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| great LBCole Cover - have to wonder if Matt Groening saw this and used it as inspiration in designing Futureama. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Subscription for Contact, aviation's national newspaper, and the parent publication to Contact Comics. |
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| Comic Story | Aerial Adventure (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Johnny is hired by a man to photograph his property from the air. |
| Featuring | Johnny Mace and Company |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Johnny Mace (introduction); Flippit; Clix; Mr. Sanders; Barrum |
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| Comic Story | Moon Express (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | It's explained how a moon rocket could go to the Moon before 1950. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Cyrano De Bergerac; Jules Verne; Dr. Goddard; Willy Ley |
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| Comic Story | Rendezvous With Fire (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Diamond is called in to deal with some trouble at an oil refinery in the middle east. |
| Featuring | Ace Diamond |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Ace Diamond (introduction); Johnson; Butler; Crombie; Meeker |
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| Comic Story | Instrument Approach (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | How planes can land on instruments. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
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| Text Story | Ceiling Zero (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A snowstorm has grounded planes on the East Coast, but the FBI and a special person have to fly back to Washington DC. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Slip Corbett; Charlie Holt |
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| Comic Story | The Take-Off (4.66 pages) |
| Featuring | Contact's Flight Class |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
| Notes | A few lessons in what to do on take-off, climbing, turns, stalls, spins, gliding, landing, and building a practice set of controls at home. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Write Read |
| Notes | Promo for Contact Comics. |
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| Comic Story | The Theory of Flight (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
| Notes | How a plane flies. |
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| Comic Story | Jet Carrier Pigeon (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The kids want to test their new plane model design in the wind tunnel, and a crook steals Mr. Wasson's money. |
| Featuring | Air Kids |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Air Kids (introduction); Wasson; Gregory |
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| Comic Story | SZGY3 (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Sky Rangers are hired to figure out the meaning to a man's dying word of "SZGY3". |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Sky Rangers [Skillen; Danny Mac Coy] (introduction); Mr. Burden |
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| Advertisement | Lightning Ju-Jitsu (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
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| Publisher advertisement | Your Post-War Place in Aviation (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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