Issue: #71
Published: November 1946, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Thomas DeAngelo (Managing Editor)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Brass Knuckles and Slap Happy (from Sparky Watts) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
| Synopsis: |
Two boys, Casey and Max, build an airplane from junk parts. When it crashes, Joe Palooka buys them a small train. Knobby Walsh gets rail tickets belonging to someone else and is found out. Joe Palooka sees a rabbit in a country meadow but, when he returns two hours later, flowers have been torn up and trash scattered everywhere. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ham Fisher (signed) | Inks: Ham Fisher (signed) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Sparky Watts |
| Synopsis: |
Two inventors, Pat Pending and Doc Static, attempt to bring water to desperately dry Appledale. Slap Happy accidentally turns on the cosmic ray machine, sending Sparky Watts hurtling through clouds, creating rain. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Tom DeAngelo (signed) | Inks: Tom DeAngelo (signed) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Skyman |
| Synopsis: |
While exploring the moon, Skyman has fallen into a ravine and been knocked unconscious. He is found by two Germans, Gloria Van Dorn, a beautiful redhead, and Kurt, a vicious Nazi, who tries to steal Skyman's ship. Hidden on the ship are reporter Alec Benson (who had met Gloria in Germany in 1938 and fallen in love with her) and Fawn Carroll, who is in love with Skyman. Skyman slugs Kurt and they take off for home in the rocket ship. But the engines go dead. |
| Credits: |
Script: Gardner Fox | Pencils: Ogden Whitney (signed) | Inks: Ogden Whitney (signed) |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Dixie Dugan |
| Synopsis: |
Last part of sequence about bossy mother-in-law. |
| Credits: |
Script: J.P. McEvoy (see notes) | Pencils: John Striebel (see notes) |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Brass Knuckles |
| Synopsis: |
Brass runs away from a little girl who wants him to meet her aunt Ginger. He runs into an ice cream vendor and is helped by a beautiful redhead, who turns our to be Ginger. In the second two page sequence (which has a separate logo), he calls on Ginger with flowers and candy, but leaves when he sees her other suitors, who have looks, strength and money. But Ginger prefers Brass and runs after him. |
| Credits: |
Script: Mart Bailey [as Marty] ? | Pencils: Mart Bailey [as Marty] | Inks: Mart Bailey [as Marty] |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Good Old Bumpy |
| Synopsis: |
Three sailors with a parrot are in a bar. When they can't pay their bill, they sell the parrot to another patron, named Good Old Bumpy. |
| Credits: |
Script: Mart Bailey (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Cranberry Boggs |
| Synopsis: |
Cran is impressed by a new "beam trawler" fishing ship, but he falls into the catch and then smells like fish. A little girl is not catching any fish using gumdrops for bait so Cran helps her. |
| Credits: |
Script: Don Dean | Pencils: Don Dean (signed) |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Bo |
| Synopsis: |
Junior puts an old sweater on Bo. |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Beck | Pencils: Frank Beck | Inks: Frank Beck |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Charlie Chan |
| Synopsis: |
Charlie Chan begins to tell the story of the Lottery Murders to his son, Lee. |
| Credits: |
Script: Alfred Andriola | Pencils: Alfred Andriola | Inks: Alfred Andriola |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
All in a Lifetime |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Beck | Pencils: Frank Beck | Inks: Frank Beck |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Hollywood Husband |
| Synopsis: |
The Husband finds he can't get just a shave at a barber shop and, when he goes home, he can't get just a shave there either. |
| Credits: |
Script: Jefferson Machamer [as Jeff Machamer] | Pencils: Jefferson Machamer [as Jeff Machamer] | Inks: Jefferson Machamer [as Jeff Machamer] |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Tony Trent |
| Synopsis: |
Tony and Liz Doyle, "radio's glamour girl," are flying to Tokyo when their plane goes off course over the Burile islands. The plane is attacked by communist planes displaying the red star. The Jabo Jockeys come to their aid and shoot down several planes. Back on the ground, the General tells the pilot, Captain Bailey, that he is proud of the flyers even if they caused an international incident. |
| Credits: |
Script: Mart Bailey | Pencils: Mart Bailey (signed) | Inks: Mart Bailey (signed) |
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