Sparkler Comics (1941 2nd Series) 79
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Issue #79
Published May 1948 by United Features Syndicate.$12.50
Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Burne Hogarth, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Sparling, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd, Rudolph Dirks, J. P. Williams, Arnie Mossler and Raeburn Van Buren. United's anthology featured reprints of early comic strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. The family's Arctic adventure continues from the previous issue, as the Captain and the Kids finally leave the North Pole and sail to Alaska. Notorious bandit Wild Bill Hickup is released from prison after 99 years. He returns to Grinning Skull, Arizona to seek revenge on the descendants of the sheriff who arrested him, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with fine art by Raeburn van Buren. Enemy agents rush across Mexico to get to Jaboo Jones and Dr. Dome before Hap Hopper does. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp and a Tarzan strip with art by Burne Hogarth. Li'l Abner; Hap Hopper; Nancy; Captain and the Kids; Strange as It Seems; Sparkler's Stars of the Air; Tarzan; Dink O'Day; Abbie an Slats. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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