Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1948-10-18
Editing: Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor); Julius Schwartz (actual editor)

Unseen Allies!

Johnny Thunder / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:western-frontier
Characters:
Johnny Thunder [John Tane]

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Can You Solve This Puzzle?

AMF Roadmaster Bicycles / advertisement / 1 page

Unseen Allies!

Johnny Thunder / comic story / 10 pages


  • Genre:western-frontier
  • Job Number:AAW2
Characters:
Johnny Thunder [John Tane]
Reprints (1)

Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page

Old Nick Solves the Yacht Club Mystery in the Nick of Time

Bit-o-Honey; Old Nick Candy Bar / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Laredo Land Rush!

Overland Coach / comic story / 8 pages


  • Genre:western-frontier
Characters:
Tony Barrett

Fellows! Girls! Get Captain Tootsie's Mystifying, Baffling Bag of Magic Tricks

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

comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:non-fiction; western-frontier
Characters:
Jimmy Nesbitt

[no title indexed]

Cactus Charlie's Western Dictionary / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ah was settin' in the shade readin' mah wish book......
Characters:
Cactus Charlie
Synopsis:
Definitions for wish book, twister, high-tailed, brand-blotcher, and possum.

Indexer Notes

Printed on top half of page.

B. F. Goodrich Rubber Boots / advertisement / 0.5 page

The Gold Dust Trail!

Minstrel Maverick / comic story / 8 pages


  • Genre:western-frontier
  • Job Number:AAW 2
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]

Erector / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]

DC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Stairless Skyscrapers

text article / 2 pages


  • Genre:non-fiction; western-frontier
Synopsis:
A brief description of how cliff-dwellers built and accessed their abodes.

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Editorial Advisory Board

DC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]

Flagg Shirts / advertisement / 0.5 page

The Mysterious Marauder!

Foley of the Fighting 5th / comic story / 8 pages


  • Genre:western-frontier
Characters:
Lt. Dan Foley; Wingfoot; The Highwayman [Reginald Torbin] (villain, introduction); The Highwayman [Dick Torbin] (villain, image only)
Synopsis:
In the Old West, a mysterious masked man is robbing stage coaches and payrolls, and even manages to outfight Lt. Dan Foley of the Fighting 5th sent to investigate. Eventually Foley and his Indian guide and friend Wingfoot manage to capture the masked man and he stands revealed as transplanted Englishman and rancher Reginald Torbin who was emulating his ancestor Dick Torbin, the famous highwayman. His downfall was in part to carrying the emulation too far in wearing an identical costume as the one of Dick’s in a portrait hanging in his home that Foley had seen while meeting with the rancher.
Reprints (1)

Oh! Boy! Lionel Trains

Lionel Trains / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Western Facts / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Pony Express at one time charged $5...
Synopsis:
Random facts about Zane Grey, Pony Espress, cactus and Death Valley.

Indexer Notes

Printed on top half of page.

Saved by Trade & Mark

Adventures of Nip & Tuck; Smith Brothers Cough Drops / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]

Hopkinson Magnus Harmonica / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Thom McAn Shoes / advertisement / 1 page

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