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National Comics #46 Quality
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | February 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 60 | Frequency: bi-monthly | Editing: George Brenner |
| Cover | Murder is No Joke! |
| Featuring | The Barker |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Cole (signed) | Inks: Jack Cole (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan] |
| Comic Story | Murder Is No Joke (11 pages) |
| Featuring | The Barker |
| Credits | Script: Klaus Nordling | Pencils: Klaus Nordling (signed) | Inks: Klaus Nordling |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Tiny; Lena; Major Midge; Shali (introduction, a snake-charmer); Samson Smith (introduction, strong man); Sonny Day (introduction); Capt. Bill Day (introduction); Dr. Devlin (villain, introduction); Al (villain, introduction); Marty (villain, introduction); Boots (villain, introduction); Maxie (villain, introduction); un-named crooks (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | Story title taken from the cover. Samson Smith took Tiny Tim's place as the circus strongman in this story, but Tiny continues to appear in plain clothes, more or less as a towering rodeo trickster. |
| Comic Story | Sing Me a Torch Song (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Sally O'Neil Policewoman |
| Credits | Pencils: Gene Fawcette | Inks: Gene Fawcette |
| Content | Genre: Detective | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Jerome (first appearance; villain); Frankie Sebar (first appearance; villain) |
| Comic Story | "Wait here by the boat, Waters, while we scout inland a bit!" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Salty Waters |
| Credits | Script: Bernard Dibble | Pencils: Bernard Dibble | Inks: Bernard Dibble |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Comic Story | The Vase of Kwan-Yin (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | G-2 works with a well-known art expert to recover treasures stolen by the Axis forces in the Pacific, including the famed Kwan-Yin Vase from the country of Tambang.....a vase said to bestow leadership on its possessor. |
| Featuring | G-2 |
| Credits | Script: Don Rico? | Pencils: Don Rico | Inks: Don Rico |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: G-2 [Captain Don Leash]; Professor Joaquim (art expert); the Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Last appearance |
| Comic Story | The Lisping Hob-Goblin and the Ghost That Failed (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Intellectual Amos |
| Credits | Script: Andre LeBlanc | Pencils: Andre LeBlanc (signed) | Inks: Andre LeBlanc |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Adventure; Children | Characters: Intellectual Amos (first appearance); Horrible Horace (first appearance; a ghost); Wilbur (first appearance; a hobgoblin); Von Hogg (first appearance; villain) |
| Comic Story | The Vengeance of Monk Mature (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Chic Carter |
| Credits | Script: Vernon Henkel (signed) | Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) | Inks: Vernon Henkel |
| Content | Genre: Detective | Characters: Chic Carter; Monk Mature (first appearance; villain) |
| Text Story | Footprints of Light (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story | Waterdog Breeze (1 page) |
| Featuring | Windy Breeze |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
| Comic Story | Theatre of Thieves (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Quicksilver |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Quackenbush (signed) | Inks: Bill Quackenbush |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver; Fortescue and the Shen-Dee Troupe (first appearance; villains) |
| Comic Story | Yeoman Third (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Destroyer 171 |
| Credits | Pencils: Al Camy? | Inks: Al Camy? |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lt Commander Harvey Blake; Captain Marlin (first appearance; death); The Japanese (villains) |
| Advertisement | "Look! That tree right across the road!" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Volto from Mars |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Robbins | Inks: Frank Robbins |
| Content | Characters: Volto |
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