITH THE OLD DAME AND THE DOUGH? THIS MAN CAP'IS THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS WHERE IT IS. HELL COME TO SOON WEVE GOT TO WORK FAST. BUT HE'LL MAKE IT. YACHTELSIE? THERE THEY MUST HAVE MOVED. WHEN AUNT ELSIE COMES BACK WITH THE RANSOMS THEYLL KILL HER 5 THIS IS A NIGHT- MARE - WILSONMCCOY 8-24 AINT IT TIME CAP) YES. SEAS CHOPPyWHERE IS THE IT WAS «JUST OUT GOT BACK WITH THE OLD DAME AND THE DOUGH? THIS MAN CAP'IS THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS WHERE IT IS. HELL COME TO SOON WEVE GOT TO WORK FAST. BUT HE'LL MAKE IT. YACHTELSIE? THERE THEY MUST HAVE MOVED. WHEN AUNT ELSIE COMES BACK WITH THE RANSOMS THEYLL KILL HER 5 THIS IS A NIGHT- MARE - WILSONMCCOY 8-24

    Mon, August 24, 1953

    The Phantom Vintage

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  • Sleeve OCR: YOU SAY PROFESSOR PEDDLE ASKED YOU TO RUSH UP HERE TO SEE A NEW METHOD OF TRAINING HE'S DEVELOPEDSPIDER ? YEAHBEN..AN' HE SOUNDED KINDA EXCITED ABOUT IT... ME ? I CAN'T THINK O'A NICER PLACE T RUSH TO! BIG BEN BOLT YOU MAY COME UP NOWGENTLEMEN. EULDING TOHN MUR HE'S PROBABLY DISCOVERED SOMETHIN' TERRIFIC -LIKE SHADOW BOXIN' ! I DO BEUEVE I'VE DISCOVERED A METHOD TO COUNTERACT THE LOW LEFT HOOK! YEAH? COME IN ! ITN YOU MEAN STEPPING INBRINGING YER OWN RIGHT ACROSS LIKE THISPROF ? I SOLVED IT ALGEBRAICALLY! YOU SEEALL ONE NEEDS IS A QUICK CALCULATION OF THE TORQUE REALIZED BY THE FORWARD MOTION OF GAMMA SQUAREDDIVIDED BY THE SPEED OF A FALLING OBJECTNATURALLY! HEAVENS NO! NATURALLY! AND THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT ITIS YOU MAKE IT ALL SOUND SO SIMPLE! NEW TON'S XY 14581. LAW TION NEXT WEEK- THE PROFESSOR DONS THE GLOVES AGAIN ELA TIVITY ULLN X-23 COPRWORLD ENGIITS EESEHVEIR YOU SAY PROFESSOR PEDDLE ASKED YOU TO RUSH UP HERE TO SEE A NEW METHOD OF TRAINING HE'S DEVELOPEDSPIDER ? YEAHBEN..AN' HE SOUNDED KINDA EXCITED ABOUT IT... ME ? I CAN'T THINK O'A NICER PLACE T RUSH TO! BIG BEN BOLT YOU MAY COME UP NOWGENTLEMEN. EULDING TOHN MUR HE'S PROBABLY DISCOVERED SOMETHIN' TERRIFIC -LIKE SHADOW BOXIN' ! I DO BEUEVE I'VE DISCOVERED A METHOD TO COUNTERACT THE LOW LEFT HOOK! YEAH? COME IN ! ITN YOU MEAN STEPPING INBRINGING YER OWN RIGHT ACROSS LIKE THISPROF ? I SOLVED IT ALGEBRAICALLY! YOU SEEALL ONE NEEDS IS A QUICK CALCULATION OF THE TORQUE REALIZED BY THE FORWARD MOTION OF GAMMA SQUAREDDIVIDED BY THE SPEED OF A FALLING OBJECTNATURALLY! HEAVENS NO! NATURALLY! AND THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT ITIS YOU MAKE IT ALL SOUND SO SIMPLE! NEW TON'S XY 14581. LAW TION NEXT WEEK- THE PROFESSOR DONS THE GLOVES AGAIN ELA TIVITY ULLN X-23 COPRK ING VEATUREN ATNURATE teeWORLD ENGIITS EESEHVEIR

    Sun, August 23, 1953

    Big Ben Bolt

    By Elliot Caplin & John Cullen Murphy
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  • Parallel OCR: Burz SAuyEr NO LUCKORVIE. THE STORE DOÉSN'T HAVE THE RIGHT SIZE BOLT. BUT WE'VE GOT TO FIX THIS TRACTOR sO WE CAN SET OUT OUR TOMATO PLANTS. NO WONDER OUR EXPENSES ARE SKY-HIGH. IMAGINE HAVING TO DRIVE A TRUCK ALL THE WAY TO PALM BEACH TO BUy A NICKEL BOLT. S MEY KRAZY JOHN'S ES USED CARS WHAT WE NEED IS A EVERY CAR ON THIS LOT UNDERTIO0BUT WE CAN'T LIGHT CAR. STOP AND SHOP! FASTEST DEAL IN BARGAINS GALORE! WALK IN- RIDE OUT! AFFORD A--- A--- TOWN. FEATURING HIS PAL ROSCO SWEENEY By ROY CRANE - THEN HERE'S A SMALLER ONE. TIPTOP) SHAPE. DRIVEN ONLY 87000 MILES. I HAD IN MIND A SMALL CAR. SOMETHING ECONOMICAL. OF COURSE IM NOT GOING TO BUY ONEBUT IT WON'T HURT TO LOOK. NIX! IT'D USE ON THE LOT. AN IMPORTED SPUMONI.) MORE GAS THAN MV TRUCK. NOW HERE'S THE CLASSIEST CAR ...... -.. FAST DEALS COST HEW 12.000 MOW 99 HEREGIMME THE BOLT. I'VE BROTHERHAVE I GOT IT! IS IT SMALL! IS IT A BARGAIN! IS IT SPORTY! A $5.000 CUSTOM-BUILT MIDGET RACER FOR ONLY $89.) WHAT'S THE CATCHS MISTERIF THIS CUTIE WAS A TWO- I COULD SELL IT FOR A THOUSAND DOLLARS. HOT DINGIES.. AND IS IT A BARGAIN! THINK OF THE MONEY WE'LL SAVE ON GAS! NO MORE HAVING TO DRIVE A TWO-TON TRUCK TO PICK UP A J BEEN WAITING TWO-OUNCE BOLTST WELLBY DANG! I COMPLETELY ALL AFTERNOON. FORGOT THE BOLT! YOU EATERBOUGHT IT? HMMM... AND ONLY $89 8-23 COPR TRAWORLD KIGHTS KESERVED Burz SAuyEr NO LUCKORVIE. THE STORE DOÉSN'T HAVE THE RIGHT SIZE BOLT. BUT WE'VE GOT TO FIX THIS TRACTOR sO WE CAN SET OUT OUR TOMATO PLANTS. NO WONDER OUR EXPENSES ARE SKY-HIGH. IMAGINE HAVING TO DRIVE A TRUCK ALL THE WAY TO PALM BEACH TO BUy A NICKEL BOLT. S MEY KRAZY JOHN'S ES USED CARS WHAT WE NEED IS A EVERY CAR ON THIS LOT UNDERTIO0BUT WE CAN'T LIGHT CAR. STOP AND SHOP! FASTEST DEAL IN BARGAINS GALORE! WALK IN- RIDE OUT! AFFORD A--- A--- TOWN. FEATURING HIS PAL ROSCO SWEENEY By ROY CRANE - THEN HERE'S A SMALLER ONE. TIPTOP) SHAPE. DRIVEN ONLY 87000 MILES. I HAD IN MIND A SMALL CAR. SOMETHING ECONOMICAL. OF COURSE IM NOT GOING TO BUY ONEBUT IT WON'T HURT TO LOOK. NIX! IT'D USE ON THE LOT. AN IMPORTED SPUMONI.) MORE GAS THAN MV TRUCK. NOW HERE'S THE CLASSIEST CAR ...... -.. FAST DEALS COST HEW 12.000 MOW 99 HEREGIMME THE BOLT. I'VE BROTHERHAVE I GOT IT! IS IT SMALL! IS IT A BARGAIN! IS IT SPORTY! A $5.000 CUSTOM-BUILT MIDGET RACER FOR ONLY $89.) WHAT'S THE CATCHS MISTERIF THIS CUTIE WAS A TWO- I COULD SELL IT FOR A THOUSAND DOLLARS. HOT DINGIES.. AND IS IT A BARGAIN! THINK OF THE MONEY WE'LL SAVE ON GAS! NO MORE HAVING TO DRIVE A TWO-TON TRUCK TO PICK UP A J BEEN WAITING TWO-OUNCE BOLTST WELLBY DANG! I COMPLETELY ALL AFTERNOON. FORGOT THE BOLT! YOU EATERBOUGHT IT? HMMM... AND ONLY $89 8-23 COPR TRAKING FEATURES SYNDKATEWORLD KIGHTS KESERVED

    Sun, August 23, 1953

    Buz Sawyer

    By Roy Crane
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