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Issue Details

Issue #28
Published 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 28." No code number. Copyright 1939 by NEA Service, Inc. Even though the title of the comic is "Wash Tubbs" and all the strips reprinted are Wash Tubbs dailies, all the story logos are "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune," which was the title of the Sunday version of the strip.

Cover Details

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Bull Dawson
Genre adventure
Notes Cover is redrawn from first panel of Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily strip from 1938.12.31. The scene is prior to where the story in Sequence one begins.

3 page Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune story "Gangway, soldiers! I'm coming out!"

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Bull Dawson; Adolfo de la Cucaracha
Synopsis Wash has followed Carol McKee and her father to Panazuela. He brought Captain Easy, who was suffering from amnesia from a blow on the head. They are thrown into prison when a revolution starts. When the prison is shelled, Easy is hit on the head and recovers his memory. The group hijacks a ride to the airport. Meanwhile, Bull Dawson, who has been heading the army of the President, sends the ruler on a plane ride while planing on taking the country's treasury for himself.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Notes Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white. Story starts in the middle of the action with the first panel explaining what has gone on before. Parts of some panels are cut.
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939.01.04 [last panel]-1939.01.07, 1939.01.09-1939.01.13 [first panel only]

5 page Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune story "No, Dawson! No! Thees money belongs to my country"

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Bull Dawson; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee
Synopsis Bull Dawson steals the country's $6 million in gold, but the boat gets hung up on a sandbar. He frames Mr. McKee as the thief and pretends to join the rebels. Easy creates a diversion to rescue McKee, then has a brawl with Dawson to gain control of the gold-laden boat.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939.01.13 [last three panels]-1939.01.14, 1939.01.16-1939.01.20, 1939.01.21 [first panel cut], 1939.01.23-1939.01.28, 1939.01.31 [first panel], 1939.01.30, 1939.01.31 [last two panels, second panel cut]

11 page Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune story "Oh, my gosh! Here come the rebels an' we're stuck on a sandbar..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; I.R. Splendix; Rowden Splendix; Mother Grey; Virginia
Synopsis Easy gets control of the boat from Dawson and dumps the gold overboard in order to get away. The group is picked up by a ship and return to the United States. In the offices of McKee Industries, I.R. Splendix and his son, Rowden, plot to steal Carol away from Wash. Mr. Splendix sends Rowden to show Wash and Easy around McKee Industries, but Easy recognizes Rowden as the man who knocked him on the head and gave him amnesia. After Rowden recovers from the beating that Easy gives him, he works on his plan to get Wash in trouble and steal Carol. Splendix gets Easy out of the way by having him promoted to assistant production manager of the hairpin department.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Notes Strip from 1939.02.06 is omitted.
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939.02.01-1939.02.04, 1939.02.07, 1939.02.08, 1939.02.09 [second and third panels cut], 1939.02.10, 1939.02.11, 1939.02.12 [third panel cut], 1939.02.14 [third panel cut], 1939.02.15 [last panel cut], 1939.02.16 [first three panels cut], 1939.02.17, 1939.02.18, 1939.02.20-1939.02.25, 1939.02.27-1939.03.04, 1939.03.06-1939.03.09

8 page Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune story "This is the private detective, Rowden, who's been..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; I.R. Splendix; Rowden Splendix; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Jackie Wartts [bum]
Synopsis Rowden Splendix plants a fake story about Wash's father returning from Africa, then hires a bum to play the part. The bum makes a shambles of the McKee mansion and Wash is helpless to stop him.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939.03.10, 1939.03.11, 1939.03.13-1939.03.18, 1939.03.20-1939.03.25, 1939.03.27-1939.04.01

8 page Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune story "Hello, sucker."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; I.R. Splendix; Rowden Splendix; Fifi La Pearl; Bolito Coker; Jackie Wartts [bum]; Virginia
Synopsis With Wash's bum of a father fouling up his relationship with the McKees, Rowden Splendix and his father up the ante by having him take a woman "customer" out on the town. Easy does some detective work and finds out what's going on.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Notes Some strips are printed out of order intentionally.
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939.04.07, 1939.04.08, 1939.04.03-1939.04.06, 1939.04.10 [panels three and four switched], 1939.04.11-1939.04.15, 1939.04.17-1939.04.21 [first two panels]

7 page Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune story "Well, sport, either you'll pay us ten thousand or we'll go..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Fifi La Pearl; Bolito Coker; I.R. Splendix; Jackie Wartts [bum]; Virginia; Mother Grey; Rowden Splendix
Synopsis Easy finds Wash on his "date" with I.R. Splendix's hired girl, Fifi, and substitutes himself at the pair's table. He tells the woman what Splendix's plan is and the girl's "manager" goes to Splendix to shake him down for $10,000 to keep quiet. After Fifi shows up at the McKee's and makes a scene, Wash goes home completely crushed. At home, Mother Grey and Virginia tell him the whole story. Wash, infuriated, threatens to kill Splendix. He goes to Splendix's house and finds that someone else has shot him. The police arrive and Wash goes on the run. He meets up with his bum "father" and hops a freight.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Notes Strips 1939.04.24 and 1939.04.25 omitted.
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939.04.21 [last two panels], 1939.04.22, 1939.04.26-1939.04.29, 1939.05.01-1939.05.06, 1939.05.08, 1939.05.09

8 page Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune story "For sixty years I've led a quiet and peaceful life..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Fifi La Pearl; Bolito Coker; Jackie Wartts [bum]; Mother Grey; Virginia
Synopsis Easy goes to the police and fingers Bolito Coker as the one who killed I.R. Splendix. The police follow up and Wash is cleared. Unfortunately, Wash is still on the run with his bum "father." He uses a dress to disguise himself as a little girl, but that draws unwanted attention from the authorities.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939.05.10, 1939.05.11, 1939.05.13-1939.05.20, 1939.05.22-1939.05.25, 1939.05.26 [panels two and three switched], 1939.05.27 [first two panels]

9 page Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune story "Two tickets to Cincinnati, please!"

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Jackie Wartts [bum]; Milly Wartts; Irwin Wartts
Synopsis Wash, still on the run with his bum "father," hides out on a houseboat. They end up at the farm of the bum's long-deserted wife and son. After a reconciliation, Wash goes off on the houseboat by himself. Easy follows the trail and brings Wash back to the McKees.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Notes Story continues on the inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1939.05.27 [last two panels], 1939.05.29-1939.06.03, 1939.06.05-1939.06.10, 1939.06.12-1939.06.17