Reading Room: JAGUAR MAN "Tale of the Tatooed Egg"

Well, that opening caption certainly synopsized all you need to know about our hero, which is convenient, since this is his one and only appearance anywhere!
The byline is "Jack Lane", but since this story is the only credit for him on the Grand Comic Database, I suspect it's a pseudonym for a writer-artist team, probably from the Iger studios, who supplied a lot of Fox Comics' material.

All-Great Comics was a giant-sized (132 pages!) annual for 25¢ from Fox that basically ran anything lying around the offices including one-shots like Jaguar Man and leftover material from other titles like Green Mask.
(There were 30 different stories in this issue!)
Two comments:
Why doesn't his costume have a mask? Does "Steve Lane: lion house keeper" have no acquaintances who might think his sideline a bit...odd if they ran into him as he prowled the streets?
Don't you think Wonder Woman villainess The Cheetah filled out the exact same costume much better?

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Vortex of Scoundrels and Scandal!"

Page 1 is the book's 2-color inside cover.

More Matt Baker "good girl" art in the first of three stories from Phantom Lady #14!
Enjoy!

When this story was reprinted as the cover feature in Daring Adventures #12, the splash page was left out, because the reprint publisher didn't have the cover printing plates, only the interiors for this issue!
FYI: Covers (on slick paper) and insides (on newsprint) are printed on separate presses and combined later.
Because the splash page was missing, the reprint editor didn't know the original title, and renamed the story "The Great Stamp Robbery"!
The splash page above is blue and black, not four-color, because, until recently, inside covers of comics were either b/w or 2-color, with the second color being either cyan (blue, as in this case) or magenta (pinkish-red).
Since the plates for the cover weren't available, a new cover by Joe Simon was commissioned, which was nowhere as nice as the original Matt Baker cover, and features Sandra Knight's boyfriend Ted being much more heroic than in the actual story!
You can see one of Matt Baker's 1950s romance stories at our sister blog True Love Comics Tales.
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Reading Room: THOR: GOD OF THUNDER "Buddha's Golden Hoard"

Note that the Real Thor has white hair on this page, but red hair on page 3

The third appearance of the Golden Age Thor was presented HERE.
We now present his fourth tale.
Note: there are Asian stereotypes common to the 1930s-40s in this tale.
Definitely not Politically Correct, so this story may be NSFW.

Penciled and inked by Dan Gormley, this was the longest story of the Golden Age Thor's run.
Gormley's version discarded all the accouterments (helmet, cape, long hair) of the mythological god, and Grant's blonde hair is now red.
The final story will run soon.
Watch for it.

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Reading Room: THE SHADOW "Eyes of the Tiger"

The Silver Age Shadow can be found here and here.

The last story from the never-reprinted The Shadow #1 (The Silver Age version).
Script by Robert Bernstein.
Art by John Rosenberger.

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Reading Room: PHANTOM LADY "Knights of the Crooked Cross"

MORE Phantom Lady action from her first issue...

Classic "good girl" art by Matt Baker.
The writer is probably Ruth Roche.

The other feature in this issue was a Blue Beetle story, which we'll present in the near future.

The Phantom Lady will return...

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