Wow! comic books issue 20

Cover by Jack Binder. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Jack Binder, Dick MacKay, and Bert Whitman. A Fawcett anthology with an emphasis on superhero adventure. Mr. Scarlet battles germophobic gangster Hypo Kondriak, who wants the secret of The Germ-Proof Vest that can resist biological attacks. Commando Yank goes undercover as war correspondent Chase Yale to find out why and how Allied soldiers are disappearing during training maneuvers. Mary Marvel helps a ghost get published in his favorite "ghostly tales" magazine. Mary Marvel: The Frustrated Phantom; Commando Yank: The Anti-Commandos; Phantom Eagle: Paper Planes; Frontier Fort; Helpful Hugo; Richard Richard, Private Dick Cracks the Nut Case; Mr. Scarlet: The Germ-Proof Vest. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

One in a series of twenty 2.75-in. x -.75-in. mini comics featuring single-panel gag cartoons produced by Bulco, Inc. and distributed by mail order by the Greyko Company, Box 520, G.P.O., NY, NY. These 16-page, black-and-white mini comics originally sold in sets of 20 different comics. None of the comics are dated buy they are copyrighted (without date) by Bulco, Inc. Based on the fact that all 20 could be mailed in 4-in. x 6.25-in. brown envelope for just 3c postage, we estimate the date of publication to be the early to mid-1940's do to references to World War II, Rationing, etc. in some of the cartoons. NOTE: More than 20 of these mini comics may have been produced and the selection varied over the years.