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Popular Comics #43 - 1939 65 Pages Plus 3 Place Holder Pages
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | September 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: Monthly |
| Featuring | Gang Busters; The Masked Pilot; Tex Thorne; Penguin Pete; Jack Randall; Shark Egan |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation; Crime; Funny Animals; Western | Characters: The Masked Pilot; Tex Thorne; Penguin Pete; Jack Randall; Shark Egan |
| Comic Story | "Tex Thorne has been forced to join an outlaw gang" (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Tex Thorne |
| Credits | Script:? [as Zane Grey] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Tex Thorne; Topaz (a horse); Jane Hoskins; Jimmy Hoskins; Jerky; Buck; Clamp Hackett (villain) |
| Cartoon | Deep Stuff; Heroes are Made Not Born |
| Featuring | Worry Wart |
| Credits | Script: J. R. Williams (credited) | Pencils: J. R. Williams (credited) | Inks: J. R. Williams (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
| Cartoon | The Advisers; Born Thirty Years Too Soon |
| Featuring | School Days Out Our Way |
| Credits | Script: J. R. Williams (credited) | Pencils: J. R. Williams (credited) | Inks: J. R. Williams (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
| Comic Story | "Panic has broken loose aboard aboard the pirate schooner, The Corsair" (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Shark Egan |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Period | Characters: Shark Egan; Ace O'Doul; Mary McDermot; Mai Ti; Red Mack (villain); Curly (villain) |
| Activity | Popular Crossword Puzzles by Our Readers (1.33 pages) |
| Featuring | Popular Crossword Puzzles |
| Notes | Crossword puzzles are submitted by Marion Mager and Richard Jumps. The solution to these puzzles are included later in the magazine. |
| Comic Story | "To add to their new-found security in their cliff home" (4 pages) |
| Featuring | The Hurricane Kids |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: The Hurricane Kids [Alan Burnham; Dave Burnham] |
| Comic Story | At the World's Fair; ["Listen, Pete!!"] (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Penguin Pete |
| Credits | Script: Win Smith (credited) | Pencils: Win Smith (signed) | Inks: Win Smith (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Funny Animals; Humor | Characters: Penguin Pete; Pudgie |
| Comic Story | The Mystery of Mr. Wong [Part 1] (1 page) |
| Featuring | Mr. Wong |
| Credits | Script: Jim Gary? | Pencils: Jim Gary | Inks: Jim Gary |
| Content | Genre: Detective | Characters: Mr. Wong; Brandon Edwards |
| Notes | An adaptation of the Monogram Pictures movie - Boris Karloff in "The Mystery of Mr. Wong." |
| Comic Story | "Yessirree, Herk... 'ol Spottys gettin' t'look more like a siberian sniff-hound every day he lives!" (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Noodles blackmails the dogcatcher. |
| Featuring | Herky |
| Credits | Script: Clyde Lewis (credited) | Pencils: Clyde Lewis (credited) | Inks: Clyde Lewis (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Noodles Nelson; Spotty (a dog) |
| Text Story | "When Jim Blake decided that he could no longer agree with his companion" (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tarzan sends Stimbul out of the jungle, but allows Jim Blake to move further into the jungle to take photos. |
| Featuring | Tarzan |
| Credits | Script: Edgar Rice Burroughs (credited) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tarzan; Jim Blake [James Hunter Blake]; Wilbur Stimbul |
| Comic Story | "After the spies shot their way out of the trap prepared by the Masked Pilot" (4 pages) |
| Featuring | The Masked Pilot |
| Credits | Pencils: Bob Jenney (credited) | Inks: Bob Jenney (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: The Masked Pilot; Tom; Dwight Ellis; Mr. Mercer; Mr. Webster; Mr. Jenkins; Alexis (villain, death); Josef (villain, death) |
| Comic Story | "Look, Tom! How'd this grit git into th' motor?" (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Tailspin Tommy |
| Credits | Script: Hal Forrest (credited) | Pencils: Hal Forrest (credited) | Inks: Hal Forrest (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Tailspin Tommy [Tommy Tomkins]; Skeets Milligan; Betty Lou Barnes; Paul Smith; Professor Otto Bumgartner; Miss Stanley; Jeems; Mr. Dunforth; Reverend Meek; Mrs. Wilson; Mr. Plotz; Mr. Trevor; Mr. Holt; Slade |
| Activity | Gang Buster! Win a Prize! (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Popular Comics Gang Buster Contest |
| Comic Story | G-Men vs the Living Masks (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Blinky shoots Pat McCann at the hospital. |
| Featuring | G-Men |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Larry Lane; Miss Walker; Pat McCann (death); Blinky Mathews (villain); Dr. Toro (villain) |
| Comic Story | "Today Rudy has a sad, far-away look" |
| Featuring | Comic Zoo |
| Content | Genre: Funny Animals | Characters: Rudy |
| Notes | Bottom 1/3 of page has answer to the crossword puzzle. |
| Comic Story | "Boy, is Uncle Albert lucky!" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Herky |
| Credits | Script: Clyde Lewis (credited) | Pencils: Clyde Lewis (credited) | Inks: Clyde Lewis (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; Noodles Nelson; Uncle Albert |
| Text Article | "Admiral Horatio Nelson strode the quarter-deck" (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Popular Stamp Club |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Admiral Horatio Nelson |
| Comic Story | Across the Plains (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Randall as Cherokee |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Cherokee; Rusty (a horse); Buckskin; Mary Masters; Mr. Masters; The Kansas Kid (death); Buff Gordon (villain); Rawhide (villain); Lex (villain, death) |
| Notes | Monogram Pictures Present Jack Randall as Cherokee in "Across the Plains." |
| Cartoon | "I wish I'd bought a mule" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Hold Everything |
| Credits | Script: Clyde Lewis (credited) | Pencils: Clyde Lewis (credited) | Inks: Clyde Lewis (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
| Notes | Four single panel cartoons. |
| Comic Story | "Get out of my melons!" |
| Featuring | Comic Zoo |
| Credits | Pencils: George Scarbo | Inks: George Scarbo |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Rudy; Rudy's mother |
| Notes | Gregory Fischer examined the original art at www.coollinesartwork.com, noting the art contained "The Comic Zoo" and a "Sketchbook Sketches" panel. The art was signed in the "Sketchbook Sketches" panel, and also included the date it was published. |
| Cartoon | "I want out!" |
| Featuring | Scrapbook Sketches |
| Credits | Pencils: George Scarbo | Inks: George Scarbo |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
| Notes | Single panel cartoon. Gregory Fischer examined the original art at www.coollinesartwork.com, noting the art contained "The Comic Zoo" and a "Sketchbook Sketches" panel. The art was signed in the "Sketchbook Sketches" panel, and also included the date it was published. |
| Featuring | Scrapbook Sketches |
| Credits | Pencils: George Scarbo | Inks: George Scarbo |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
| Notes | Single panel cartoon. |
| Comic Story | "'Big Boy' Bob Brody, a slippery bank robber" (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Gang Busters |
| Credits | Pencils: Al McWilliams [as A. McWilliams] (signed) | Inks: Al McWilliams [as A. McWilliams] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Big Boy Bob Brody (villain, death); Rice (villain); Hill (villain); Daly (villain) |
| Text Story | "Ben-Hur, son of Arrius, has been exercising the horses" (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Ben Hur |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Period | Characters: Ben Hur [also as Ben-Hur]; Iras; Malluch; Sheik Ilderim; Messala; Simonides; Esther; Balthasar |
| Cartoon | The Schemers; The Quick Turnover |
| Featuring | School Days Out Our Way |
| Credits | Script: J. R. Williams (credited) | Pencils: J. R. Williams (credited) | Inks: J. R. Williams (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
| Notes | Two single panel gags. |
| Cartoon | Heroes are Made Not Born; A Shady Retreat |
| Featuring | Worry Wart |
| Credits | Script: J. R. Williams (credited) | Pencils: J. R. Williams (credited) | Inks: J. R. Williams (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Gags |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons. |
| Comic Story | "Will the rickity old thing hold us?" (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Bronc Peeler |
| Credits | Script: Fred Harman (credited) | Pencils: Fred Harman (signed) | Inks: Fred Harman (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Babs Dalton; Pete; Abe Dalton (a skeleton); Spade Carson (villain); Bat Wilson (villain) |
| Comic Story | "I give up!" (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Herky gets Granville to help him modify his letter to Santa Claus. |
| Featuring | Herky |
| Credits | Script: Clyde Lewis (credited) | Pencils: Clyde Lewis (credited) | Inks: Clyde Lewis (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Herky; J. Granville Gurk |
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