4Most comic books issue 3

Cover by Jim Wilcox. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Harold DeLay, Jim Wilcox, Art Helfant, Nina Albright, Milt Hammer, Marjorie Lyndon Smith, Jack Callahan and Tex Blaisdell. Sometimes listed as 4Most #23. Adventures of clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s. An embittered former tennis pro seeks revenge after cadet Dick Cole beats him in an exhibition match. Kit Carter, The Cadet, figures out who killed Roger Barnes with a little help from Sherlock Holmes, in a strip with art by early female comics artist Nina Albright. Edison and Jerry stop a thief and discover a family wracked by financial hardship. Dick Cole; Boitram the Boiglar; Edison Bell; The Wandering Top; The Cyclone Spinner and Rack; Heathcliff the Hobo; A Room There Was; The Cadet; Grover and Bonnie; 4Most Fun. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Harold DeLay. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Roy Garn, Al Fagaly, Harold DeLay, Bart Tumey, John Jordan and Mickey Spillane. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. Dick Cole and his pal Simba face Nazi spies when they go canoeing in the wild rapids of Alaska. Meanwhile, Edison Bell and Jerry face Nazi spies while on a fishing trip in the woods. The text story "Woodsman's Test" is an early story by hardboiled detective author Mickey Spillane, back when he was writing comics. Dick Cole; Edison Bell; Woodsman's Test; Dan'l Flannel; The Cadet (Kit Carter): American Olympics. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jim Wilcox. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Harold DeLay, Jim Wilcox, H. Blair, Walter Johnson, Milt Hammer, Harvey K. Fuller and B. Gordon Guth. Sometimes listed as 4Most #19. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. Dick Cole and his pal Simba find action while working at a lumber camp for the summer. The Cadet, Kit Carter, gets involved in a crooked golf tournament and battles gangsters. Candid Charlie encounters movie star Nora Beasley, and he and Merkin Gerkin must de-glamorize her. Also featuring vintage comics ads starring "Pepsi" the Pepsi-Cola Cop, the Fleer Dubble Bubble gang and Bobby Shelby, in a bicycle ad featuring the Ringling Circus and the Flying Wallendas. Dick Cole; Edison Bell; Cartooning for Kids; Top Man; Merkin Gerkin; The Cadet; Candid Charlie. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Nina Albright and L. B. Cole. Sometimes listed as 4Most #34. Adventures of clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s. Kit Carter, The Cadet, and his pal Dan must defend themselves and their classmates from two tigers while armed only with spears. Lem the Grem uses gremlin magic to help a man whose "shopping service" is 50 years too early to be successful, and somehow ends up chasing gangsters down Main St. on an elephant. Toni Gayle's reporter boyfriend stands her up for a date because he's tracking the dangerous X Gang, so Toni gets angry and decides to track them down herself, only to find Ty strapped into a guillotine. Gorgeous tiger-attack cover by L. B. Cole. Toni Gayle; The Cadet; Avalanche; Lem the Grem. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by B. Gordon Guth. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, and B. Gordon Guth. Sometimes listed as 4Most #11. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. Cadet Dick Cole gets a summer job at a lumber yard, and immediately runs afoul of the churlish Wild John and his bullying cohorts. Amateur photographer Candid Charlie accidentally captures a Nazi U-boat. Edison Bell and Jerry use kayaks to defeat a Nazi spy ring. Edison Bell tells young readers how to make a "Victory Kayak." (WWII-era readers were big on "victory" items.) Dick Cole; Edison Bell; Victory Kayak!; Candid Charlie; The Seventeenth Letter; The Cadet. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Al McWilliams, Nina Albright, and Ray Gill. Sometimes listed as 4Most #28. Adventures of clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s. A wealthy horse collector sets his sights on the Arabian stallion belonging to the headmaster of Dick Cole's academy. Edison Bell and Jerry get involved in the search for a stolen "counting horse" - that is, a horse that can count. Lem the Grem uses gremlin magic to help a high school teacher take on his corrupt superintendent. Dick Cole; Lem the Grem; Rustler's Paradise; Edison Bell; The Future Champion; The Cadet. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Plastino. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Bobbie Ross, Al Fagaly, Bart Tumey (credited as Ed Ryan), Harold DeLay, and John Jordan. Sometimes listed as 4Most #7. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. A new program is introduced to the Farr Academy under the guise of military training, but to Dick Cole and his pals it sounds more like Nazi brainwashing. Li'l Abner-like Danl Flannel decides he wants to move to the city and become a gentleman. Edison Bell organizes a junior volunteer league to help around town with the war effort, but bullies want to interfere. Edison Bell shows young readers how to make helpful household gadgets for the war effort. Dick Cole; Danl Flannel: Gen'l'man Dan'l; Patriotism Begins at Home!; A Dog Enlists; Edison Bell; The Cadet. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Walter Johnson. Stories and art by Ray Gill, Jim Wilcox, Walter Johnson and B. Gordon Guth. Sometimes listed as 4Most #15. Four different stories featuring clean-cut teen heroes of the 1940s from Novelty Press. While canoeing in the woods, Dick Cole and pal Simba get caught up in the intrigue over a mysterious letter they were asked to deliver. When the Daunton academy baseball team plays the state prison team, Kit Carter gets caught up in a jailbreak and bank robbery. The search for a missing dog leads Edison Bell and his pals to the house of the Horrible Hermit. Edison Bell tells young readers how to build a Mouse Trap Cannon. Dick Cole; Edison Bell: The Case of the Dognapped Collie; Make Edison Bell's Mouse Trap Cannon; Candid Charlie; Murder on Record; The Cadet. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.