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Sensation Comics 6

SENSATION COMICS #6

Cover Date: June 1942
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Harry G. Peter


Story: [No Title] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCharles Moulton
ArtHarry G. Peter
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Wonder Woman (receives her Magic Lasso from her mother and Aphrodite and Athena; next in Justice League of America #193/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Major Trevor (promoted to the rank of Major)
Lila Brown (in between issues #3 and #11)
Colonel Darnell

Villain(s):

Baroness Von Gunther (last in issue #4; disguises herself as Lady Chumpley)

Other Character(s):

Queen Hippolyte (last in All-Star Comics #8/3; next in Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #229)
Aphrodite (next in Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #2)
Pallas Athena
Jumpa (Princess Diana's favorite Kanga)
Mala (last in All-Star Comics #8/3; next in Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #3)
Metala (first appearance; head metalworker of Paradise Island; creates Wonder Woman's Magic Lasso from Hippolyta's Girldle)

Location(s):

Washington, DC
Paradise Island

Comment(s):

The lettering in this story is done with an Ames Lettering Guide, probably by Peter, but this is not confirmed.
Charles Moulton is the pen name of psychologist William Moulton Marston.
The invisible ray used by Baroness Von Gunther is very similar to the ray used by The Mist

Story Reprinted in:

100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-14 (March 1973)
Wonder Woman Archives #1 (1998)


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Second Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StorySheldon Moldoff
ArtSheldon Moldoff
LetteringSheldon Moldoff
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Black Pirate

Supporting Character(s):

Dona Bonita Valor
Justin Valor (now age 12)

Villain(s):

Don Muerte (first appearance; a minister of the court of King Phillip; drives Valor and his family from Spain; dies)
King Louis of France (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

King Phillip of Spain

Location(s):

Spain (in the 16th Century)

Comment(s):

This story takes place some time between 1582 and 1584.


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Third Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCharles Reizenstein
ArtHal Sharp
LetteringHal Sharp
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Mister Terrific (knows how to operate newspaper press and pick pockets)

Supporting Character(s):

Wanda Wilson (now a blonde)

Villain(s):

con men (first appearance for all)


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Fourth Story: "O'Malley Says Keep 'Em Flying" (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryIrwin Hasen
ArtIrwin Hasen
LetteringIrwin Hasen
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

"Long John" O'Malley

Supporting Character(s):

Inspector Appleton (first appearance; a huge man with very little brain)
Whistling Willie

Villain(s):

Philly Mignon, Chickenfat Charlie and Fricassee Frayne (first appearance for all; three crooks trying to kill Blewey)

Other Character(s):

D.A. Blewey (first appearance; fighting District Attorney and a friend of O'Malley's)

Comment(s):

This story takes place on a Tuesday.


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHoward Purcell
LetteringHoward Purcell
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Grim Ghost (briefly possesses Ludwig Luther)

Supporting Character(s):

Deborah Wallace

Villain(s):

Nazis (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Ludwig Luther (first appearance; an elderly German scientist against the Nazi regime; dies)

Location(s):

England
Germany


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtJon L. Blummer
LetteringJon L. Blummer
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Little Boy Blue

Supporting Character(s):

Blue Boys:
Tubby
Toughy

Villain(s):

Slug Ginnis (first appearance; uses a fake fainting spell to steal evidence against him)

Other Character(s):

District Attorney Dan Rogers

Location(s):

Big City


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Seventh Story: "The Laughing Ghost Walked!!!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtIrwin Hasen
LetteringIrwin Hasen
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Wildcat (next in Justice League of America #193/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Stretch Skinner
Joan Fortune

Villain(s):

thieves (first appearance for all; attempt to run a ship aground to steal its shipment of gold)


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