| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | The Barker Meets the Witch Doctor! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan] |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pepsi; Pete |
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| Comic Story | Sorceror Si, the Mountain Witch Doctor (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | A phony magician poses as the hillbilly Sorcerer Si of Yukville for the purposes of ripping off the circus. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Tiny; Lena; Major Midge; Sorceror Si (introduction); Lou Link (villain, introduction); Moss the Magician (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Writer formerly credited as "Klaus Nordling". |
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| Synopsis | Salty is angry that his recently-purchased parrot won't talk. A human-sized talking dog (actually a man in a costume) tells him that not all animals can talk or want to talk. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Salty Waters; Pierre the Pooch |
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| Comic Story | The Greeks Had a Word for It (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Steve Wood; Cemitos (first appearance; villain; death); the Big Boy (first appearance; villain); Punchy (first appearance; villain); Marya (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | Fish Story (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | Compliments of the Jackal (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Ralph Knox (first appearance; death); Jerry Ennis (first appearance); The Jackal [Ted Kimble] (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Introducing Granny Gumshoe (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Granny Gumshoe (first appearance); Lippy Lu (first appearance); Hiram Echo (first appearance; death); Splinter (first appearance; villain; death; a living ventriloquist's dummy) |
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| Comic Story | Roberta's New Boyfriend (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roberta and Roger break up, and she starts dating the stuffed-shirt Pynwood. Lassie tries to convince Roberta that Pynwood thinks he's a cat. Pynwood gives up and Roberta gets back together with Roger. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Lassie; Laddie; Roberta; Roger; Pynwood Van Brumph |
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| Text Story | Tailor's Gold (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Two Mr. Coleses (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Intellectual Amos; Coles and Coles (first appearance; villains; twin brothers); Jasper Spears (first appearance; death) |
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| Comic Story | Death to the Loser (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; Tekla (first appearance; villain; death); Morvey (first appearance; villain) |
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