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| Publication | March 1949 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bimonthly |
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| Cover | Secret Cargo |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Vic Hardy (inset) |
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| Text Article | Jack Armstrong Becomes a Triple Threat Man (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photo) | Inks:?;? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Jack Armstrong (photo of Charles Flynn) |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Illustration, photo of Charles Flynn as Jack Armstrong in front of ABC microphone, and promotion article publicizing the relatively new Jack Armstrong comic strip. |
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| Comic Story | Shot in the Dark (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A four-alarm fire in the city peaks Vic's interest when he finds a can of metallic sodium, any arsonist's dream, so he visits a newspaper editor and voices his suspicions that Boss Jeffers has hired an arsonist to set fire to his own building to collect the insurance. When the editor refuses to print a story on this, Jack and Vic plant a false story about a radium shipment in the paper to draw the crooks out into the open. |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Vic Hardy (Chief of the Scientific Bureau of Investigation); Billy (crime lab tech); Boss Jeffers [Ed Nixon] (villain, newspaper editor); Jeffer's thugs (villains) |
| Notes | Crossover with Vic Hardy. |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Photo Finish (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Vic Hardy's Crime Lab |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Vic Hardy |
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| Advertisement | Charlie Diehl (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Profile of professional high diver Charlie Diehl. |
| Featuring | Wheaties; General Mills |
| Content | Characters: Charlie Diehl |
| Notes | Ad for Wheaties "Breakfast of Champions" breakfast cereal. General Mills, Inc. |
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| Advertisement | Get This Sports Pedometer (1 page) |
| Featuring | Betty Crocker; General Mills |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Betty Crocker "soup ingredients" packages with a premium of a sports pedometer for 25 cents and one boxtop from Betty Crocker Soup. General Mills, Inc. |
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| Advertisement | Daydream Mike and His Wonderful Bike (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Mike uses his bicycle to outrun Indians on the Pony Express. |
| Featuring | Columbia Bicycles |
| Content | Characters: Daydream Mike |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for Columbia bicycles. Westfield Manufacturing Co., Westfield, Mass. |
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| Text Story | 20 Miles from Key West (3.333 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Michael Rosen (credited) | Pencils: Edd Ashe (signed) | Inks: Edd Ashe (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Text story with one large illustration. Continued on Page 49 of the issue. |
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| Comic Story | Man Overboard (5 pages) |
| Featuring | Betty Fairfield Adventure |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Sparling? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Betty Fairfield |
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| Comic Story | Secret Cargo (12 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong Adventure |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Jim Fairfield |
| Notes | Splash page almost two pages, with no gutter. |
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| Comic Story | Wild Boar! (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | Kid Caddy (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy has to babysit a insufferable brat and ends up falling off a high building into a fireman's net. |
| Featuring | Billy Fairfield's Cartoons of His Own Misadventures |
| Credits | Pencils: Vic Herman | Inks: Vic Herman |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Billy Fairfield; Terrible Terrence O'Toole |
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| Advertisement | Ring for "Wolves" |
| Featuring | Western Craftsmen |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for ring with a wolf's head. $2.08 postpaid to Western Craftsman, Omaha, Nebr. |
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| Advertisement | Giant 3 Foot Telescope |
| Featuring | Criterion Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for three-foot telescope for $2.50 from Criterion Co., Hartford, Conn. |
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| Advertisement | Gene Autry Cowboy Boots |
| Featuring | Austin Shoe Stores |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Gene Autry (cameo) |
| Notes | Ad for leather cowboy boots from Austin Shoe Stores, Dallas, Texas, for $8.95 to $22.50, with a premium of an "autographed" color portrait of Gene Autry. |
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| Advertisement | You Can Get These Hand Colored Coin Holder Zipper Billfolds (1 page) |
| Featuring | Leathercraft Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for leather zipper billfold for $1.98 from The Leathercraft Co., Clifton, N. J. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Yippee, Lots of Happy Reading with These Thrilling Magazines. (1 page) |
| Featuring | Parents' Magazine Press |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Promo for subscriptions to Polly Pigtails; Calling All Kids; Tex Granger; True Comics; Calling All Girls; and Varsity magazine. |
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| Advertisement | Girls! It's the Wonderful New Beauty Trix Wallet (1 page) |
| Featuring | Scope Sales Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for leather wallet for $1.98 from Scope Sales Co., New York 7, N.Y. |
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