Sparkler comic books issue 74
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Published Dec 1947 by United Features Syndicate.$4.49
- INCOMPLETE. Pages missing (does not affect art and story). Cover detached. 3" spine split from bottom.
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. Hap gives the clock to Jaboo, still unaware that it contains stolen contraband. When Black Bill, Terror of the Seven Seas comes after Captain John's gold, there's real trouble for the Captain and the Kids. Movie star Dawn Renard stops at the hotel at Crabtree Corners before her next movie, and so does a mysterious, handsome man who demands to see her. Ella Cinders is alarmed when her brother Blackie goes to the hospital after a football mishap, but Blackie's more concerned about the ball. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp and the Ripley-like Strange as It Seems. Li'l Abner; Scoopy; Hap Hopper; Nancy; Captain and the Kids; Tarzan; Sparkling Stars of the Air; Dink O'Day; Strange as It Seems; Abbie an Slats; Ella Cinders. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.


