| Additional Information |
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| Publication | Fall 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Quarterly |
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| Featuring | Oceanic Flying Subway |
| Credits | Pencils: H. C. Kiefer (signed) | Inks: H. C. Kiefer (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Synopsis | Possible future inventions. |
| Featuring | What in the Future World |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Comic Story | The Secret Message! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mel Mason, assistant to chief engineer James Cook, of Borden Electronics, is feverishly working to iron out the details of the new Borden Device to transmit pictures in full color by wire. This work
requires continual telephone contact with their
laboratory at Belmar, fifty miles away. But
in the main plant at Lamar, Mel is in for
trouble that has little to do with electronics" |
| Featuring | Mel Mason |
| Credits | Pencils: Ruth Thompson (signed) | Inks: Ruth Thompson? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | How Pulse-Time Modulation Works (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Continues the Mel Mason story with a scientific explaination. |
| Featuring | Mel Mason |
| Credits | Pencils: Ruth Thompson | Inks: Ruth Thompson? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | What in the Future World |
| Credits | Pencils: Dick Briefer? (signed R. Johnson) | Inks: Dick Briefer? (signed R. Johnson) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
| Notes | Rudolf Johnson was another R. Johnson, but based on the time period and eyebrows, my guess is Dick Briefer who used the pen name as per www.bailsprojects.com |
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| Synopsis | Actual items that have been patented. |
| Featuring | It's Patented! |
| Credits | Script: Larz Bourne? | Pencils: Larz Bourne (signed) | Inks: Larz Bourne (signed) | Letters: Larz Bourne? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | The three pages are scattered through the book. |
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| Comic Story | The Sunken Treasure (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | "Jack Boyd, returned from rescuing Mr. Jackson from the South Sea island where he was marooned for 10 years, has been working on his own modification of sonar to make the measureof ocean depths a faster, easier task... He has just left his lab when…" |
| Featuring | Jack Boyd |
| Credits | Pencils: Seymour Pearlstein (signed) | Inks: Seymour Pearlstein (signed) | Letters: Seymour Pearlstein |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | How Sonar Works (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Text Article | It's A Secret!! (2 pages) |
| Featuring | code breaking |
| Credits | Pencils: Alex Toth (illo) | Inks: Alex Toth (illo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | The Future of PTM Multi-Message Radio (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: Ruth Thompson (signed) | Inks: Ruth Thompson | Letters: Ruth Thompson? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | Trapped Train Robbers (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | S. Parks Rogers, Jr, is known as Sparks. His
two great interests are radio and railroading. |
| Featuring | Spark Rogers |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | How...Inductive...Radio Works (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Continues from the Spark Rogers story. |
| Featuring | Spark Rogers |
| Credits | Pencils: Ruth Thompson | Inks: Ruth Thompson | Letters: Ruth Thompson? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | The Future of Sonar |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | What in the Future World |
| Credits | Pencils: Larz Bourne? (unsigned) | Inks: Larz Bourne? (unsigned) | Letters: Larz Bourne? |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
| Notes | Art looks similar to It's Patented feature. |
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| Featuring | It's Patented! |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Art looks imatative of the other It's Patented sequences but not the same. My uneducated guess is that this unsigned sequence (the others were all signed) is by a different artist. This sequence is the only one to include "United States Patents Have Been Granted On The Following Devices..." in bold print. |
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