Popular Comics comic books issue 48

Cover by William Kent. Stories and art by G. Ellerbrock, William Kent, Kenneth Kennedy, J. R. Williams, Bob Jenney, Clyde Lewis, Fred Harman, Al McWilliams, Gene Ahern, Tom Hickey, Win Smith, Albert Hartje and Bill Ely. An early comic book from Dell, featuring reprinted newspaper comic strips alongside new material. Captured aboard the freighter smuggling munitions, The Masked Pilot and Tom manage to get free and turn the tables on their captors. Martan and Vana's futuristic spaceship catches the attention of Earthbound military forces, as he ponders humankind's warlike ways in language the Silver Surfer would find familiar. On the strange planet, Captain Tornado falls into an enormous web and battles a giant spider. Martan the Marvel Man; Captain Tornado; Wally Williams, American Boy; The Masked Pilot; Gang Busters; Herky; Bobby & Chip; The Hurricane Kids; Our Boarding House; Out Our Way; Bronc Peeler; Shark Egan; Penguin Pete and His Pal Pudgie. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.