Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 60
On-sale Date: 1943-11-23
Editing: Jean Press (credited as Jean M. Press) (editor); Thurman Scott (credited as T. T. Scott) (business manager)
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Tank-Buster
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U.S. Rangers / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Art Saaf (signed as Saaf)
Inks:
Art Saaf (signed as Saaf)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war; adventure
Reprints (1)

Issue Data

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. 1.

[no title indexed]
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Commando Ranger / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
? [as Jock Lawrence] (credited)
Pencils:
Art Saaf (signed)
Inks:
Art Saaf (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:He who wields the sword of Allah in...
Characters:
Commando Ranger; Selah; Hashim; Abu Ibn Malik

Indexer Notes

Saaf signs on the final page.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 2)

The Sea Devil / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Morgan Hawkins (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; war
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Somewhere in the south Pacific, the Sea Devil...
Characters:
The Sea Devil [Ensign Dewey]; Biff

Tank-Buster
(Table of Contents: 3)

U.S. Rangers / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
R. W. Colt (credited as Capt. R. W. Colt)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A guerrilla camp in the heart of China.
Characters:
U.S. Rangers (featuring Captain Morgan; John; Peter); Moy

Indexer Notes

The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 4)

Glory Forbes / comic story / 7.67 pages

Script:
Bob Hickok (credited) (house name)
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Right this way folks--This way to the...
Characters:
Glory Forbes; Becky; Tonia; Kasko; Mr. Forbes (Glory's father)

Indexer Notes

One third of one page is occupied by the Ownership Statement. Saul Rosen seems to be doing touch-up work on an unknown artist.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page

Script:
Jean Press (credited as Jean M. Press) (editor)
Letters:
typeset

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Private Elmer Pippin and the Colonel's Daughter / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
? [as George R. Cracker] (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; military
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ah..This is the life! A date with...
Characters:
Pvt. Elmer Pippin; Hazel Mitt

Priestess of the Spider Death
(Table of Contents: 7)

The Werewolf Hunter / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Lily Renée (signed as L. Renee)
Inks:
Lily Renée (signed as L. Renee)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:detective-mystery; horror-suspense
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It happened twenty years ago in Cairo...
Characters:
Professor Broussard [the Werewolf Hunter]; Pat Waltham; Jack Waltham; The Spider Woman (villain)
Reprints (1)

Shark-Bait
(Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
? [as Kim Roberts] (credited)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:"Why call him shark-proof?"
Characters:
Captain Blaney; Valborg; Rawson (ship's mate)

Indexer Notes

Copyright 1922 Fiction House, Inc.

[no title indexed]
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The Phantom Falcons / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
? [as William Brooks] (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war; adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Running northeast from Lashio, Burma to Chung-King,...
Characters:
The Phantom Falcons [Jock Sturtevant; Ace Ely; Peg Darnell; John Lovelace; Bud]
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Tank-Buster
    U.S. Rangers
  2. ["He who wields the sword of Allah in..."]
    Commando Ranger
  3. ["Somewhere in the south Pacific, the Sea Devil..."]
    The Sea Devil
  4. Tank-Buster
    U.S. Rangers
  5. ["Right this way folks--This way to the..."]
    Glory Forbes
  6. [no title indexed]
  7. ["Ah..This is the life! A date with..."]
    Private Elmer Pippin and the Colonel's Daughter
  8. Priestess of the Spider Death
    The Werewolf Hunter
  9. Shark-Bait
  10. ["Running northeast from Lashio, Burma to Chung-King,..."]
    The Phantom Falcons
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