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[[Image:Woody_Harrington_and_His_Whispering_Wizards_Treasure_Chest_of_Fun_and_Fact.png|right]]Band from "The Mystery of Shady Falls" running story starting in issue # of comic book ''Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact'' vol. 18, #11 (#337, Jan 31, 1963). They play the Great Kohler's roller-skating rink, which has just set up shop in Shady Falls, Maine. They hire local cub reporter [[Maureen Farrell]] to be their singer, even though she's terrible.  
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[[Image:Woody_Harrington_and_His_Whispering_Wizards_Treasure_Chest_of_Fun_and_Fact.png|right]]Vacationer, cub reporter, and amatuer singer from "The Mystery of Shady Falls" running story starting in issue # of comic book ''Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact'' vol. 18, #11 (#337, January 31, 1963), and concluding in vol. 18, #20 (#346, June 6, 1963). The Great Kohler's roller-skating rink has just set up shop in Shady Falls, Maine. Kohler hires her to front [[Woody Harrington and His Whispering Wizards]] even though she's terrible, because she has good diction. Kohler needs good diction because the songs he writes for her and Harrington are really coded messages to a waiting commie submarine offshore!
  
Pianist Harrington learned piano at the settlement house of the slums he grew up in. He's out on parole, and Kohler is blackmailing him into helping him.
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Maureen, her brother, and an undercover FBI agent bust up the whole gang. And that's the end of her singing "career."
 
 
Turns out European roller-skating ace Kohler is sending coded messages through the songs he has Harrington play and Farrell sing, and flying his helicopter out to a waiting commie submarine to deliver microfilm of U.S. secrets! Maureen, her brother, and an undercover FBI agent bust up the whole gang. Harrington gets into a big time New York music school to learn "...real long-hair stuff!"
 
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
*https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=35914
 
*https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=35914
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*https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=35926
  
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Revision as of 08:50, 9 February 2018

Woody Harrington and His Whispering Wizards Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact.png

Vacationer, cub reporter, and amatuer singer from "The Mystery of Shady Falls" running story starting in issue # of comic book Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact vol. 18, #11 (#337, January 31, 1963), and concluding in vol. 18, #20 (#346, June 6, 1963). The Great Kohler's roller-skating rink has just set up shop in Shady Falls, Maine. Kohler hires her to front Woody Harrington and His Whispering Wizards even though she's terrible, because she has good diction. Kohler needs good diction because the songs he writes for her and Harrington are really coded messages to a waiting commie submarine offshore!

Maureen, her brother, and an undercover FBI agent bust up the whole gang. And that's the end of her singing "career."

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