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Issue Details

Issue #V8 #5 [83]
Published July 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Robert D. Wheeler
Notes TARGET COMICS, Vol. 8, No. 5, July 1947, published monthly by The Premium Group of Comics, a Division of The Premium Service Co. Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 119 West 19th Street, New York 11, N. Y.

Cover Details

Pencils Nina Albright (signed)
Inks Nina Albright (signed)
Notes TARGET COMICS, Vol. 8, No. 5, July 1947, published monthly by The Premium Group of Comics, a Division of The Premium Service Co. Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 119 West 19th Street, New York 11, N. Y.

1 page Target Hits and Misses letters page

Letters typeset
Notes On inside front cover.

8 page The Cadet Featuring Kit Carter story "Kit Carter and Dan Merry are calling on Mary Black with Ted Stilwell..."

Pencils Nina Albright (signed)
Inks Nina Albright (signed)

1 page Target Toons story "Listen-with my brains and your money, what can we lose??"

Script Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer (signed)
Notes The top half of the first page is an ad for Kellogg's Krumbles.

6 page Candid Charlie story "Old Rufus Perkins--the biggest, braggingest fisherman in town..."

Pencils Robert Sale [as Bob Q.] (signed)
Inks Robert Sale [as Bob Q.] (signed)

7 page Pete Stockbridge, The Chameleon story "A palatial gambling ship moored beyond the law's authority..."

Pencils William Allison?
Inks William Allison?

2 page text story "A King's Command"

Script John Graham
Pencils E. J. Reeves (illustration)
Inks E. J. Reeves (illustration)

Half page Target Toons filler "Would you say that a mistletoe is a vine or a tree?"

Script Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer (signed)
Notes On bottom half of page. Top half is a Rollfast (bicycles and roller skates) ad.

8 page Gary Stark story "It Is War!"

Script Don Rico (signed)
Pencils Don Rico (signed)
Inks Don Rico (signed)
Letters Don Rico

5 page Bull's-Eye Bill story "Bull's-Eye Bill easily handles an old-time stagecoach..."

Pencils John Prentice
Inks John Prentice

1 page [Target Toons] filler "You ought to be ashamed of yourself for being left back..."

Script Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer (signed)

1 page Heathcliff the Hobo story "I'm so hungry I could eat the side of a barn!"

Script Art Elfant (signed)
Pencils Art Elfant (signed)
Inks Art Elfant (signed)

6 page The Target and the Targeteers story "Fighting to help their wartime comrades, the Targeteers pounce upon a greedy swindler..."

Pencils Ken Battefield (signed)
Inks Ken Battefield (signed)

1 page Two-Ton O'Toole filler "Oh boy! This oughta be good!"

Script Art Elfant (signed)
Pencils Art Elfant (signed)
Inks Art Elfant (signed)

1 page Targetoons filler "What's a hill? Er-a piece of land with its back up."

Pencils Milt Hammer
Inks Milt Hammer
Notes On inside back cover.

1 page Fisk Bike Tires advertisement "When a Slip Meant Death"

Pencils Al Plastino (signed)
Inks Al Plastino (signed)
Notes On back cover.