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Issue Details

Issue #85
Published August 1946
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36

Cover Details

Characters Dagwood
Genre family; humor
Pencils Chic Young ?
Inks Chic Young ?

1 page text story "The Wizard's Tower"

Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Found on inside front cover.

4 page Blondie story "untitled"

Genre family; humor
Pencils Chic Young (signed)
Inks Chic Young (signed)
Reprinted from dailies

4 page Mandrake the Magician story "untitled"

Genre occult
Script Lee Falk (signed)
Pencils Phil Davis (signed)
Inks Phil Davis (signed)
Reprinted Sunday reprints in 1943

1 page filler "Dollar-A-Dither"

Genre Gags
Script Joe Musial (signed)
Pencils Joe Musial (signed)
Inks Joe Musial (signed)
Notes Contains six one-panel humor gags by Musial plus an ad for the Katzenjammer Kids in "Monkey Business" (Feature Book #44). Gags supplied by readers.

2 page Jan and Aloysius story "untitled"

Genre humor
Script Joe Musial (signed)
Pencils Joe Musial (signed)
Inks Joe Musial (signed)

4 page Buz Sawyer story "untitled"

Genre military; war; adventure
Script Roy Crane?
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted Sunday reprints from 1945.

1 page Heroes on Wing biography (nonfictional) "untitled"

Synopsis Short feature on war hero Lieut. Leon Crane.
Genre military
Script Clayton Knight (signed)
Pencils Clayton Knight (signed)
Inks Clayton Knight (signed)
Letters ?; typeset

6 page The Lone Ranger story "untitled"

Genre western
Script Fran Striker (signed)
Pencils Charles Flanders (signed)
Inks Charles Flanders (signed)
Reprinted Sunday page reprints from 1943.

4 page Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye story "untitled"

Genre humor
Reprinted 1942 reprints

4 page Secret Agent X-9 story "untitled"

Genre detective
Script Robert Storm (signed)
Pencils Mel Graff (signed)
Inks Mel Graff (signed)
Reprinted 1942 daily reprints

1 page Hi Stars filler "untitled"

Genre humor
Script Floyd Torbert (signed)
Pencils Floyd Torbert (signed)
Inks Floyd Torbert (signed)

1 page story "untitled"

Genre gags
Pencils R. Gustavson; Gene Carr; George Wolfe; Scott Brown
Inks R. Gustavson; Gene Carr; George Wolfe; Scott Brown
Notes Four separate one-panel cartoons on the inside back cover.

1 page Little Acorns illustration "Apartment House"

Genre humor
Script Bob Dunn (signed)
Pencils Bob Dunn (signed)
Inks Bob Dunn (signed)
Notes Found on back cover.