Comicmarks
Grand Slam Comics v5 52
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | April 1946 | Price: 0.10 CAD | Pages: 60 | Editing: Jack Calder? |
| Notes | Betty Mercer lettering credits in this issue based on "The War Years: Anglo-American Publishing Ltd" by Robert MacMillan in Canuck Comics (1986). Indicia states "Grand Slam", cover has "Grand Slam Comics". |
| Cover | The Stolen Seal |
| Featuring | Commander Steel |
| Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
| Content | Genre: Super-hero | Characters: Commander Steel |
| Comic Story | Traces the Stolen Seal! (13.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | A spy steals an official government seal and Commander Steel sets off to find him. |
| Featuring | Commander Steel |
| Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
| Content | Genre: Super-hero | Characters: Commander Steel; Carl Gossy |
| Publisher advertisement | For Good Reading... |
| Synopsis | Small promo for Three Aces Comics, with a small faked cover featuring The Purple Rider. |
| Comic Story | The Ledge of Death (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | Doctor Desine is kidnapped and thrown off a cliff to prevent him from testifying in a case. He survives, finds two dead bodies and gets himself off the cliff. Investigating the deaths, he finds they might just be related to the case he was going to testify about. He and Beverly dress up as the victims to try to catch the killers. |
| Featuring | Doctor Destine |
| Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Doctor Destine; Beverley |
| Text Story | The Killers Give A Party (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Jim Taylor (credited) | Letters: Typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Vilma Courtney; Jack Osgood |
| Comic Story | "The room clerk told me to take over for him while he's out to lunch..." (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sooper Dooper acts as the front clerk at a hotel. |
| Featuring | Sooper Dooper |
| Credits | Script: Les Gilpin? | Pencils: Jay McKellar? | Inks: Jay McKellar? | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sooper Dooper |
| Notes | Gilpin and McKellar credits are guesses based on some signed Sooper Dooper comics. |
| Comic Story | The Spoilers of the South Seas (14 pages) |
| Synopsis | Red Rover and Knuckles go to the "city" to sell some pearls to pay for a new school, but instead end up tracking down opium smugglers. |
| Featuring | Red Rover |
| Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Red Rover; Knuckles |
| Notes | Last 1/3 of a page is promo for next issue "Red Rover and Big Dan The Dope Czar of the South Seas". |
| Comic Story | Commander Steel of the International Police Service and the Klan Killers (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A Nazi scientist has his men dress as vampire bats in Klu Klux Klan robes to scare the occupying soldiers in a small German city. Commander Steel gets himself captured by them and steals one of their winged-backpacks to defeat them. |
| Featuring | Commander Steel |
| Credits | Letters: Betty Mercer? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Commander Steel; Herr Von Falkonhorst |
| Synopsis | Four ad pages. Inside front cover has ad for various gizmos, with a Michigan address. First page has ad for various Captain Marvel toys with a Conn. address (with a note that "No Canadian orders accepted"). Inside back cover is ad for leather belt and wallet with a Chicago address and back cover is an ad for selling spot remover to win prizes with an Iowa address. |
| Notes | No Canadian ads in a Canadian published comic. |
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