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Pep Comics #48 (1944) · The Collector

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Pep Comics (1940)
#48

Archie#48

Pep Comics

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Pep Comics #48

The Curse of the Black Monkey / The Corpse on the Checkerboard / Camera Bugs / Special Communique #14 / The Great Genghis Khan

Publisher: Archie
Cover date: May 1944
On sale: Mar 5, 1944
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 60

Key issue

1st appearance of Genghis Khan

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Credits

Writers: Ed Goggin, Larry Harris, Carl Hubbell
Pencillers: Harry Sahle, Clem Weisbecker, Larry Harris, Carl Hubbell
Inkers: Pen Shumaker, Virginia Drury, Larry Harris, Carl Hubbell
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Grand Comics Database issue 3590

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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.

Harry Sahle

Editor

Harry Shorten

Characters

Genghis Khan· 1st appearance
Archie Andrews
Armand De Latour
Betty Cooper
Billy Grayson
Captain Commando
Catfish Joe
Dustin Simmons
Dusty
Flatbush
Fred Andrews
Joe Higgins
John Grayson
Jughead Jones
Matthew "Kip" Burland
Miss Grundy
Mr. Weatherbee
Percy
The Black Hood
The Shield
Veronica Lodge

Teams: The Boy Soldiers

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