Issue Details

Issue	#51
Published	December 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 "The Missing Link"

Characters	The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Madame Futura (first appearance; a fortune teller); Shali (first appearance; a snake charmer); The Missing Link (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 Quicksilver story "Smash It Anyway!"

Characters	Quicksilver [Max]; Winslow Rigger (first appearance; villain); James Eagle (first appearance)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Bill Quackenbush
Inks	Bill Quackenbush

1 page Windy Breeze story

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

7 page Lassie story "The Anti-Gravity Machine"

Characters	Lassie
Script	Bernard Dibble
Pencils	Bernard Dibble
Inks	Bernard Dibble

8 page Sally O'Neil Policewoman story "Soup Simpson's Last Blast"

Characters	Sally O'Neil; Soup Simpson (first appearance; villain; death); Boris Meloff (first appearance; villain); Lefty (first appearance; villain)
Genre	detective
Pencils	Gene Fawcette
Inks	Gene Fawcette

6 page Intellectual Amos story "Kidnapping At Sea"

Characters	Intellectual Amos; The Chief and his gang (first appearance; villains); Miss Venbilt (first appearance)
Genre	humor; adventure; children
Script	Andre LeBlanc
Pencils	Andre LeBlanc
Inks	Andre LeBlanc

2 page text story "Strange Escape"

Letters

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6 page Whistler story "Trap For the Whistler"

Characters	The Whistler [Mallory Drake]; Ambers (first appearance; villain)
Genre	superhero; detective
Script	Vernon Henkel
Pencils	Vernon Henkel
Inks	Vernon Henkel

7 page Destroyer 171 story "The Three Entertainers"

Characters	Jack Hallam (first appearance); Jim Maulsby (first appearance); Bette D'Arcy (first appearance); The Japanese (villains)
Genre	war
Pencils	Al Camy?
Inks	Al Camy?