Punch Comics

1941 Serie

Publisher: Chesler/Dynamic
Publication Dates: December 1941 – October 1946
Number of Issues Published: 19 (#1 – #19)
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Publication Type: magazine

Numbering continues with Punch Comics (Superior Publishers Limited, 1947 series) #20

1947 Serie

Publisher: Superior Publishers Limited
Publication Dates: July 1947 – [circa 1950]
Number of Issues Published: 6 (#20 – #31)
Color: colour
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Publication Type: magazine

Numbering continues from Punch Comics (Chesler / Dynamic, 1941 series) #19

Issues 24 and 29 are presumed not to exist.

Information thanks to the Grand Comic Database

Some characters :

Captain Glory

Name Captain Glory
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Unknown
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Punch Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Harry ‘A’ Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA details missing

Captain Glory is a FBI agent, never named, who wears a business suit with American flag colours and theme to emphasize his patriotism. He has no superpowers.

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Hale the Magician

Name Hale the Magician
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Magician
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Punch Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Harry ‘A’ Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA details missing

Buried for 100’s of years with his magic spearhead, Hale, the magician, returns to life to battle the injustices of the present day world

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Kitty Kelly

Name Kitty Kelly (The Yankee Girl)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Heroine
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Red Seal Comics #17
Year 1946
Publisher Harry ‘A’ Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA

Kitty was a costumed heroine with super-strength. Other appearances of the “Kitty Kelly” strip feature her as an airline hostess. The same publisher later came up with a second Yankee Girl

Master Key

Name Master Key
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Ray Cardell
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Scoop Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Harry ‘A’ Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA

One night, strange rays blast through the telescope that he is using. It has an effect upon his right eye that allows him to look through solid objects. As his character developed into the 40’s, his eye could paralyse and burn people or objects.

Rocketman

Name Rocketman
A.K.A. (See Zip-Jets)
Secret ID. Cal Martin
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Rocket Boy and Rocket Girl (Side-Kicks)
1st Appearance Scoop Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Harry ‘A’ Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA

Cal Martin, an inventor and adventurer, creates a “three-cartridge rocket pack” jetpack that allows him to fly through the air. He makes one for his fiancée Doris Dalton, and together they fight crime and the Germans as Rocketman and Rocketgirl. They are partnered with Billy Wood, a young boy who they gave a jetpack to and who helps them as Rocket Boy. Cal has no powers but can fly with the jetpack.