Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
Editing: Harry "A" Chesler ?
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Skyrocket / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:war
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Skyrocket

Issue Data

Series Data

  • Color: color
  • Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
  • Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
  • Binding: saddle-stitched
  • Publication Type: magazine

Indexer Notes

There is NO date anywhere within this comic book. The publisher is listed as Home Guide Publications / 163 West 23rd Street / New York.
Entire Contents Created by Harry "A" Chesler, Jr. Features Syndicate, N. Y.

Note that the syndicate was named after packager Harry "A" Chesler's son. Chesler Sr. may or may not have edited, as he had editors within his packaging operation.

Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who lists Ken Battefield as having worked on Skyrocket for Chesler in 1944, indicating further that 1944 is the probable year of this comic book's publishing.

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Oddities / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:non-fiction; nature
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Vultures - These scrawny scavengers never kill for food.

Indexer Notes

Appears on the inside front ocver.

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Skyrocket / comic story / 8 pages

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  • Genre:war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:What plane can speed at 750 miles per...
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The Skyrocket (Intro, a plane); Lt. Ted Howard

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Punch and Cutey / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:sports; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The winnah! What the h---?

The Million Dollar Murders
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Alias the Dragon / comic story / 6 pages

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  • Genre:crime
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Alias the Dragon [Sgt. Bill Norton] (Intro)

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Inspector Pratt / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Operating from the mysterious leads sent him by...
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Inspector Pratt (Intro)

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Dr. Vampire / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Shocked by civilization's failure to stamp out the...
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Dr. Vampire [Dr. John Rogers]; Mikail (Villain, Intro, Death; a vampire)

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Ghost-Hunter / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:From Maine to Mexico the eerie exploits of...
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Fred Randall (Ghost Hunter, Intro)

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The Desperado / comic story / 7 pages

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  • Genre:crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Accused of a bank robbery he did not...
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Max Badger (Villain, Intro)
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Is it True? / cartoon / 1 page

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  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:That saliva is Nature's germ killer?
  • Keywords:quiz
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Daniel Boone
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Daniel Boone / comic story / 1 page

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  • Genre:biography; western-frontier
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Indexer Notes

In our index for Star Comics (Chesler / Dynamic, 1937 series) #2, art for this story is attributed to Rafael Astarita. But when first indexed here, it was attributed to Richard Speed.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Skyrocket
  2. ["Vultures - These scrawny scavengers never kill for food."]
    Oddities
  3. ["What plane can speed at 750 miles per..."]
    Skyrocket
  4. ["The winnah! What the h---?"]
    Punch and Cutey
  5. The Million Dollar Murders
    Alias the Dragon
  6. ["Operating from the mysterious leads sent him by..."]
    Inspector Pratt
  7. ["Shocked by civilization's failure to stamp out the..."]
    Dr. Vampire
  8. ["From Maine to Mexico the eerie exploits of..."]
    Ghost-Hunter
  9. ["Accused of a bank robbery he did not..."]
    The Desperado
  10. ["That saliva is Nature's germ killer?"]
    Is it True?
  11. Daniel Boone
    Daniel Boone
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  • Michael Hoskin
  • James Ludwig
  • Daniel Martinez
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Mike Nielsen
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  • Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
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