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| Publication | April 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | The Winning Hand! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Lena; Major Midge; Samson Smith |
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| Featuring | Volto from Mars; Grape Nuts Cereal |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Volto |
| Notes | Advertisement for Grape Nuts Cereal done in comic form featuring Volto from Mars.
Inside front cover. Includes a blurb below the Volto advertisement for Hop Harrigan radio show on the Blue Network Monday through Friday. Indicia at the bottom of the page. |
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| Comic Story | Samson Smith vs. Mighty Moose (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cappy Kane is back as his strongman, the Mighty Moose, is pitted against Mammoth Circus's own Samson Smith. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Lena; Major Midge; Tiny Tim; Samson Smith; Cappy Kane (villain); Mighty Moose (villain, introduction); Duke (villain, introduction); Runt (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling". |
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| Synopsis | U.S. Navy sailor Salty thinks he's been abandoned on a Pacific island. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Salty Waters |
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| Synopsis | Lassie and her friend Laddie want to attend the circus, but Lassie's older sister Roberta has a date with Roger and can't take them. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Lassie (first appearance); Laddie (first appearance); Roberta (first appearance); Roger (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | Sally Haunts a Ghost (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Mrs. Vanderdough (first appearance); Nick the Chiseler (first appearance; villain); three other crooks (first appearance; villains; one dies) |
| Notes | Policewoman portion of the feature name does not appear as part of the feature name in this story. |
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| Comic Story | Swami Joe and the Counterfeiters (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Intellectual Amos; Swami Joe (first appearance; villain); Silas P. Pinkbottom (first appearance; villain); other two Varx Brothers (first appearance; villaisn) |
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| Comic Story | Helium Tires (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | The Vengeance of Boss Bumble (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; Boss Bumble (first appearance; villain); Avie (first appearance; villain; death); Romby (first appearance; villain; death); Dirk (first appearance; villain; death) |
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| Text Story | Motorized Dragonflies (1.67 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Sworn to and subscribed to Louis J. Rubiansky on September 28, 1944. |
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| Comic Story | Big Joe Ryan and the Silver Bracelet (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chic writes a story on Big Joe Ryan and immediately is confronted by a lady wanting him to go to a certain jewelry store and pick up a silver bracelet, and upon delivery to her, he is to get a cool $500! But Ryan meets up with Chic and somehow the bracelet disappears before Carter can deliver it... and Carter is arrested for robbery. But Chic discovers that he has been played for a sucker with a phony, frozen mercury bracelet, and thus seeks out Ryan. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Chic Carter; Chic's newspaper city editor; Big Joe Ryan (villain, introduction); Louella (villain, introduction); Blackie (villain, Ryan's chauffeur, introduction) |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Comic Story | Lifeboat No. 1 (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Military; War | Characters: Commander Blake; First Officer Conroy; The Japanese (villains) |
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| Advertisement | Be a Radio Technician (1 page) |
| Featuring | National Radio Institute |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: J. E. Smith (photograph); John Jerry (photograph); A. J. Forehner (photograph) |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Advertisement for the training equipment and book from the National Radio Institute (of Washington, D. C.). |
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| Featuring | MoToR Book |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Back cover.
An advertisement for the auto repair manual from MoToR (of New York, New York). |
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