Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 60
Editing: George Brenner (editor)

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The Barker / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:adventure; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Lookie! Lookie!! Lookie!!!
  • Keywords:circuses; sideshows
Characters:
The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
Reprints (2)

Issue Data

Prof. Zell, Seer, Sees the Stars

The Barker / comic story / 11 pages


  • Genre:adventure; humor
Characters:
The Barker [Clarence "Carnie" Callahan] (introduction; real first name revealed in issue #48); Lena (introduction); Major Midge (introduction); Tiny Tim (introduction); Elasto; Liz Flannery (boarding house keeper); Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Professor Zell (villain, fortune teller)
Synopsis:
A telegram from Colonel Lane to Carnie, inviting him to participate in his circus sideshow, is intercepted by a silver-tongued fortune teller named Zell. When Zell sneaks out of the circus, Carnie and his pals follow him to Waynetown, where they wrest a contract from Zell and then set up shop in Lane's circus.

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Salty Waters / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I don't think I can last 'til morning, Salty!

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Quicksilver / comic story / 7 pages


  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Speed, daring, the perfect co-ordination of mind and muscle...
Characters:
Quicksilver; Deputy Sherrif Bill Tragg; Big John Hammer (villain)

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Windy Breeze / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Quick, Stinky--give me a few licks with this hammer!
Characters:
Windy Breeze

Case No. 16: The Lady Wang

G-2 / comic story / 7 pages


  • Genre:spy
Characters:
G-2 [Captain Don Leash]; The Lady Wang; he Japanese (villains)
Synopsis:
In China, G-2 meets a freedom fighter named Lady Wang, the "Eastern Joan of Arc", and saves her people by routing the Japanese invaders in her village.

It's Your Move, Uncle Sam!

Uncle Sam / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; unnamed U.S. general (cameo only); the Japanese (villains)
Synopsis:
A military general informs Uncle Sam that the Japanese have an inside edge on the United States at their base in Marusu, able to get munitions and troops in place while America has to send their troops halfway across the globe to deal with it. The Japanese know it, but also know that a large American force will spell trouble for them, so the high command decides to attack the American forces from behind. Uncle Sam and Buddy willingly let themselves be captured so they can learn enemy plans, then escape to lead U.S. foces against the foe.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

Uncle Sam addresses the General as "one of my most brilliant nephews".

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Chic Carter / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:detective-mystery; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The reporters laughed when they heard about the Ice Fiend!
Characters:
Chic Carter

text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

The Case of the Criminal Corpse

Sally O'Neil Policewoman / comic story / 8 pages


  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Sally O'Neil; Dr. Doom (villain; introduction; death)

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Destroyer 171 / comic story / 7 pages


  • Genre:war; military
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Destroyer 171 embarks on the strangest voyage of her adventuresome career...
Characters:
Lt. Commander Harvey Blake

The Bumbershoot Jump!

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

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