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| Publication | Winter 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
| Notes | Art identification based on Stoner’s signed covers for The Funnies #56 (June, 1941) and Rocket Kelly #5 (October, 1946). Similarities include protagonists with big dimples and wide smiles showing teeth, and women with long hair that rolls up at the bottom. The rocket drawn on Rocket Kelly #5 is also consistent with how the rocket is drawn on this issue’s cover. |
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| Cover | Rocket Kelly in Horses of Doom |
| Featuring | Rocket Kelly |
| Credits | Pencils: E. C. Stoner | Inks: E. C. Stoner |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Rocket Kelly; Sue; Punchy |
| Notes | Art identification based on Stoner’s signed covers for The Funnies #56 (June, 1941) and Rocket Kelly #5 (October, 1946). Similarities include protagonists with big dimples and wide smiles showing teeth, and women with long hair that rolls up at the bottom. The rocket drawn on Rocket Kelly #5 is also consistent with how the rocket is drawn on this issue’s cover. |
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| Advertisement | Do You Want Longer Hair? (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for Juelene hair product from the Juel Company. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Also includes indicia. |
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| Comic Story | Horses of Doom (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Switsonia Insitute is offering a prize for a "unique trophy of historical interest." Rocket agrees to fly Professor Lee and Dr. Drake to Africa and Asia as they search for a trophy. Rocket discovers each man received a message about "the original Trojan Horse of antiquity!" Two Trojan Horses are found and returned to the institute. Evil Professor Venom has planted bombs in them to destroy his scientific rivals, but Rocket dumps the horses in the ocean and Venom has a heart attack. |
| Featuring | Rocket Kelly |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ted Small] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Professor Venom (Introduction, Death); Rocket Kelly; Punchy; Sue; Professor Lee; Dr. Lake |
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| Comic Story | The Mars Mystery (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rocket's father sends Rocket, Sue and Punchy to Mars to investigate strange explosions. They discover the Robot King is making war on the inhabitants of Mars. Since it's "a robot law that the ruler must always accept a challenge to his kingship," Rocket challenges and defeats the Robot King, freeing the Martians. But the Robot King escapes in his spaceship with Sue and Punchy as hostages. Rocket rescues his friends and exposes Professor Mogul as the Robot King, who was using "Mars as an experimental laboratory before attempting to subjugate the Earth!" |
| Featuring | Rocket Kelly |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ted Small] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Professor Mogul (Introduction, villain); Rocket Kelly; Professor Kelly (Rocket's father); Sue; Punchy; Ono |
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| Comic Story | The Fizz That Fizzled (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pussy Katnip, "famous entrepreneur," asks her dog friend George to ride her horse Buckaroo in a charity race. However, Swayback, the horse owned by criminal bulldog Boss, wins the race. Pussy discovers this was because Boss stole her Katnip Fizz and fed it to his horse. Boss is arrested and Pussy's horse is declared the winner. |
| Featuring | Pussy Katnip |
| Credits | Script: Len Short (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Pussy Katnip; George; Boss; Mugsy |
| Notes | Buckaroo is also spelled "Buckeroo" in one panel. |
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| Synopsis | A "Ripley's Believe it or Not"-type page. |
| Featuring | Imagine That |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Text Story | The Snowball (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Larry Howe | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Last name of credit is difficult to read. |
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| Comic Story | The Eerie Plot (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Alan becomes the Puppeteer by playing "the mighty notes" on an organ. He and his talking bird sidekick Raven spring into action when Professor Eerie escapes from prison to get revenge on the people who sent him to jail: violinist Great Santos, writer Amos Gates and his daughter Ann. Eerie hypnotises them all, plus the Puppeteer and hides them in a traveling wax museum. Raven helps save the Puppeteer and the criminal mastermind is captured. |
| Featuring | Puppeteer |
| Credits | Pencils: Alec Hope (credited) | Inks: E. C. Stoner? | Colors: E.C. Stoner? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Professor Eerie (Introduction, villain); Puppeteer [Alan Hale]; Great Santos; Amos Gates; Ann Gates; The Toad; Pop Smith |
| Notes | Raven appears to be a bald eagle despite his name (and he's also called a "crow" by the police). |
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| Comic Story | Hand of Fate (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Criminal Verko hijacks Rocket's ship and steals some experimental bombs created by Rocket's father. Rocket rescues his father, Sue and Punchy. Verko and his sidekick Slime bail out but are killed by the exploding bombs. |
| Featuring | Rocket Kelly |
| Credits | Script:? [as Ted Small] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Verko (Introduction, villain); Rocket Kelly; Professor Kelly; Sue; Punchy; Slime |
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| Synopsis | Percy rents a house and tries to play cards with ghosts who are afraid of him. |
| Featuring | Percy |
| Credits | Script: Tom Frost (credited) | Pencils: Tom Frost (credited) | Inks: Tom Frost (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Percy |
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| Advertisement | New Enlargement (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ads for photographic enlargements and prizes for selling spot remover. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Advertisement | Genuine Photo Master Candid Camera (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for novelties from National Novelties. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | Do You Know What Magazine I Read? (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ad for Mechanix Illustrated magazine subscriptions. |
| Featuring | Captain Marvel; Mechanix Illustrated |
| Content | Characters: Captain Marvel; Hoppy; Captain Marvel Jr. |
| Notes | On back cover of comic. |
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