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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published September 1947
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Info added by Craig Delich (August 6, 2006).

Cover Details - "Rustlers' Roundup; Races Against Death"

Characters Streaky Smith; Tex Granger; Pauline; Bing Crosby [photograph]
Genre adventure
Notes Info added by Craig Delich (August 6, 2006).

1 page Boys' Hero of the Month text article "Bing Crosby"

Genre Fact
Pencils ? (Photograph)
Inks ? (Photograph)
Letters Typeset
Editing Kenneth L. Hall
Notes Inside Front Cover

5 page Streaky Smith of Essex High story "... Races Against Death"

Characters Streaky Smith; Mr. Samson; Tommy Samson
Synopsis Streaky is a counselor at the Pinetree Fresh Air Camp, teaching boys who never had a chance to learn how to swim and paddle a canoe.
Genre Teen

2 page Coach's Corner text article "Get in the Swim"

Characters Robert "Bob" Kiphuth
Genre Fact
Script Robert Kiphuth
Letters Typeset
Notes Illustrated article about swimming by the Director of Athletics and coach of the swimming team at Yale University

5 page Hector story "untitled"

Characters Hector Hibble; Mr. Hybarr; Nancy; Mrs. Hibble
Genre Teen; Humor

4 page Perils of Pauline story "Perils of Pauline"

Characters Pearl White [Betty Hutton]; Mike; Julia
Synopsis Pearl White, queen of the old-time movie serials,' begins her daredevil career with a traveling troupe of stage players.
Genre Drama; Adventure
Notes Adaptation of the 1947 Paramount motion picture

6 page Tex Granger story "untitled"

Characters Tex Granger; Luke Conway
Synopsis Roundup time in Railhead finds two huge herds coming into town: Tex Granger at the head of one drive and Luke Conway driving the other, with a gang of imported gun-slingers.
Genre Western

Half page letters page "Mail Call"

Genre Fact
Letters Typeset

Half page activity "You're a Magician"

Genre Fact
Letters Typeset

4 page text story "High Swamp"

Genre Adventure
Script Jim Chapman
Letters Typeset

5 page The Adventures of Bigbrain Billy story "The Case of the Hidden Eye"

Characters Billy; Mayor Hartley
Synopsis "Bigbrain Billy," the smartest boy in the world, puts science on his side as he challenges the ruthless robbers of Midvale's city treasury.
Genre Teen

1 page Adventures of R.C. and Quickie advertisement "Drama on the Highway"

Characters R.C.; Quickie; William Boyd [Hopalong Cassidy]
Genre Drama; Adventure
Notes Comic strip-type ad for Royal Crown Cola (with brief cameo appearance by William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd); Back Cover