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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published September-October 1948
Cover Price 0.10 usd
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Reno Brothers
Genre Western
Pencils Dan Barry
Inks Dan Barry

7 page Reno Brothers story "Renegade Reno Brothers"

Characters Reno Brothers
Genre western
Script Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils Dan Barry (signed)
Inks Dan Barry (signed)

1 page Fantastic Facts story

Genre fact
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff

1 page Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Creme Oil advertisement "Sam Takes Himself for a Ride"

Characters Sam Spade; Effie
Genre detective
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Don Komisarow ?

6 page story "Combat Photographer"

Characters Matthew Brady
Genre fact; bio
Script Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils Fred Ray [as Fray]
Inks Fred Ray [as Fray]

6 page story "Headline Hunter"

Characters Lowell Thomas
Genre fact; bio
Script Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray

2 page Junior Journal filler

Characters Steve Smith; Frankie Groves; Betty Skelton; Nick Miller' Caol Hall; Calvin Nullmeyer
Genre fact
Script Stookie Allen
Pencils Stookie Allen
Inks Stookie Allen

5 page Tommy Tomorrow story "The Comet Doom"

Characters Tommy Tomorrow
Genre science Fiction
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Steve Brodie

1 page Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll story "Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear"

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

1 page You Tell Us! letters page

Letters typeset

2 page Famous Unsolved Mysteries story "The Ship With the Phantom Crew"

Synopsis story of the Mary Celeste
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils Win Mortimer ?
Inks Win Mortimer ?

5 page Famous Disasters story "The Quake That Split a City"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer

2 page Know Your Country text article "The Story of the Washington Monument"

Genre fact
Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset

6 page story "King of the Westerns"

Characters Zane Grey
Genre fact; bio
Script Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils Howard Sherman ?
Inks Howard Sherman ?