Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1959-07-30
Editing: Robert Kanigher (editor)

Human Air Raid!

Mlle. Marie / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:war

Indexer Notes

Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics, erroneously credit this cover to Ross Andru.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

[no title indexed]

Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / advertisement / 1 page

Human Air Raid!

Mlle. Marie / comic story / 13 pages


  • Genre:war
Characters:
Mlle. Marie; French Resistance; Nazis
Synopsis:
Marie acts as bait in a tree to kill a tank, but the Resistance's ammo is running low, and no money to buy more supplies. Meanwhile Allied bombers can't bomb a gorge to kill a Nazi train. And the Nazis offer a million franc reward for Marie's capture! She volunteers and is turned in. Her comrade safeguards the money from being stolen back by Nazis as she escapes. Finally, re-supplied with ammo and ordnance, Marie's squad parachutes with explosives down into the gorge and destroys the train, a "human air raid".

Water: A Good Friend or Deadly Enemy -- Depending on You!

public service announcement / 1 page


  • Genre:advocacy
Synopsis:
rules for water safety

Indexer Notes

published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly

[no title indexed]

Frontier Cabin / advertisement / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]

Hi-Power Binoculars / advertisement / 0.5 page

Flattop Mosquito!

comic story / 5.67 pages


  • Genre:war
Synopsis:
A rookie Navy pilot is thrilled to get his own carrier plane, but realizes he's tiny compared to the power and guns of the ship. Until, after a dogfight, he chases a kamikaze to within inches of the carrier's destruction - and blows up the plane with a single bullet to save the carrier! What all the guns and squadrons couldn't do, a "mosquito" did.

[no title indexed]

Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page

[no title indexed]

Palisades Amusement Park Admission / advertisement / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]

Sling-a-Shot / advertisement / 0.5 page

Aircraft Insignia

cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; war

[no title indexed]

Combat Corner / letters page / 1 page


Synopsis:
Editors answer readers' questions about magnetic and acoustic mines, heavy machine gun targets, artillery fire, and carrier plane numbers.

comic story / 5.67 pages


  • Genre:war
Synopsis:
Marine Able Company storms a Pacific island under fire. The sarge asks private Hewitt, "Who's left?" as the force gets whittled down. Hewitt is amazed as guys advance and wave their comrades on. Soon it's only Hewitt and sarge who's left, then Hewitt. "I'm left!" He gains a dead tank and blasts a Zero with its machine gun. Then he waves to the "guys who answered the toughest roll call of all - Who's left?"

[no title indexed]

Tootsie [all other candies] / advertisement / 0.33 page

[no title indexed]

Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Littleton Stamps / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Giant Flying Plastic Jet / advertisement / 1 page

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