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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published January-February 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Mort Weisinger, (actual)
Notes Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008)

Cover Details - "Double For Death!"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Tex; Andre
Genre adventure
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Marvin Stein ?
Colors Jack Kirby
Notes Cover colors credit from Greg Theakston, via the GCD Error List (5 April 2008)

12 page Boy Commandos story "Brooklyn-- the Walking Book of Knowledge"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Tex; Andre
Synopsis Unknown to the Commandos a scientist uses Brooklyn in an experiment that makes him a walking encyclopedia.
Genre adventure
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Charles Nicholas?

12 page Boy Commandos story "The Gem King"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Andre; Tex; Smokey Elvery; Cannon Miller; Muggs Fargus; Beans McGraw; Tony Fabien; Buggsy Jones; Henry King
Synopsis Rip disguises himself as Smokey in order to discover who the secret boss of a criminal gang is.
Genre adventure
Script Gardner Fox?
Pencils Carmine Infnantino?
Inks John Giunta?

Half page Daffy and Doodle filler

Script Lit-Win
Pencils Lit-Win
Inks Lit-Win

2 page text article "Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox, Babe"

Script R. H. Joseph
Letters typeset

Half page Peg filler

Genre teen; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)

1 page Shorty filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff (signed)

9 page Boy Commandos story "Solitary Confinement"

Characters Bryan Clay; Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Andre; Tex
Synopsis When criminal Bryan Clay gets out of prison, the Commandos shadow to see if he'll lead them to the stolen loot.
Genre adventure
Script Jack Kirby?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Marvin Stein?

Half page Shorty filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff (signed)