Golden Age Appearances of the Merry, Girl of 1000 Gimmicks (1940-1955)

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Splash Page Recreation from Star-Spangled Comics #87 (December 1948) originally by Win Mortimer, re-imagined with pen and inks by the Fraim Brother and colors by David Stepp.

Issue

Cover Appearance?

Comment

Reprinted In

Star-Spangled Comics #81

No

“The Human Fly” – I: Merry Creamer, daughter of burglar Fly-Foot Creamer who puts his daughter in an orphanage and tries to go straight.  The Pembertons adopt Merry and when crooks try to exploit this, Creamer dies protecting the secret of his daughters origins.

 

Star-Spangled Comics #82

No

“The Crimes by Magic” – Merry creates a costume for herself to help the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripsey out with a new villain, Presto the Magician. 

 

Star-Spangled Comics #83

No

“The Adventures of the Rope” – I: the Rope, vs. the Rope, w/Star-Spangled Kid and Stripsey, Merry is revealed as a masked heroine

 

Star-Spangled Comics #84

No

“The Return of the Rope” – Merry battles the Rope solo while Sylvester is on a boating trip with his dad.

 

Star-Spangled Comics #85

No

“The Educated Horse” – Merry is sent on vacation to a dude ranch and breaks up a gang of thieves, Star-Spangled Kid does not appear

 

Star-Spangled Comics #86

No

“Crime Goes on the Warpath” – Helps out an Indian tribe targeted by crooks for the oil wells

 

Star-Spangled Comics #87

No

“Crime on Ice” – thwarts crooked ice skaters robbing their patrols via hypnosis

 

Star-Spangled Comics #88

No

“The Girl Who Tried to Be a Boy” – helps out girl whose grandfather makes her act masculine as he wanted a son

 

Star-Spangled Comics #89

No

“Marauders from Mars” -  fends off a Martian expeditionary force

 

Star-Spangled Comics #90

No

“The Duel of the Gimmicks” – vs. The Gimmick Guy, a criminal who tries to match her modus operandi.

Adventure Comics #416