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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 typeset

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?