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Hy Score In Arabia
Strips: 1 - 11
Dates: 06/30/1940 - 09/08/1940
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
Secret Agent Hy Score and his colleague, Hodson, are in Arabia to retrieve from the spy cell who stole them American war plans. They will have to deal first, though, with a dangerous and barbaric bandit leader named Brutan. Along the way they will rescue a female nurse/nanny named Lorna and her young charge, a small girl named Penny.
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Hy Score Aboard The S.S. Zanabar
Strips: 12 - 20
Dates: 09/15/1940 - 11/10/1940
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
Secret Agent Hy Score is back in the States and given a new assignment. He and Agent Bunny Waters are to investigate suspected opium trafficking using a cargo/passenger ship called the S.S. Zanabar.
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Hy Score On The Trail Of Opium Runners
Strips: 21 - 24
Dates: 11/17/1940 - 12/08/1940
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
Surviving the dangers of the cargo ship, Hy Score and fellow agent Bunny Waters head to San Francisco where they know the opium traffickers are headed. Their plan is to track down who is behind it all.
Note: this is a sort of bridge arc, renamed by the author, to show the transition off the ship and the end of that portion of the overall adventure.
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"The Matter Of The Headless Spy"
Strips: 25 - 32
Dates: 12/15/1940 - 02/02/1941
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
It turns out that the opium trafficking was all part of a much larger espionage operation run by a man known as 'Big Boy', a genius with doctorates in multiple disciplines and the skill to create a hood of invisibility to keep his true identify. All that is seen above the man's shoulders is his long cigarette holder and a pair of pince-nez.
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"The Matter Of The Bald Baron"
Strips: 33 - 47
Dates: 02/09/1941 - 95/18/1941
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
Now it is revealed that Hy Score really works with the FBI. His boss tells him that something is up in Florida at the estate of a Wayne Rodney that Score should investigate. Arriving there, Score finds Rodney has just been shot. Looking into the matter, he will find himself up against an enemy spy ring led by a bald man called the Baron.
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"The Matter Of The Ailing Enemy Spy"
Strips: 48 - 68
Dates: 05/25/1941 - 10/12/1941
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
Barely surviving his previous adventure, Hy Score recoups in a hospital even as other enemy agents plot his murder. Involved in this new matter of a spy ring operating in Florida is a very sick spymaster and the efforts of his men to force an older pharmacist to "cure him". Also playing a part is the pharmacist's niece who is determined to get Hy to help her help her uncle.
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"The Matter Of The Writer's Murder"
Strips: 69 - 84
Dates: 10/19/1941 - 02/01/1942
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
Hy Score's newest assignment takes him to the territory of Alaska and the investigation of the murder of a prominent writer of history, said to be "an important person in American life". The author had invited several people to stay the week with him and Score is certain one of them was the murderer.
Note: this is a simple whodunit.
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"The Matter Of Bruno Moto"
Strips: 85 - 98
Dates: 02/08/1942 - 05/10/1942
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
When Hy Score is informed that a POW has escaped and is loose in the area, he goes tracking. The escapee is a highly dangerous enemy spy by the name of Bruno Moto and he is working for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Score is now out to recapture him and break up Moto's spy cell in Alaska.
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"The Matter Of Spy Trawler"
Strips: 99 - 107
Dates: 05/17/1942 - 07/12/1942
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
In pulling down the Japanese spy cell in the previous adventure, Hy Score has learned that an "innocent" fishing trawler is really connected with the enemy fleet and Hy is determined to track down the connection to break it up.
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"The Matter Of Deserted Isle"
Strips: 108 - 118
Dates: 07/19/1942 - 09/27/1942
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
The previous adventure 'ended' when the spy fishing trawler was lost in a hurricane. Hy Score and Kitty are the lone survivors, floating on debris for days until they come to a deserted tropical isle. Now they must find a way to survive.
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"The Matter Of The Japanese Sub Base"
Strips: 119 - 139
Dates: 10/04/1942 - 02/21/1943
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
In a very long adventure, Hy Score, Kitty, and her Uncle discover their deserted island is not so deserted as one part of it is really a Japanese sub resupply station. Soon all three are captured and sentenced to die but Score is determined to destroy the base.
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"The Matter Of The Homecoming"
Strips: 140 - 145
Dates: 02/28/1943 - 04/04/1943
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
In a relatively short transition 'adventure', we will follow Hy Score as he and Kitty and an injured Uncle are rescued and brought back to the States. Eventually, Score and Kitty will make their way across the country to Score's very fancy estate.
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"The Matter Of The Badger Game"
Strips: 146 - 164
Dates: 04/11/1943 - 08/15/1943
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
Hy Score will be given an interesting case to handle, using Kitty as his assistant. Someone is draining the bank accounts of very rich men and leaving them to commit suicide. After keeping the latest victim from doing so, Score learns an extensive badger game is ongoing and he decides he must be the next 'victim'.
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"The Matter Of Punchie"
Strips: 165 - 175
Dates: 08/22/1943 - 10/31/1943
Contributors: George Merkle (writer and artist)
Having taken down the conman's operation in the previous adventure, Hy Score and Kitty are surprised to find a young boy who has become the de facto ward of the conman. Punchie is the lad's name and he is more than a handful. Even as Score and Kitty move towards a lasting relationship, they know they have to do something with the boy.
Note: the last strip has the boy falling down a short cliff and hurting himself badly and Score needing to rush him to the doctor. With the entire strip ending, we never know what happens next.
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