by Jim Steranko, odd issues of Iron Man, X-Men, Captain America and Doctor Strange were published in random order with no regard to continuity — any references to next issue's story in the original run were often covered over before printing, and there was no guarantee that any character would appear in consecutive issues of a title, or even in the same title. (One of the few exceptions to this was when Alans Class' Creepy Worlds #32-38 reprinted nearly the first Fantastic Four stories in sequence, missing only #7). Archie/Radio Comics' characters Jaguar, The Fly and Mighty Crusaders; Charlton's Captain Atom and Judomaster; ACG's Magicman and Nemesis; King Features' Flash Gordon by Reed Crandall, "The Phantom" and Mandrake the Magician, among others, also appeared on a random basis across many titles. Golden Age superheroes such as Novelty Press's Blue Bolt and the 1940s Timely Captain America and Human Torch tales were similarly treated. Only characters published by National Comics (now DC Comics) were unrepresented, as the syndicated merchandising deal did not include them. The balance of each comic was made up of short stories from other comic book titles and the occasional text story. Superheroes did not necessarily get cover billing in any issue — they were treated with the same importance as any other story. Short-run/one-off issues A number of Alan Class titles were un-numbered short-run or one-off issues. These were experimental titles testing the market for different genres, such as romance (My Secret Confessions, which anthologised American Comics Group love story reprints, and Uncensored Love), war titles (Journey Into Danger #1-8, reprinting Atlas war stories, and two issues of Tales Of Action), and westerns (three issues of Blazing Trails featuring Charlton and Fawcett western stories, and one issue of Hell-Fire Raiders(1966) reprinting Fawcett Tom Mix, Tex Ritter and Lash LaRue stories). None of these went on to become longer-running titles; Alan Class would later say of the whole line, "Only the suspense/space stories stood the test of time." Class also issued several short-run titles in the humour and crime genres. There were five issues of Just Dennis (1965), with reprints of the American version of Dennis the Menace together with Atomic Mouse and Atom the Cat reprints (the series was not titled Dennis the Menace to avoid copyright issues with DC Thomson's British Dennis the Menace character), and two issues of Super Mouse featuring Charlton humour reprints. Alan