Issue: #43
Published: February 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing: Vin Sullivan
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 1.
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Cover (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Sparky Watts |
Credits: |
Pencils: Tom DeAngelo [as TDA] (signed) | Inks: Tom DeAngelo [as TDA] (signed) |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Sparky Watts Adolph Hitler |
Advertisement (1 page) |
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Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Pencils: ? (photograph) | Inks: ? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
Comic Story (1 page) |
More Army Life |
Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
Synopsis: |
Jerry volunteers to search for a raiding party that's overdue to report; when Jerry fails to report within two hours, Joe offers to go in search of Jerry and the raiding party. |
Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
Genre: |
Humor War |
Characters: |
Joe Palooka Jerry Leemy |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
Synopsis: |
A captain and a sergeant are impressed when they witness Jerry's feats on the field - not realizing that Jerry is motivated by a bee inside his pants. |
Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
Genre: |
Humor War |
Characters: |
Joe Palooka Jerry Leemy |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
Synopsis: |
Little Max finds a way to do his part for the war effort. |
Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Little Max |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
Synopsis: |
Jerry hams it up in front of a cameraman filming a battle. |
Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
Genre: |
Humor War |
Characters: |
Jerry Leemy Joe Palooka |
Comic Story (4 pages) |
The Synthetic Rubber Formula, Part 4 |
Featuring: |
Captain Yank |
Synopsis: |
Capt. Yank and his companions join a group of traveling pilgrims to sneak past Japanese soldiers to reach Hangchow. |
Credits: |
Script: Frank Tinsley | Pencils: Frank Tinsley | Inks: Frank Tinsley |
Genre: |
War |
Characters: |
Dr. Lin Wing Capt. Yank Wong Chu-Ling |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Pet Show |
Featuring: |
Bo |
Synopsis: |
The day before a pet show, Bo spends the night chasing after cats leaving him tired and lethargic at the competition. |
Credits: |
Script: Frank Beck | Pencils: Frank Beck | Inks: Frank Beck |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Bo (a Dog) Junior Mr. Brown Wilfred Bertram |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Redwood Forest, Part 5 |
Featuring: |
Dixie Dugan |
Synopsis: |
After preparing an "accident" for Dixie, Mickey, and Hale, Wolfe and Rellini coerce Wood into signing away his timberland. |
Credits: |
Script: J. P. McEvoy | Pencils: J. H. Streibel | Inks: J. H. Streibel |
Characters: |
Dixie Dugan Mickey Bud Hale Mr. Wood Mr. Wolfe Rellini |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Submersible Aircraft Carrier |
Featuring: |
Skyman |
Synopsis: |
Skyman discovers that the Japanese are using a submersible aircraft carrier as a base of operations to strike at targets. |
Credits: |
Script: Gardner Fox [as Paul Dean] | Pencils: Ogden Whitney (signed) | Inks: Ogden Whitney (signed) |
Genre: |
Aviation War |
Characters: |
Skyman Admiral McGuire |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
All in a Lifetime |
Credits: |
Script: Frank Beck | Pencils: Frank Beck | Inks: Frank Beck |
Genre: |
Humor |
Advertisement (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
National Radio Institute |
Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Pencils: ?; ? (photographs) | Inks: ?; ? (photographs) | Letters: typeset |
Characters: |
J. E. Smith (photo) |
Advertisement (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
MoToR's Auto Repair Manual |
Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
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