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Issue Details

Issue #v1#1 [1]
Published September-October 1948
Frequency Bi-Monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Robert D. Wheeler; Katherine Urban (story editor); Mel Cummin (art director)

Cover Details

Genre Crime
Pencils L. B. Cole (signed)
Inks L. B. Cole (signed)
Colors L. B. Cole? (signed)

1 page letters page "Fire at Will"

Notes On the inside front cover. Letter from the editor and letters from readers of Young King Cole.

8 page Toni Gayle story "Case of the Sacred Cobra"

Characters Toni Gayle
Genre Adventure
Pencils Janice Valleau ?
Inks Janice Valleau

Half page Kellogg's Krumbles advertisement

Script ? (ad copy)
Letters Typeset

Half page filler

Script Milt Hammer
Pencils Milt Hammer
Inks Milt Hammer
Letters Milt Hammer ?
Notes 2 single-panel gags.

1 page Boitram the Boiglar filler

Genre Humor
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Letters Art Helfant ?

4 page True Lives of Crime story "Two Bright Boys"

Genre Crime

1 page filler

Genre Humor
Script Milt Hammer
Pencils Milt Hammer
Inks Milt Hammer
Letters Milt Hammer ?
Notes 4 single-panel gags.

2 page text story "Masked Death"

Genre Crime
Letters Typeset

1 page filler

Genre Humor
Script Milt Hammer
Pencils Milt Hammer
Inks Milt Hammer
Letters Milt Hammer ?
Notes 4 single-panel gags.

9 page The Gunmaster story "Green Suit Murders"

Characters Gunmaster [Gregory Gayle]; Toni Gayle
Genre Crime

1 page filler "The Story behind the Italian Beretta"

Synopsis facts about the gun Beretta
Genre History; Fact
Script Harry Lazarus
Pencils Harry Lazarus (signed)
Inks Harry Lazarus (signed)

1 page filler "The Introduction of the Shoulder Holster"

Synopsis facts about shoulder holsters
Genre History; Fact
Script Harry Lazarus
Pencils Harry Lazarus (signed)
Inks Harry Lazarus (signed)

1 page Crime Run-Down You Spot the Criminal activity

Synopsis Solve the crime given various clues
Genre Crime
Pencils Harry Lazarus ?
Inks Harry Lazarus ?

2 page filler

Script Milt Hammer
Pencils Milt Hammer
Inks Milt Hammer
Letters Milt Hammer ?
Notes 8 single-panel gags.

1 page Boitram the Boiglar filler

Genre Humor
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Letters Art Helfant ?
Notes On the inside back cover.

1 page Schwinn Bicycles advertisement

Script ? (ad copy)
Letters Typeset
Notes On the back cover.