| Additional Information |
| |
| Publication | February 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly except December and June |
| |
| Cover | The King of Beasts |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Swing Sisson (inset); Blimpy [Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain] (inset); Rusty Ryan (inset); Lala Palooza (inset) |
| |
| Comic Story | The King of Beasts (13 pages) |
| Synopsis | A giant gorilla in the zoo has killed a guard. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; King (villain, introduction, death); King's gang (villains, introduction) |
| Notes | Tilting figures with long upper body and awkward way of standing and walking, some wild eyes, and also broad shoulders and narrow head on stretched neck are all pointing to Zolnerowich. He is credited on both pencils and ink on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, but inking vary, so uncertain. |
| |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| |
| Comic Story | Allura and the Rising Suns (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; Allura (villain, introduction); the Rising Suns (villains, introduction for all) |
| |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | strip reprints |
| |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| |
| Comic Story | The Musician of Crime (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; The Musician [Larry Lake] (first appearance; villain; death) |
| |
| Comic Story | In Toy Land (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky; Lucy (first appearance; a paper doll); Hortense (first appearance; a male toy soldier) |
| |
| Text Story | Valley of Dead Men (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Perry Scott |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
| |
| Comic Story | The Balloon Flight (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; Prof. Wiphill (first appearance) |
| |
| Comic Story | Mission to Port Satsuma (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Sultan of Kowkow (first appearance); The Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Heads in 3/4 backview with streched neck and the jawbone going back behind the ear, even in side view, is peculiar. This can be found in his credited "Mike Gibbs Guerilla" story in Adventure Comics #88. Most probably him on this story. |
| |
| Comic Story | Twerlin the Sorcerer (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Blimpy goes up against an evil sorcerer. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy [aka Rufus Rastas Sassafrass O'Brain]; Miss Vanderworth (introduction); Twerlin the Sorcerer (villain); The Fraternity of Crime (villains, introduction for all) |
| Notes | DiPreta script credit removed by Craig Delich. DiPreta did very little writing in his career that is documented and it is very unlikely that he wrote this feature. |
| |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
