Issue Details

Issue	#12
Published	January-February 1948
Cover Price	0.10 usd
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details

Characters	Marshall Tom Smith
Genre	western
Pencils	Charles Paris ?
Inks	Charles Paris ?

6 page story "Boss of the Big House!"

Characters	Lewis E. Lawes
Synopsis	bio of prison warden and reformer Lewis E. Lawes
Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Jack Lehti
Inks	Jack Lehti

1 page Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll advertisement "The Logjam Rescue"

Characters	Captain Tootsie; Rollo
Genre	superhero; ad
Pencils	C. C. Beck (signed)
Inks	Pete Costanza (signed)

4 page Famous Disasters story "The City That Was Drowned"

Synopsis	story of the Johnstown flood.
Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Howard Sherman ?
Inks	Howard Sherman ?

2 page Hollywood Sports filler

Characters	Katherine Hepburn; Judy Canova; Johnny Mack Brown; Lou Costello; June Allyson; Humphrey Bogart
Genre	bio; celebrity
Script	Phil Berube (signed)
Pencils	Phil Berube (signed)
Inks	Phil Berube (signed)

7 page story "The Marshall Who Tamed A Town"

Characters	Marshall Tom Smith
Genre	bio
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Charles Paris ?
Inks	Charles Paris ?

2 page Just Imagine story "Another Ice Age!"

Genre	Science Fiction
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Virgil Finlay
Inks	Virgil Finlay
Notes	Sequence, art and reprint: All added by Denys Howard, 2004-03-03.
Reprinted	in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #2 (October-November 1950); in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #253 (June 1972)

1 page You Tell Us! letters page

Letters

typeset

3 page Daredevil Jobs story "The Human Cannonball"

Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Howard Sherman ?
Inks	Howard Sherman ?

Half page Fantastic Facts filler

Genre	fact
Pencils	Jack Farr
Inks	Jack Farr

4 page story "The Wizard of Winter"

Characters	Snoeshoes Thompson
Synopsis	pioneer of American skiing
Genre	bio
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Howard Sherman ?
Inks	Howard Sherman ?

2 page A Famous First Feature story "The Twist of A Dial"

Characters	John Logie Baird
Synopsis	John Logie Baird becomes the first person to transmit pictures by wireless.
Genre	bio
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Win Mortimer
Inks	Win Mortimer

2 page Junior Journal text article

Characters	Oliver Herzog; Freddie Kile; Eugene Babb; Joe Ware; Ben Holme; Laverne Bucci; Nancy Haertlein; Anne Farrell; Joan Rigney
Genre	fact; bio
Script	Stookie Allen (signed)
Pencils	Stookie Allen (signed)
Inks	Stookie Allen (signed)
Letters	typeset

story "How G-Men Are Trained"

Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger and; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Charles Paris ?
Inks	Charles Paris ?
Notes	2nd in a series