Comic Cavalcade #8 is an issue of the series Comic Cavalcade (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1944.
Synopsis for Wonder Woman: "The Amazon Bride"
Diana ends up drugged after she flirtatiously tells Steve she likes him being forceful while on a date and he has her drink his coffee, that he doesn't know a gangster, Casino, had drugged. She has a dream in which the Holliday Girls tie her up with her lasso and have her marry Steve under their command. She soon wakes up and saves Steve from Casino, telling him that an Amazon marrying is only a dream.
Appearing in Wonder Woman: "The Amazon Bride"
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- Steve Trevor
- Holliday Girls (In dream sequence only)
- Etta Candy (In dream sequence only)
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Synopsis for "Mutt & Jeff"
(newspaper strip reprints)
Appearing in "Mutt & Jeff"
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- Mutt
- Jeff
Synopsis for "The Twain Shall Meet"
Appearing in "The Twain Shall Meet"
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- Bill Thorne
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- Harry
- Kao Ta Hung (Chinese woman)
- Kao Tse Tung (her father)
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Synopsis for Green Lantern: "Is the Kid a Killer?"
Father of ten-year-old rodeo star Kit Cody asks his old friend Alan Scott for help: he's seen Kit in the company of some very unsavory types, and is afraid his son's getting involved with crime. Alan follows Cody and does indeed see him hanging around some gangland types, but doesn't try to fight back when they spot him because he's tangled with them as Green Lantern and doesn't want to take the chance of them recognizing his fighting style out of uniform.
Later Kit himself comes to Alan Scott's residence, as he's handing out free magazines door-to-door. After the pages are opened he and Doiby are knocked out by a strange gas, and wake up to find the house robbed. A curious clue is left behind: the free magazine, whose pages are now blank. GL and Doiby track the gangsters to their hideout and capture them, then the hero explains to his sidekick what was going on: the ink on those free magazines was made of chloral hydrate, which evaporated and became knockout gas when the pages were exposed to warm air. The young boys handing out the magazines were just pawns, and Kit Cody's not becoming involved with crime. He just wanted to hand out the most magazines to win a puzzling prize: a free cowboy costume.
Appearing in Green Lantern: "Is the Kid a Killer?"
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- Lisper
- Lisper's gang (common criminals)
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- Kit Cody
- his father, Pop Cody
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- Green Lantern Ring
- Green Flame of Life Power Battery
- Chloral hydrate
- Free Magazines with Chloral Hydrate Ink
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Synopsis for "Heroes in Dungarees"
Appearing in "Heroes in Dungarees"
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- Statue of Liberty (In a vision)
- 1937-1943
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- Booker T. Washington (ship)
Synopsis for Hop Harrigan: "The Psalm of K Ration"
Appearing in Hop Harrigan: "The Psalm of K Ration"
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Synopsis for Picture Stories from History: "The Story of Prince Henry"
At the dawn of the 15th Century, great riches of the Far East were available, but an arduous path overland like that of Marco Polo would be a foolish thing, prompting Prince Henry of Portugal to find another route to the Indies, a sea route! The King refuses to let him sail, as he’s not a trained sailor, but Prince Henry corrects that he wants to create a school for mariners, navigators, shipwrights and other mariner training so they can go about finding the sea route to the Indies. Retiring to an observatory on the southern tip of the Kingdom and took his disciples to learn the art of mariners. He offers that they go south around Africa, but is told that Cape Verde, off the west of Africa, is dangerous and has waters so hot they could boil a man alive! Prince Henry notes that the elderly explorer Dinis Dias sailed across Cape Verde without failing and that he shall find men to do the same! When their ships return, the explorers note that there is plenty of ivory, gold and lots of slaves. As the years progress, people find that the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople proves the need for a sea route and they now decide to head farther and farther south. Prince Henry died without his ambition unfulfilled, but King John II of Portugal continued his quest. By 1487, 27 years after his death, Bartholomew Diaz would round the African Cape, naming it the “Cape of Storms” due to the heavy storms there. King John II instead offers that they give it a more encouraging name to get people there: “The Cape of Good Hope.” Once they were able to surpass the Cape of Good Hope, they were closer to India than before… only for another one to change history by aiming west… Cristoforo Columbo!
Appearing in Picture Stories from History: "The Story of Prince Henry"
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- Columbus (Mentioned only)
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Synopsis for Flash: "The Man Who Tilted Windmills"
In 1680, King Boris rewards Nathaniel Nugget with a barony for picking a piece of thread off his royal coat and ever since, the Nugget family has tried to validate their title by working towards great causes, all of which failed. In the present, Prof. Nathaniel Nugget VII is uninterested in following the family tradition. At the same time, scientist Oliver Hatch creates "fourth dimensional forceps" that can reach through solid matter and would revolutionize medicine... if anyone took them seriously. Unfortunately, known gangster "Slip" Sanders overhears some nurses talking about it and attacks him with his goons in the park, only for Prof. Nugget and the Flash (who heard about the invention.) Slip manages to use the forceps to throw his gun at the Flash's head and escapes with Hatch in tow. Days later, they've managed to use them to rob safety deposit boxes and plan on stealing from the University safe due to a large million-dollar cash donation. The Flash tries to fight them off in the library, but Slip dumps a bookcase on him and escapes, leaving Hatch behind. Prof. Nugget again tries to insert himself into stopping the goons (mostly because he's run a big advertising campaign for Hatch's new invention,) dressing up in an antiquated suit of armor and a lance from the University Museum and riding a stolen horse from a milkman's cart to resemble Don Quixote. The Flash saves him from running into danger by running him into Sanders' cars, then punches them out when they escape to a windmill, but the forceps are thrown while the controls are on, making them slip into the fourth dimension, never to be seen again. The Flash arrests the goons, but Hatch is upset, since he can't replicate the one-of-a-kind forceps and Prof. Nugget decides to abandon his hasty ideals of "earning" his barony.
Appearing in Flash: "The Man Who Tilted Windmills"
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- "Slip" Sanders
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- Professor Nathaniel Nugget VII
- King Boris (Flashback only)
- Baron Nathaniel Nugget (Flashback only)
- Aaron Burr (Flashback only)
- Oliver Hatch, scientist
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- Hatch's Fourth Dimensional Forceps (Destroyed)
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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.
- Hop Harrigan: "Against the Bloody Dragon" is reprinted in G.I. Combat #152.
- There is a one-page story with Green Lantern named "Doiby Dickles goes on a case: Paper salvage!".
Trivia
- The Psalm 23 is transcribed in Hop Harrigan's story.
- "The Twain Shall Meet" story was prepared in cooperation with East and West Association. In later issues, the feature becomes Johnny Everyman stories.
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