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| Publication | April 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Rider of Rattlesnake Range |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: Jack Armstrong |
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| Synopsis | The New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings argue over whether a goal has been scored before time ran out at the end of a game. |
| Featuring | Split Seconds in Sports |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | The Curse of the Emerald Scarab (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Jim Fairfield; Billy Fairfield |
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| Text Article | Home Run Twins (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Home run leaders Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Johnny Mize of the New York Giants |
| Featuring | Sports Champs |
| Credits | Pencils: Phil Berube (signed) | Inks: Phil Berube (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports | Characters: Ralph Kiner; Johnny Mize |
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| Comic Story | Bobby Tatum (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ten-year-old Bobby Tatum of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, saves his sister after she is struck by a lightning bolt that also sets their house on fire. |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong Magazine All-American Award |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Bobby Tatum; Norma Tatum |
| Notes | "Based on information from the American Red Cross." Bobby Tatum received an engraved medal and a one-year subscription to Jack Armstrong will be sent "free to a shut-in youngster chosen by Bobby." |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Flaming Toys (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Vic Hardy is able to prove that a fire in a plastic-toy factory is arson. |
| Featuring | Vic Hardy's Crime Lab |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Vic Hardy |
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| Featuring | Vic Hardy's Crime Clues |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Vic Hardy |
| Notes | A "solve-the-mystery" story with panels and text underneath. Solution is printed upside-down. |
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| Advertisement | Explorer's Sun Watch! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Wheaties; General Mills |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Wheaties breakfast cereal, featuring premium of a plastic sun dial watch with a compass. 15 cents and one Wheaties box top. General Mills, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | The Riders of Rattlesnake Range (12 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Betty Fairfield; Billy Fairfield; Frank Flynn; Joe Murphy |
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| Text Story | South of Sea Horse (3.33 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Willis Lindquist (credited) | Pencils: Edd Ashe (signed) | Inks: Edd Ashe (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Text story with two large illustrations. Concludes on page 40 of this issue. |
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| Comic Story | Arabian Adventure (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Publisher advertisement | The Best Buys in Joy, Thrills, and Fun (1 page) |
| Featuring | Parents' Magazine Press |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Promo for subscriptions to Calling All Girls; Polly Pigtails; Calling All Kids; True Comics; Jack Armstrong; and Varsity magazine, with mail-in coupon. |
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| Cartoon | Popcorn Panic |
| Synopsis | A sheriff hears shots inside a saloon, but it's only cowboys making popcorn. |
| Credits | Script: Dan Rilge? (signed) | Pencils: Dan Rilge? (signed) | Inks: Dan Rilge? (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Pantomime story. Signature is partially illegible. |
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| Advertisement | Classified Ads |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Small ads for "Western Star Pictures" from Screen Art Pictures, Chicago, Ill., and novelties from Bernard Fine Co., New York, N.Y. (electric bow tie and drinking bird toy). |
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| Featuring | Mail Call |
| Credits | Pencils:? (logo) | Inks:? (logo) | Colors:? (logo) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Letters from Carl Moore; Leon Lederer; Edna Hutt; and Adney Johnson. No responses. |
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| Comic Story | Danger on the Hoof (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Betty Fairfield Adventure |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Sparling | Inks: Jack Sparling |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: Betty Fairfield |
| Notes | Jack Sparling identified as artist of this feature by Jerry Bails. |
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| Comic Story | Pop vs. Pup (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Billy Fairfield's Cartoons of his Comical Misadventures |
| Credits | Pencils: Vic Herman | Inks: Vic Herman |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Billy Fairfield; H. H. Fairfield; Mrs. Fairfield; Blackie (dog) |
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| Featuring | Teen-Age Mystery Classics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Ad for a six-volume set of novels by Howard Pease; Armstrong Sperry; Thomson Burtis; August Hyiell Seaman; Graham M. Dean; and Reed Fulton. Teen-Age Mystery Classics, New York 10, N.Y. Billed at $1 per month for nine months. |
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| Advertisement | Another Big Thrill! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Butterfinger; Curtiss Candy Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Illustrated ad for Butterfinger candy bar. Curtiss Candy Co. |
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