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National Comics #43 - 1944 - In
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | August 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 60 | Editing: George Brenner |
| Featuring | Barker |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan] |
| Comic Story | The Spider Man (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Colonel Lane meets his rival, Cappy Kane, who has learned about a four-armed freak that is an accomplished pickpocket, so Kane decides to use this freak to undermoine Lane's circus by robbing patrons and implicating Mammoth Circus. |
| Featuring | The Barker |
| Credits | Script: Joe Millard (signed) | Pencils: Jack Cole (signed) | Inks: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Major Midge; Lena; Tiny; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Madam Shali (snake charmer); Spudo the Spider Man [Clarence Twiddle] (villain but reforms, introduction, has four arms); Cappy Kane (villain); Press Hardt (villain) |
| Notes | Spudo was the only supporting character to be awarded his own spin-off feature, the first appearing in The Barker #1. |
| Featuring | Salty Waters |
| Credits | Script: Bernard Dibble | Pencils: Bernard Dibble | Inks: Bernard Dibble |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Comic Story | Guns and Glamour (7 pages) |
| Featuring | G-2 |
| Credits | Pencils: John Spranger | Inks: John Spranger |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: G-2 [Don Leash]; Jolene Joy (first appearance); the Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Previously credited to Don Rico but this is not the artist that did the previous issues. |
| Comic Story | Death By the Clock (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Sally O'Neil Policewoman |
| Credits | Script: Al Bryant? | Pencils: Al Bryant (signed) | Inks: Al Bryant |
| Content | Genre: Detective | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Jasper Jules (first appearance; death); Matty Dolan (first appearance; villain); Dusty Dolan (first appearance; villain) |
| Comic Story | The Allotment Check Thieves (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Uncle Sam |
| Credits | Pencils: Mort Leav | Inks: Mort Leav |
| Content | Genre: War; Occult | Characters: Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; Heffy and his gang (first appearance; villains) |
| Notes | formerly credited to Ed Dobrotka but does not resemble his Superman work. |
| Comic Story | Here Lies Windy Breeze...And How He Lies and Lies and Lies! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Windy Breeze |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] | Inks: Jack Cole |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
| Comic Story | Dagger Marlin Hangs Twice (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Quicksilver |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Quackenbush? | Inks: Bill Quackenbush? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver; Dagger Marlin (first appearance; villain; death) |
| Text Story | The Rocket Train (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story | The Case of the Drowned Corpse (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Chic Carter |
| Credits | Script: Vernon Henkel (signed) | Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) | Inks: Vernon Henkel |
| Content | Genre: Detective | Characters: Chic Carter; Shane (first appearance; villain); Mr. Kates (first appearance; death) |
| Comic Story | Mutiny Aboard the U.S.S. "Pawnee" (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Destroyer 171 |
| Credits | Pencils: Al Camy? | Inks: Al Camy? |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lt. Commander Harvey Blake; Japanese (villains) |
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