The Jack Of Spades was a superhero mysteriously given life from a playing card when a man died.

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No explanation is given for why a superhero would spring from a playing card.

Also no explanation is given for why his costume doesn't look more like the costume on the card.

When he's not fighting crime he returns to a deck of playing cards and can come out of any deck of cards in the world, (rather like Centaur's Man Of War who could come and go from any explosion), but despite this isolated time in our world he always knows what he needs to know when fighting crime, like identities or back stories.


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Mercuro has created a race of hawkmen whom he has kidnap three nurses & he turns one into a hawkwoman, although her fate is unknown since we never see her for the rest of the story. Even when the other two nurses are returned to the ship they were taken from they say nothing about the third nurse.

Page 23*, Panel 2. One of the hawkmen refers to Jack Of Spades by that name, despite Jack never identifying himself on-panel to the hawkmen.

* No, the story isn't that long, the comic numbers the pages for the whole comic not individual stories.

The Black Orchid was Diane Dawn who worked for district attorney Richard Day, but who becomes the Black Orchid when evil is afoot.

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The intro mentions that she has a magic ring, but, apparently, the only thing it does is release somekinda knockout gas, which could just as easily be scientific as magic.

Page 2, Panel 4. The colorist got a little sloppy. The background between the Black Orchid's body & arm is colored red just like her coat.

Okay, Doctor Arso has developed a technique to bring the dead back to life and he uses one of his zombies to steal a transplant formula so he can replace his missing arm.
1. He can conquer death, but transplants are a mystery?
2. He's going to sew a new arm onto himself? (Boy, some do-it-yourselfers...)
3. You'd think the scientific community would be grateful to learn the secret of bringing the dead back to life and would willingly help him get a new arm.

Page 9, Panel 6. In the previous panel Dr. Arso's zombies grabbed the Black Orchid's jacket and dress. Presumably the dress ripped, but the new 'hemline' doesn't look ripped.

BTW in both her stories in this issue she gets her jacket & dress skirt ripped off as the story goes along.
Kind of a shame she didn't appear in longer stories. ;-) *bah dum bump*

When Doctor Arso dies his zombies die (redie?) as well.
Why? Was his technique somehow tied into his lifeforce?


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Dr. Mityken is almost gunned down by criminals, but refuses to go to the police preferring to "outwit them in my own fashion."
Yeesh!

The criminals want him to give up his patents on his new flame thrower for the government, but the crooks already have their own flame throwers, which seem to work rather well.

The criminals flame throwers have long, loose tubes between the tank and the thrower mounted on their helmets and yet these things never get caught on anything, nor does the Black Orchid try to yank it out to prevent them throwing more flames.

Carson is upset at the underling who burned Doctor Mityken against Ramsey's orders, so he uses a flamethrower against him and burns him to ashes.
The underling is still wearing the flame thrower outfit, with the gas tank, which you'd think might just explode.

Page 9. The Black Orchid's jacket is set on fire as she goes to dive out a window. Panel 3 has her reaching for some telephone wires as her jacket burns, but Panel 4 shows her swinging on the lines while the jacket falls.
How & when did she take it off?

Key Comics #1 Online scan of the comic.

The Key - An Indian tribe gave Dr. Jeffery Quick a magic key that lets him fight crime.

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Why would an indian magic key look so much like a normal key?
(Well, besides the obvious answer of “It's magic!”)

Page 2, Panel 1. The caption reads, "a red-skinned native of Oklahoma"
However, the colorist made Palo dark brown. (Which, admittedly looks better than if they'd gone with actual red, but the brown seems too dark as well.)

The implication is that the key gives Dr. Quick great power which seems to be limited to throwing it at someone like a bolo or lasso, not quite the "great power" I was expecting.


Dick Dash In Nazi Occupied Europe

Dick says, "The Nazis can't hurt me! My country's not at war!"
Naive, much?


The Will O' The Wisp

When Gale is a baby a crook her father had prosecuted escapes kills her mother, cripples her father, and to quiet her sticks a willow branch in her crib.
Where the heck did that willow branch come from?

The writer, and therefore the characters, seemed to think there is some connection between willow branches and will o' the wisps.


The Curse Of The Fortune Teller

A fortune teller is telling three Nazi agents their fortune, she mentions one will die in fire... and then one of the Nazis shoots her. However, later after one dies another agent says the gypsy predicted one would die by breaking.