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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published August 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Ned L. Pines*
Notes Genre, art verification and character appearances added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters Commando Cubs (main cover); Doc Strange [inset]
Genre war
Pencils Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Inks Alex Schomburg [as Schomburg] (signed)
Notes Genre, art verification and character appearances added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

12 page Commando Cubs story "Protecting Professor Musselbound"

Characters Commando Cubs; Professor Musselbound
Genre war
Script Richard Hughes
Pencils Bob Oksner (signed)
Inks Bob Oksner (signed)
Colors Richard Hughes
Notes Story title, genre, art verification and character appearances added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

10 page Doc Strange story "The Light-Absorbing Machine"

Characters Doc Strange
Genre superhero
Notes Story title and genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page text story "Phantom Army"

Genre western
Script Gerald Dievers (signed)
Pencils ? (1 panel art)
Inks ? (1 panel art)
Letters typeset
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

8 page The Ghost story "Menace of the Yeast Creature"

Characters The Ghost
Genre superhero
Pencils August Froehlich
Inks August Froehlich
Notes Story title and genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page text story "Kidnapper's Cave"

Genre adventure
Script Frank Coleton (signed)
Pencils ? (1 panel art)
Inks ? (1 panel art)
Letters typeset
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

7 page The Lone Eagle story "Attack on the Nazi Rubber Factory"

Characters Lone Eagle
Genre war
Notes Story title and genre added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

1 page text story "The Secret Message"

Genre war
Script Bob Stanwood (signed)
Pencils ? (1 panel art)
Inks ? (1 panel art)
Letters typeset
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

7 page Jimmy Cole story "Saboteurs and Lumps of Coal"

Characters Jimmy Cole
Genre detective
Script Stanley Kaufmann?
Pencils Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Inks Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Colors Stanley Kaufmann?
Notes Story title, genre and art credit revision by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Art credit formerly given to Al Camy.

1 page Ozzie the Seminole filler "untitled"

Characters Ozzie
Genre humor
Pencils Larry Riley
Inks Larry Riley
Notes Entire sequence added by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006). Art ID from Gary Watson, May 2008.