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   * The archeologist Maryland Smith has adventures.  [Adventures of the Rifle Brigade #1-3]   * The archeologist Maryland Smith has adventures.  [Adventures of the Rifle Brigade #1-3]
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 +==== 1937 ====
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 +=== November, 1937 ===
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 +  * [[Flossie]], a young schoolgirl, begins adventures alongside her dog, Rickey. [Flossie, Feature Funnies #2 (November, 1937)]
  
 ==== 1938 ==== ==== 1938 ====
  
   * Mr. Brent, strong enough to shatter concrete or turn boulders into sand with his bare hands, becomes Mr. Might. He was born Barb-Ell of the planet Neon, son of Dumb-Ell. After the citizens of Neon ignored his warnings of their planet's pending destruction, Dumb-Ell sent his son Barb-Ell in a rocket to Earth. However, Dumb-Ell really was a crackpot, and Neon never did explode.  [Inferior 5 #1]   * Mr. Brent, strong enough to shatter concrete or turn boulders into sand with his bare hands, becomes Mr. Might. He was born Barb-Ell of the planet Neon, son of Dumb-Ell. After the citizens of Neon ignored his warnings of their planet's pending destruction, Dumb-Ell sent his son Barb-Ell in a rocket to Earth. However, Dumb-Ell really was a crackpot, and Neon never did explode.  [Inferior 5 #1]
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 +=== May, 1938 ===
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 +  * After dictator Gil O. Teen the First of Pyromania orders that all men with beards shall either be shot, boycotted, or sent to concentration camps, a young red-haired artist named [[Archie O'Toole]] is sent to jail after painting a portrait of an old man with a long white beard. When the dictator asks him to paint his portrait in exchange for his freedom, Archie paints an abstract painting instead, then tricks the dictator into walking backwards right off his own ledge. According to the laws of the land, Gil O. Teen is deposed for being made a fool, and Archie is made the new king of Pyromania. King O'Toole is assisted by his advisor, old Sneezheim. [Archie O'Toole, Feature Funnies #10 (July, 1938)]
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 +=== June, 1938 ===
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 +  * Archie O'Toole, the new king of Pyromania, is challenged to a sword fight by deposed dictator Gil O. Teen, who is defeated with the help of a schoolboy with a slingshot. [Archie O'Toole, Feature Funnies #11 (August, 1938)]
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 +=== August, 1938 ===
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 +  * The Earl of Wintergreen becomes Archie O'Toole's new bodyguard. [Archie O'Toole, Feature Funnies #13 (October, 1938)]
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 +=== September, 1938 ===
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 +  * Former dictator Gil O. Teen leads a rebellion against King Archie O'Toole of Pyromania, using an army of rebels who have been made angry through starvation. King O'Toole has a picnic rather than watching the battle, and he inadvertently stops the war by winning the rebel soldiers over with his picnic food. [Archie O'Toole, Feature Funnies #14 (November, 1938)]
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 +=== October, 1938 ===
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 +  * Archie O'Toole, king of Pyromania, visits New York City in America to secure a loan for his cash-strapped nation. Landing in Chinatown, King O'Toole meets an agent who throws a ticker-tape parade for him and then has him sign hundreds of product endorsement contracts, such as toothpaste ads. [Archie O'Toole, Feature Funnies #15 (December, 1938)]
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 +=== November, 1938 ===
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 +  * While visiting America, King Archie O'Toole of Pyromania decides to see the sights but is soon targeted by criminals, one of whom uses his reluctant blonde stepdaughter Suzy Sweet to act as a damsel in distress so he can kidnap King O'Toole. After the crime chief and his henchmen shoot each other over an argument, King O'Toole returns to Pyromania with Suzy after they fall for each other. [Archie O'Toole, Feature Funnies #16 (January, 1939)]
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 +=== December, 1938 ===
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 +  * After his ministers Hodge, Podge, and Fudge arrange for Archie O'Toole to marry Vera Venom, queen of Tewtimia, they are surprised when King O'Toole returns to Pyromania with Suzy Sweet of America. When Vera threatens to invade Pyromania if Archie doesn't marry her, the royal cabinet arranges for a beauty contest to decide between the two possible queens. After a tie in rounds one and two, Suzy wins round three's bathing suit contest when it turns out that Vera is bow-legged. [Archie O'Toole, Feature Funnies #17 (February, 1940)]
  
 ==== 1939 ==== ==== 1939 ====
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 === February, 1939 === === February, 1939 ===
  
 +  * **Flossie** has her last published adventure as an ordinary schoolgirl. [Flossie, Feature Funnies #17 (February, 1939)]
   * [[Mortimer Mum]], a bald, middle-aged man with a white mustache and a top hat who never speaks, begins adventures. [Mortimer Mum, Feature Funnies #19 (April, 1939)]   * [[Mortimer Mum]], a bald, middle-aged man with a white mustache and a top hat who never speaks, begins adventures. [Mortimer Mum, Feature Funnies #19 (April, 1939)]
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 +=== June, 1939 ===
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 +  * [[Nibbsy]], a bald, bespectacled little man with a white mustache who wears a green, yellow, blue, or red robe begins appearing from out of nowhere to do favors for people. His catchphrase is, "Nibbsy, that's me!" In his first known adventures, he uses a heavy book to knock out a pushy man asking a secretary out to dinner, and shows up unexpectedly as a one-man marching band for a young couple in love wanting to dance to music in the fields. [Rube Goldberg's Side Show, Feature Comics #23 (August, 1939)]
  
 ==== 1940 ==== ==== 1940 ====
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   * Deciding that the New York Yankees have held the championship long enough, Poison Ivy joins the Brooklyn Dodgers as a water boy, then doses them with water from the Fountain of Youth, causing them to become younger and younger until they disappear. As the last team member, Poison Ivy then plays against the Yankees, beating them with 268 home runs. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #34 (July, 1940)]   * Deciding that the New York Yankees have held the championship long enough, Poison Ivy joins the Brooklyn Dodgers as a water boy, then doses them with water from the Fountain of Youth, causing them to become younger and younger until they disappear. As the last team member, Poison Ivy then plays against the Yankees, beating them with 268 home runs. [Poison Ivy the Mighty Mite, Feature Comics #34 (July, 1940)]
 +  * In his last regular appearance, **Nibbsy** saves six kittens from being drowned by catching them with an old baseball glove as they're being tossed off the dock, then reunites them with their mother. [Rube Goldberg's Side Show, Crack Comics #3 (July, 1940)]
  
 === August, 1940 === === August, 1940 ===
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   * The Masked Swastika, Speed Demon, the Silver Sorceress and the Sparrow gather together as Vendetta.   * The Masked Swastika, Speed Demon, the Silver Sorceress and the Sparrow gather together as Vendetta.
   * Death of Ernie, the Battling Boy.  General Glory asks [a timelost Supergirl / a time-and dimension-lost Power Girl of Earth-2] to become his new sidekick. She reluctantly agrees.  [Justice League Europe Annual #2]   * Death of Ernie, the Battling Boy.  General Glory asks [a timelost Supergirl / a time-and dimension-lost Power Girl of Earth-2] to become his new sidekick. She reluctantly agrees.  [Justice League Europe Annual #2]
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 +==== 1946 ====
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 +=== January, 1946 ===
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 +  * **Little Butch** makes a brief reappearance setting fire to a list of New Year's resolutions. [Rube Goldberg's Side Show, Crack Comics #40 (Winter, 1945)]
 +  * **Nibbsy** makes a brief reappearance helping a man remember to write "1946" instead of "1945" when writing dates in this New Year by placing several pretzels in the shape of the number "6" on a nearby wall. [Rube Goldberg's Side Show, Crack Comics #40 (Winter, 1945)]
  
 ==== 1945 - 1946 ==== ==== 1945 - 1946 ====
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