Pep Comics (May 1944), #48

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Untitled Story

Story featuring Archie, Story featuring The Shield

Storyline: The Shield, Betty, and Veronica catch something unexpected while fishing.

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The Curse of the Black Monkey

Story featuring The Shield

Storyline: The Jinx is a blind black monkey, surviving owner after owner managing to survive until it comes to Dusty, the Shield’s kid partner. The Shield discovers through an anthropologist friend that the monkey is an idol of sorts to the Thuggi cult of India and represents all evil and bad luck to all but the Thuggi. Higgins arranges for the monkey to be sent to Japan.

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Special Communique #14

Story featuring Captain Commando

Storyline: Alastair Morganbilt joins the army as a prissy gentleman but leaves in a body bag as a fighting man.

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The Boy Soldiers
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The Corpse on the Checkerboard

Story featuring Black Hood

Storyline: The Black Hood uses the pieces left on a checker board to solve a murder that's meant to look like a suicide.

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Camera Bugs

Story featuring Archie

Storyline: Archie gets a new camera and starts taking pictures that get him in trouble.

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The Hick Cop
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The Great Genghis Khan

Story featuring Marco Loco

Storyline: Marco Loco meets Genghis Khan and tries to stop his wedding.

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The Jumping Potion

Story featuring Catfish Joe

Storyline: Two mad scientists give Catfish Joe pills that make him able to jump really far.

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Untitled Story

Storyline: Letter from Joe Higgins [aka The Shield] to recycle paper to help the war drive. Also includes coupon to join the Shield G-Man Club.

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Money

Storyline: Promo to win a subscription to Pep Comics or a War Stamp by writing a letter about what your favourite character is.

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Storyline: Promo announcing that Li'l Chief Bugaboo will start appearing in Jolly Jingles Comics as of issue 13.

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Storyline: A maze with a copy of Pep Comics at the center, a man holding a sign with scrambled letters and how to draw a face.

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Storyline: A witch looks in her crystal ball and sees a new comic called Black Hood now on sale.

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Untitled Story

Storyline: A man with an MLJ Logo for a head is the skipper of a rowing crew where other MLJ Comics are the rowers.

Do You Know???

Storyline: Four trick questions and answers including how to tell the left bank of a river from the right bank.

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Prizes for You ~~ Come an' Get 'em

Storyline: Ad for prizes for delivering Collier's magazine.

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Story featuring Animal-Antix

Storyline: Three fun facts about animals as submitted by readers. Address says to submit to "Catfish Joe", so presumably this was a sub-feature of that strip.