Volume: 7
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
Editing: Tom DeAngelo (managing editor)

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Brass Knuckles and Slap Happy (from Sparky Watts) / cover / 1 page

Issue Data

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Joe Palooka / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Howda do. I'm Mister Pat Casey, the well-known sport preemoter.
Synopsis:
Two boys, Casey and Max, build an airplane from junk parts. When it crashes, Joe Palooka buys them a small train. Knobby Walsh gets rail tickets belonging to someone else and is found out. Joe Palooka sees a rabbit in a country meadow but, when he returns two hours later, flowers have been torn up and trash scattered everywhere.
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Sparky Watts / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:humor; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:One week--and still no water!
Synopsis:
Two inventors, Pat Pending and Doc Static, attempt to bring water to desperately dry Appledale. Slap Happy accidentally turns on the cosmic ray machine, sending Sparky Watts hurtling through clouds, creating rain.

Two Strangers

The Skyman / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:And now, what happens to us?
Synopsis:
While exploring the moon, Skyman has fallen into a ravine and been knocked unconscious. He is found by two Germans, Gloria Van Dorn, a beautiful redhead, and Kurt, a vicious Nazi, who tries to steal Skyman's ship. Hidden on the ship are reporter Alec Benson (who had met Gloria in Germany in 1938 and fallen in love with her) and Fawn Carroll, who is in love with Skyman. Skyman slugs Kurt and they take off for home in the rocket ship. But the engines go dead.

Indexer Notes

title from last issue blurb

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Dixie Dugan / comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There's going to be no more dissention in the family from now on
Synopsis:
Last part of sequence about bossy mother-in-law.
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Indexer Notes

Writer and artist credit under logo states "by McEvoy and Striebel"

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Brass Knuckles / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Mart Bailey ? (credited as Marty)
Pencils:
Mart Bailey (credited as Marty)
Inks:
Mart Bailey (credited as Marty)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hello, mister!
Synopsis:
Brass runs away from a little girl who wants him to meet her aunt Ginger. He runs into an ice cream vendor and is helped by a beautiful redhead, who turns our to be Ginger. In the second two page sequence (which has a separate logo), he calls on Ginger with flowers and candy, but leaves when he sees her other suitors, who have looks, strength and money. But Ginger prefers Brass and runs after him.

Good Old Bumpy

text story / 2 pages

Script:
Mart Bailey (signed)
Letters:
typeset

Synopsis:
Three sailors with a parrot are in a bar. When they can't pay their bill, they sell the parrot to another patron, named Good Old Bumpy.

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Cranberry Boggs / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Avast, Cran, stop muggin' up and shove off!
Synopsis:
Cran is impressed by a new "beam trawler" fishing ship, but he falls into the catch and then smells like fish. A little girl is not catching any fish using gumdrops for bait so Cran helps her.
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Bo / comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Why are you sniffing and fussing around the door so much, Bo?
Synopsis:
Junior puts an old sweater on Bo.
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Charlie Chan / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm afraid it's measles, Lee!
Characters:
Synopsis:
Charlie Chan begins to tell the story of the Lottery Murders to his son, Lee.
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All in a Lifetime / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Tell your mother I couldn't find a thing that needs to be done to your teeth.
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Indexer Notes

Lower half of page has small advertisements.

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Hollywood Husband / comic story / 1 page


  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A shave you want?
Synopsis:
The Husband finds he can't get just a shave at a barber shop and, when he goes home, he can't get just a shave there either.
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Tony Trent / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:adventure
  • Job Number:83
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We must be off our course - I don't recognize those islands
Synopsis:
Tony and Liz Doyle, "radio's glamour girl," are flying to Tokyo when their plane goes off course over the Burile islands. The plane is attacked by communist planes displaying the red star. The Jabo Jockeys come to their aid and shoot down several planes. Back on the ground, the General tells the pilot, Captain Bailey, that he is proud of the flyers even if they caused an international incident.
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