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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?