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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published June 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing George Brenner

Cover Details

Characters The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
Genre adventure; humor
Pencils Al Bryant
Inks Al Bryant

11 page Barker story "The Curse of Raz-Ma-Taz"

Characters The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Ali Karuf (first appearance; villain); Helena (first appearance; a bareback rider)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

6 page Intellectual Amos story "Old Man Mose's Rabbit Foot"

Characters Intellectual Amos; Old Man Mose (first appearance)
Genre humor; adventure; children
Script Andre LeBlanc
Pencils Andre LeBlanc
Inks Andre LeBlanc

1 page Salty Waters story

Genre humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

8 page Sally O'Neil Policewoman story "Death the Marksman"

Characters Sally O'Neil; Charley Chowder (first appearance; villain); Garrus (first appearance; villain)
Genre detective
Pencils Gene Fawcette
Inks Gene Fawcette

1 page Windy Breeze story "The Motor Magnet"

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

7 page Tinker Tom story "The Atomic Soap Pill"

Characters Tinker Tom [Tom Tinker] (first appearance); Mrs. Tom Tinker (first appearance); Tom Tinker, Jr. (first appearance)
Script Al Stahl
Pencils Al Stahl
Inks Al Stahl

7 page Lassie story "Money Trouble"

Characters Lassie
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

2 page text story "The Trap"

Letters typeset

6 page Whistler story "Another Namesake Murder"

Characters The Whistler [Mallory Drake] (last appearance); Julius Caesar (first appearance; villain; death); Cleopatra Queen (first appearance; death); Abraham Lincoln (first appearance; death)
Genre superhero; detective
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams

7 page Quicksilver story "The Thirteenth Floor"

Characters Quicksilver [Max]; A gang of crooks (first appearance; villains)
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Quackenbush
Inks Bill Quackenbush