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Comic Cavalcade #7 is an issue of the series Comic Cavalcade (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1944.
Synopsis for Wonder Woman: "The Vulture's Nest"
Diana stays the night with Etta at Holliday College and is woken by Mimi for a morning ride. The day's newspaper top story is that people are being abducted by giant vultures. On their ride those giant vultures try to take the girls, and while Di is able to rescue Etta the others are taken to an unknown location. Diana resolves to find them by setting herself up to be taken and lassoing one of the birds to control it, but the bird grabs the lasso and to her surprise gives her an order in English. Upon arriving at the hidden cave base of the vultures Diana discovers that they're the missing people in flight suits under the mental command of the Vulture King.
Appearing in Wonder Woman: "The Vulture's Nest"
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Synopsis for "Scribbly"
Scribbly taunts the Kids that they ate Mexican Jumping Beans for their chili dinner, claiming tomorrow they will become rubber-like and bounce out of bed, though the Kids are alack to believe it and Ma Hunkel gives him one of Uncle Gus' nightshirts to change into for the night. Dinky punches Scribbly off-panel while Ma cooks breakfast telling them to keep down the noise. Scribbly tries to wallop his brother with a pillow and Sisty stops him by jumping off a bureau and landing on the back of Scribbly's head, smashing her mother's bed in the process. Scribbly is naturally blamed about this and tries to escape through the window, but trips and falls on his ass, somehow rockets into the air and then falls on top of Ma as she leans out to see if he's okay. He rockets back into the air again and lands on top of Ma's head again, but luckily not a third time as Scribbly bounces all around town and Dinky realizes they did eat Mexican Jumping Beans and Dinky declares they must call a doctor. They call a surly doctor who says Mexican Jumping Beanitis is not a real thing… until he sees Scribbly destroying property outside with his bouncing. Ma awakens minutes later to find the police, the fire department and three ambulance crews are trying to catch him. Ma grows impatient, saying she used normal kidney beans in her chili and fashions a lariat out of clothesline, seizing Scribbly by the throat and sitting on him. The Doctor tries to run in, but Ma shows that there was just a bed-spring attached to Scribbly from her broken bed causing all this and spanks Scribbly in public, then turns on her kids, realizing they were the cause of all this. Everyone laughs at them.
Appearing in "Scribbly"
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Synopsis for Etta Candy and her Holliday Girls: "Hard Candy's Ranch"
Etta Candy's Father, Hard Candy, picks up some money from a recent cattle drive in cash due to the bank being closed. Banker Tough Lucky offers they hold the money for him until the bank is open, but Hard says his safe back at the Bar-L Ranch is uncrackable, much to the interest of known bandit Slick Slippery, listening to them from the window. Slick jumps a fence with his horse to get to the Bar-L as quick as possible to try to hack it. Meanwhile, Etta offers she and the Holliday Girls can guard him on the way back to the ranch, but Hard refuses, since he's no sissy. Etta immediately wanders off to the Kewpies' Candy Shoppe to get some more candy. Therein she finds today's special is on the Cupid's Love Drops, which purport to make a woman irresistible and filled with ambrosia. Etta asks if she looks any different to the other Holliday Girls, who say she just looks fatter because she's increased her candy eating lately. Etta says they're just jealous of her allure and that she'll get a man yet! They all soon arrive at the Ranch and the Girls complain there are no men to flirt with there. However, one of the Girls quickly finds Slick and they drag him out to judge an impromptu talent show to show who's got “the most zam!” Slick notices Etta and assumes her being fat is the same as her being stupid and decides that she wins so he can try to ditch more easily. Etta thinks the candies must be working, since Slick offers they should go for a ride together. The other Girls wonder if the Cupid Love Drops really do work! A minute later, Hard rides out and tells the Girls that Slick got around the problem of cracking his safe by just putting a gun in his face and they ride out to track him down. Slick tries to take Etta hostage, but she shoves her Love Drops in his face and she jokes that she can't capture a man with her charm, but “if he's a crook I never miss!”
Appearing in Etta Candy and her Holliday Girls: "Hard Candy's Ranch"
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- "Slick" Slippery
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- Tough Lucky (Bank Manager)
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- Texas
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Synopsis for Hop Harrigan: "Against the Bloody Dragon"
Appearing in Hop Harrigan: "Against the Bloody Dragon"
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- William "Lil Will" (Single appearance; dies)
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Synopsis for Green Lantern: "The Fantastic Fate of the Fraternity Felons"
Doiby Dickles finds a strange robbery going on, and after belting several of the thieves, realizes their guns are only water pistols and it was only an initiation prank for new fraternity members. New members of Doiby's own old fraternity, Eta Pi, in fact. Alan Scott lends him a suit for a fancy reunion dinner, but as soon as Doiby leaves, Scott reads a headline about a fraternity initiation prank being used as a cover for a robbery.
At the dinner, the members bring up an old promise they made to share all their possessions. They turn to Doiby and ask him to contribute by telling him to share Green Lantern's secret identity. Before Doiby's implicit honesty can ruin his friend's crimefighting career, Green Lantern bursts in and quickly sends the other frat brothers packing. Doiby's immensely indignant that Green Lantern would hurt his friends, but Green Lantern points out some holes in their presentation, like the wrong Greek letters on their pennant. They run outside but are ambushed by the fake frat brothers, fed into a garbage truck and seemingly crushed, but Green Lantern's powers have secretly saved them.
The two heroes are dumped into an incinerator and almost burnt alive waiting until the crooks are out of sight to start pursuit. GL and Doiby brawl with the fake fraternity inside a department store, and Green Lantern wins the day by refracting his beam into every diamond in the jewelry department, blinding the crooks. With the criminal element seen to, Green Lantern administers a harsh spanking to Doiby for refusing to accept the fake frat's deception. To add insult to injury, the real Eta Pi fraternity expels Doiby for associating with criminals.
Appearing in Green Lantern: "The Fantastic Fate of the Fraternity Felons"
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Synopsis for Black Pirate: "A Ring for a King"
Jon Valor and Donna await audience with the Queen, only for the Chancellor of England to tell him that… the Queen is dead! Her final wish was for him to send the Black Pirate to him and a shifty opportunist who is an evil bald man wearing a ruff and with a pointed beard, Lord Fitzmaul, insists that he'll figure out Black Pirate's mission and somehow use it to start a revolution that will put him on the throne. Elsewhere, Jon decides that the Black Pirate himself will visit Lord William Cecil, the Baron Burghley and takes off to “get him.” Soon, the Black Pirate meets Lord Burghley and he says the Queen's last words were praising the Black Pirate having never failed the Kingdom. Thus, he is given the most important mission: to deliver a ring to King James of Scotland, who is to inherit the throne, Son of the late Queen Mary. He is told to get a fast horse from an inn called “The Lion” to get there fastest, but Fitzmaul overhears this and orders his men to go seize the ring, since it now makes the wearer the Monarch of the Realm, arriving at the Lion Tavern to ambush our hero.
Jon says goodbye to Donna and tells her to have Justin meet him at the Lion Tavern too. Thereabouts, the Black Pirate waits for his son to show up, knowing he'll need his haymaker progeny for the long dangerous trek to Scotland. Entering the tavern, Lord Fitzmaul's goons pull their blades, only for the Black Pirate to take out one with a stool to the head and runs a second goon through. The third spy tries to sneak up on him while he's stabbing the second goon, but Justin sees him from the window and leaps through it to Drop Kick him in the head. The Black Pirate interrogates the awake one and finds out that troops await him and Elizabeth's Ring at the seaside castle of Lord Fitzmaul.The Black Pirate boldly says he won't kill an unarmed man, but he's going to make sure he's knocked out until he's far gone, punching him out. The Black Pirate offers that he's going to Scotland with the Ring and orders Justin to take his ship up to Castle Fitzmaul and keep them busy from planning revolt on the Crown. He soon does so and promises that if they send boats after them, they'll sink them too! Hours later, they arrive and find Lord Fitzmaul putting up the white flag, then firing on them when they're in range. The Jester jumps overboard to get to help. The Black Pirate arrives at Edinburgh Castle and King James of Scotland soon becomes King James of the United Kingdoms, but while riding back, encounters the Jester and learns that Justin and the crew of his ship are being taken to Castle Fitzmaul and the Black Pirate takes off to get it. He realizes that he can't get back to King James in time to not save his son and crew, so he takes off and the Jester and a newer fatter clown have a fake fight, mocking Lord Burghley, which gets them an easy in at the Castle Fitzmaul.
However, once inside, they reveal the fat clown was the Black Pirate in disguise and they start cleaning out and puts Lord Fitzmaul in a Giant Swing. They march him into this dungeons to force him to open them and free their crew and we find that Justin is entirely green for no reason. On the way out though, Fitzmaul wrests from their grip, raising an alarm. Fitzmaul is dragged on to the Black Pirate's ship and turns him over to the newly crowned King James I. Later, in London, Lord Burghley tells Jon Valor that only one person is missing from this banquet: The Black Pirate, and speaks highly of his works. Jon calls them unbelievable! But Burghley says he won't hear a bad word against him!
Appearing in Black Pirate: "A Ring for a King"
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- Queen Elizabeth I (Dies)
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Synopsis for Red, White, and Blue: "Another V-Mail Letter from Whitey"
Appearing in Red, White, and Blue: "Another V-Mail Letter from Whitey"
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Synopsis for Flash: "The Man with the Notorious Nose"
It's night in Keystone City as a man with a ridiculously large nose bemoans how it makes life difficult, always smelling everything. Nearby, we see the Three Dimwits are fishing and Winky politely tells him to shut up about food because they haven't eaten in two days. The man with the nose points out he can smell where the fish are. Blinky notes he once knew a man who saw spots in front of his eyes. Noddy asks why he didn't just buy glasses, but Blinky points out that he was only seeing them because he washed leopards at the zoo. He uses the Toucan Sam Method to help them find a better catch of fish, but he also points out he can smell everything, even the contents of their pockets, all their clothes. The Dimwits offer for his help, they'll take him to stop the smelling.
Meanwhile, Jay Garrick has created a perfume for Joan as a birthday present, then sets it right next to a bottle of deadly acid. Noddy and Blinky unhelpfully call their new friend Joe Nose and point out Boy… does he smell! We find the Dimwits came up with the moderately decent solution of clothespin, but Jay finds out that his nose is powerful enough that he can identify the contents of the two bottles and their composition by scent. Miles away, known gangster with a squashed head “Skunky” Jones reads a new issue of Omni about a new experimental type of acid, offering they could steal it from Jay Garrick that eats through anything like steel dials on a safe! They worry about the Flash showing up, but Skunky is clear that the Flash won't just happen to know that they're visiting Jay Garrick! Back at the lab, Jay points out Joe Nose can get an incredibly good job working at a perfume company or coffee or tea company that needs good smelling people. The Dimwits easily spot several goons trying to climb into their windows and they pull guns on them. Jay tells them the acid is in the No. 22 bottle and Jay worries as they've kidnapped Mortimer Appleby (the Joe Nose in question) to hold as hostage to make sure he isn't lying. Luckily Jay quickly changes into the Flash and Noddy tells Jay quickly to get him. But when he looks back at him, he sees the Flash is on his way out. Mortimer tells the goons that the Flash is on to them (since he can smell the burning ozone) around wears he runs. He says he can smell inside his hideout are “a lot of gambling devices” The Flash manages to whirlwind into the a box of chips and a roulette table. Skunky keeps his own gun on Mortimer, moves them to the back and pulls a fuse out of the box, trying to escape through a backdoor to his car, realizing Mortimer is a helpful addition to his gang. The Scarlet Speedster finds that Skunky is gone with Mortimer, but swears he will find him yet.
Meanwhile, Joan Williams arrives at Jay's lab and finds the Dimwits hanging around, saying he's been gone since the Flash showed up to fight some goons at the lab, with Joan implying that Jay won't be back if the Flash is going after those goons then. Winky hands her what he thinks is the perfume Jay made and she tries it on. The Dimwits leave for a moment as Joan accidentally melts her jacket off and needs to take a long shower, furious at Jay Garrick for this. The Dimwits presume that she forgot her “perfume” there and struggle to hail a taxi before they try to release just a bit of perfume into the air, since the taxi smells horrible. Noddy pours some on the floor and it melts a giant hole in the floor, destroying the cab and the Dimwits flee quickly. The Flash spots them while on the way to finding Skunky and the cabbie tells him how he has a giant hole in his car. The Flash says that was Jay Garrick's acid and if he goes back to his lab, he can get reparations for it there, despite the Dimwits actively talking shit at him from behind the Flash. They bicker about how Joan found the acid first and the Flash assumes Joan is fine, since the Dimwits seem to have the acid now. They recall Mortimer likes corned beef, so if they just get some, he'll smell it and know they're there.
Mortimer is forced to check the contents of a safe, which he says has $20,000 in two stacks, but they smell like counterfeit. Some other money is also there. However, Skunky is alack to find pouring perfume on the lock doesn't do too much. Unfortunately, the perfume is strong enough that Mortimer can't smell the corned beef and the Dimwits walk around long enough that they eat all the corned beef. The Flash, luckily, is able to smell the perfume until he finds the safe and finds the perfume is still wet, meaning Skunky hasn't been here. Joan Williams is filed with a righteous fury and intent on killing Jay Garrick. Luckily, the Dimwits see Mortimer in Skunky's car and try to offer he come with them to see him, but Skunky instead “offers” they drive there, which they seem to accept. Mortimer tries to tell Skunky that Joan Williams is on the other side of the door and has a silk umbrella, but Skunky says he doesn't care, leading Mortimer to getting knocked out with an umbrella to the head. The Flash dashes in and soon throws one goon into a chemical sink, tosses one on to a weighing machine and traps Skunky in a window when he tries to climb out one and they're arrested off-panel.
Winky starts to fiddle with a Bunsen burner and starts trying to burn a rubber hose, which seems to luckily not be the gas line to the burner, but does fill the lab with the smell of burning rubber. Mortimer explains, elated, that he can't smell anything anymore, seemingly having suffered brain damage from that umbrella strike! His life and sanity are saved!
Appearing in Flash: "The Man with the Notorious Nose"
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- "Skunky" Jones
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- Mortimer Appleby
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Notes
- Published quarterly by Gainlee Publishing Co. This 84-page magazine sold for fifteen cents a copy, in an era when almost all other comics were 64 pages, for ten cents.
Trivia
- Despite claiming that Eta Pi is spelled "EΠ," it is actually spelled "HΠ" (since E means Epsilon)
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