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Issue Details

Issue #47
Published April 1945
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 "Samson Smith Vs. Mighty Moose"

Characters The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Cappy Kane (villain); Mighty Moose (first appearance; villain); Duke (first appearance; villain); Runt (first appearance; villain)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

1 page Salty Waters story

Genre humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

7 page Lassie and Laddie story "Seeing the Circus"

Characters Lassie (first appearance); Laddie (first appearance); Roberta (first appearance); Roger (first appearance)
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

8 page Sally O'Neil Policewoman story "Sally Haunts a Ghost"

Characters Sally O'Neil; Mrs. Vanderdough (first appearance); Nick the Chiseler (first appearance; villain); three other crooks (first appearance; villains; one dies)
Genre detective
Pencils Gene Fawcette
Inks Gene Fawcette

6 page Intellectual Amos story "Swami Joe and the Counterfeiters"

Characters Intellectual Amos; Swami Joe (first appearance; villain); Silas P. Pinkbottom (first appearance; villain); other two Varx Brothers (first appearance; villaisn)
Genre humor; adventure; children
Script Andre LeBlanc?
Pencils Andre LeBlanc
Inks Andre LeBlanc

1 page Windy Breeze story "Helium Tires"

Characters Windy Breeze
Genre humor
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole

7 page Quicksilver story "The Vengeance of Boss Bumble"

Characters Quicksilver [Max]; Boss Bumble (first appearance; villain); Avie (first appearance; villain; death); Romby (first appearance; villain; death); Dirk (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Quackenbush
Inks Bill Quackenbush

2 page text story "Motorized Dragonflies"

Letters typeset

6 page Chic Carter story "Big Joe Ryan and the Silver Bracelet"

Characters Chic Carter (last appearance); Big Joe Ryan (first appearance; villain); Louella (first appearance; villain); Blackie (first appearance; villain)
Genre detective
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

7 page Destroyer 171 story "Lifeboat No. 1"

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