Popular Comics comic books issue 23

Stories and art by Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Edwina Dumm, Bill Holman, Harold Gray, Frank Willard, Percy Crosby, Walter Berndt, J. R. Williams, William Ferguson, Martin Branner, Martha Orr, Gus Edson, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Carl Ed, Sol Hess, Wallace Carlson, Stookie Allen, Al Posen, Henry Sperry, W. C. Brigham, A. W. Nugent, and Ed Leffingwell. Edited by comics pioneers M.C. Gaines and Sheldon Mayer. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. After the Purple Cross Gang fails to kill Pat, they set out to pull their biggest bank job yet. Connie's comic clumsiness finally pushes the Dragon Lady too far. Smilin' Jack and his sidekick Velvet set out for the South Seas to search for the missing aviator Major McCloud. Also featuring popular strips Little Orphan Annie, Skippy, Smokey Stover and Gasoline Alley. Moon Mullins; Kitty Higgins; Dick Tracy; Skippy; Always Belittlin'; Smitty; Herby; Tippie; Winnie Winkle; Yankee Privateer; The Gumps; Don Winslow; Chimpsey's Cartoon Circus; Bos'n Hal Sea Scout; Harold Teen; Little Orphan Annie; Jinglet; Them Days Is Gone Forever; Gasoline Alley; Out Our Way; Soldiers of Fortune: Captain Ronald Neil Stuart; Apple Mary; This Curious World; Tiny Tim; Spooky; Simp O'Dill; The Nebbs; Real Magic; Dill and Daffy; Be a Champion; Streaky; Terry and the Pirates; Smokey Stover; Little Joe; Smilin' Jack; Sweeney & Son. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.