Issue Details

Issue	#43
Published	August 1944
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	60
Editing	George Brenner

Cover Details

Characters	The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
Genre	adventure; humor
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole

11 page Barker story "The Spider Man"

Characters	The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Cappy Kane (villain); Press Hardt (villain); Spudo the Spider Man [Clarence Twiddle] (first appearance; has four arms)
Genre	adventure; humor
Script	Joe Millard
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole

1 page Salty Waters story

Genre	humor
Script	Bernard Dibble
Pencils	Bernard Dibble
Inks	Bernard Dibble

7 page G-2 story "Guns and Glamour"

Characters	Jolene Joy (first appearance); the Japanese (villains)
Genre	spy
Script	Don Rico?
Pencils	Don Rico
Inks	Don Rico

8 page Sally O'Neil Policewoman story "Death By the Clock"

Characters	Sally O'Neil; Jasper Jules (first appearance; death); Matty Dolan (first appearance; villain); Dusty Dolan (first appearance; villain)
Genre	detective
Script	Al Bryant?
Pencils	Al Bryant
Inks	Al Bryant

6 page Uncle Sam story "The Allotment Check Thieves"

Characters	Uncle Sam; Heffy and his gang (first appearance; villains)
Genre	war; occult
Pencils	Ed Dobrotka?
Inks	Ed Dobrotka?

1 page Windy Breeze story "Here Lies Windy Breeze...And How He Lies and Lies and Lies!"

Characters	Windy Breeze
Genre	humor
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns]
Inks	Jack Cole

7 page Quicksilver story "Dagger Marlin Hangs Twice"

Characters	Quicksilver [Max]; Dagger Marlin (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Bill Quackenbush?
Inks	Bill Quackenbush?

2 page text story "The Rocket Train"

Letters

typeset

6 page Chic Carter story "The Case of the Drowned Corpse"

Characters	Chic Carter; Shane (first appearance; villain); Mr. Kates (first appearance; death)
Genre	detective
Script	Vernon Henkel
Pencils	Vernon Henkel
Inks	Vernon Henkel

7 page Destroyer 171 story Mutiny Aboard the U.S.S. "Pawnee"

Characters	Japanese (villains)
Genre	war
Pencils	Al Camy?
Inks	Al Camy?