Volume: 5
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1944-03-29
Editing: Stanley Beaman (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Target Comics (Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1940 series) #v5#2 [50] Edit Cover
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The Target and the Targeteers / cover / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; humor; superhero
Characters:
Target [Niles Reed]

Issue Data

  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Novelty Press Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly November to June; bi-monthly July to October
  • Printer: ?

Indexer 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. 2.

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Target Hits and Misses / letters page / 1 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
Synopsis:
Editor asks readers if they want to stop "serial" stories. Asks if they want two separate text page stories.

Indexer Notes

inside front cover

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The Cadet / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
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Colors:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Daunton cadets have pledged to sell a million dollars worth of bonds...
Characters:
Kit Carter (the Cadet); Dan Merry (his pal)

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Speck, Spot and Sis / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Jack Warren (signed as Vincent)
Inks:
Jack Warren (signed as Vincent)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Springtime on Grandma's farm brings with it the scent of apple blossoms...

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The Target and the Targeteers / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The order is for the Target and his pals to get the goods through at all costs --
Characters:
villain: Nazis

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Candid Charlie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Gordon Guth (signed)
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:An amateur photographer's dream come true!

Courage Never Changes
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text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:war

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Dan'l Flannel / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Unwittingly Dan'l bought himself a donkey who answers to the name of Cleo!

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Bull's-Eye Bill / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Bill sets out to square things for one of his buddies and finds out...
Characters:
Captain Bill Target (Bull's-Eye Bill); villain: Nazi spys

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The Chameleon / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; spy; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When The Chameleon first glances into an innocent looking brief case, little does he know...
Characters:
Pete Stockbridge [The Chameleon]

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Targetoons / cartoon / 2 pages

Script:
Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils:
Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks:
Milt Hammer (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Yes ma'am - everything is a la carte-!

Bumbershoot Jump
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Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll / comics-form advertising / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    The Target and the Targeteers
  2. [no title indexed]
    Target Hits and Misses
  3. ["The Daunton cadets have pledged to sell a million dollars worth of bonds..."]
    The Cadet
  4. ["Springtime on Grandma's farm brings with it the scent of apple blossoms..."]
    Speck, Spot and Sis
  5. ["The order is for the Target and his pals to get the goods through at all costs --"]
    The Target and the Targeteers
  6. ["An amateur photographer's dream come true!"]
    Candid Charlie
  7. Courage Never Changes
  8. ["Unwittingly Dan'l bought himself a donkey who answers to the name of Cleo!"]
    Dan'l Flannel
  9. ["Bill sets out to square things for one of his buddies and finds out..."]
    Bull's-Eye Bill
  10. ["When The Chameleon first glances into an innocent looking brief case, little does he know..."]
    The Chameleon
  11. ["Yes ma'am - everything is a la carte-!"]
    Targetoons
  12. Bumbershoot Jump
    Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
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