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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Vince Fago*
Notes The art credits for this issue are in dispute. Some sources list Ken Bald as the cover and interior artist, though Vincent Fago, Timely's interim editor for the drafted Stan Lee, recalled, "I hired a friend from the animation business, Pauline Loth, and she did the art for the first Miss America book." (Al Fago quotation from Les Daniels' Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991), p. 54.) Fago may have been referring to only the interior art credits.

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Ken Bald
Inks Ken Bald
Notes The art credits for this issue are in dispute. Some sources list Ken Bald as the cover and interior artist, though Vincent Fago, Timely's interim editor for the drafted Stan Lee, recalled, "I hired a friend from the animation business, Pauline Loth, and she did the art for the first Miss America book." (Al Fago quotation from Les Daniels' Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991), p. 54.) Fago may have been referring to only the interior art credits.

17 page Miss America story "Baron Shinto the Gouger"

Characters V: Shinto the Gouger (I, D), the Japanese
Genre superhero
Pencils Ken Bald
Inks George Klein

15 page Miss America story "The Mystery of the Monster Man"

Characters Miss America; Professor Boris Drakla (Death); Lifer Larch
Genre superhero
Pencils Ken Bald
Inks George Klein

12 page Miss America story "Murders By Yogi"

Genre superhero
Pencils Ken Bald
Inks George Klein