Volume: #4, Issue: #1 [36]
Published: February 1947, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Ed Cronin [as Edward Cronin]
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1947 by Hillman Periodicals, Inc.
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.
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| Comic Story (13 pages) |
The Elephants' Graveyard |
| Featuring: |
Airboy |
| Synopsis: |
Ivory Anderson tells his men of an elephant named "Gargan" that had four ivory tusks, probably long dead by now. But what interests him most is that Airboy is flying to the elephant graveyard where Gargan will most likely be found and he wants those tusks. Ivory reaches his destination, but Gargan is still living and remembers the time gangster Anderson abused him. |
| Credits: |
Script: Carmine Infantino | Pencils: Carmine Infantino | Inks: John Belfi |
| Genre: |
Adventure Aviation |
| Characters: |
Airboy [David Nelson II] Professor Reed Gargan (4 Tusked Elephant, Death) "Ivory" Anderson (villain, Death) Pinky (villain) |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
Von Emmelman's Pearls |
| Featuring: |
The Heap |
| Synopsis: |
After winning 1st Prize at the National Model Plane Show with his entry: an exact copy of Airboy's plane, Birdie, he meets with a soldier friend of his and tells him about the Heap. Suddenly, a group of thugs interrupt and demand a package containing the Emmelman Pearls, the soldier is carrying for a friend of his. When Tom doesn't come across with it, they kill Tom and knock out Rickie. Rickie then uses his model of Birdie to locate the thugs, and when Rickie is captured and buried alive, Rickie uses Birdie to circle the area. The Heap sees it, saves the boy but takes the pearls. |
| Credits: |
Script: Dick Wood | Pencils: Arthur F. Peddy ? | Inks: Bernard Sachs ? | Colours: Dick Wood |
| Genre: |
Adventure Aviation |
| Characters: |
The Heap [Baron Von Emmelmann] Rickie Wood Tom (soldier Friend Of Rickie, Death) Tom's Friend (death?) Forefinger (villain, Death?) Mutton (villain, Death?) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Detective On Horseback |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Baron Buckskin |
| Credits: |
Script: Art Helfant | Pencils: Art Helfant | Inks: Art Helfant | Colours: Art Helfant | Letters: Art Helfant |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Baron Buckskin |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Double for a Star |
| Featuring: |
Skinny McGinty |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Tony DiPreta [as DiPreta] (signed) | Inks: Tony DiPreta [as DiPreta] (signed) |
| Characters: |
Skinny McGinty |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Henry the 8th |
| Credits: |
Script: Art Helfant | Pencils: Art Helfant | Inks: Art Helfant | Colours: Art Helfant | Letters: Art Helfant |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Tale of Darkness |
| Credits: |
Script: Dick Hall | Pencils: Dick Hall | Inks: Dick Hall | Colours: Dick Hall |
| Genre: |
Humor |
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