Boy Comics comic books issue 18
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Issue #18
Published Oct 1944 by Lev Gleason.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Cover by Charles Biro. Stories and art by R.W. Hall, Radcliffe, Alan Mandel, Dick Briefer, Dick Wood and Charles Biro. An anthology title from publisher Lev Gleason and his primary creator, Charles Biro, featuring teen hero Crimebuster and his nemesis Iron Jaw. Crimebuster tracks the murderous thug known as Johnny-on-the-Spot, in a particularly violent pre-Code story. Yankee Longago has a Groundhog Day-style time-loop adventure that teaches the importance of war bonds, a wartime fundraising effort, featuring art by Dick Briefer. Swoop Storm uses his new Gull Plane, a flap-winged plane like Airboy's Birdie, to take on Axis forces during WWII, featuring art possibly by Archie creator Bob Montana. Crimebuster; Swoop Storm; True Story of Jan Smudek; Daredevils Greatest Battle; Little Dynamite; Young Robinhood and his Band; Yankee Longago. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #18
Published Sep 1948 by Charlton Comics Group.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
On the cover, "Hi Pals" is misspelled as "Hy Pals". In order of appearance: "Calamity Jane, Queen of the Old West..." art by Lee Sherman; "Young Jesse James" reprinted in Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #52; "Denver Muss and Bushey Barns" by Clinton Harmon; "The Action Story of Wild Bill Hickok" reprinted in Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #51; "Annie Oakley" art by Joe Orlando; "The Tally Book of Dusty Roads" art by Lee Sherman; "Legends of Paul Bunyan"; and "Roping a Steer"art by Lee Sherman. "Hotel Holdup" text story reprinted in Six-Gun Heroes (1950 Fawcett/Charlton) #32. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.
