| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Art previously attributed to Al Bryant. |
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| Cover | The Curse of Ali Ben Riff Raff! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land; Tiny; Major Midge; Lena |
| Notes | Art previously attributed to Al Bryant. |
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| Comic Story | The Curse of Ali Ben Riff Raff! (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Barker must deal with men fighting over a belly dancer, whose husband has planted her in the circus for nefarious reasons. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Lena; Tiny; Major Midge; Lopez (introduction, a high wire walker); Ali Ben Riff Raff (villain, introduction); Salamo (villain, introduction, belly dancer) |
| Notes | Story title taken from the cover. |
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| Synopsis | Salty tells his nieces and nephews he was present at the atomic bomb tests on Bikini Atoll, but wasn't the least bit afraid. However, one of the children pops a bubble-gum bubble and this causes the startled Salty to leap into the air. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Salty Waters |
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| Comic Story | The Cupid Bandit (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Granny Gumshoe; The Cupid Bandit [Don Thimble] (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | Botchagaloop Returns (6 pages) |
| Content | Characters: Anthrop; Botchagaloop |
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| Comic Story | Marriage Fantasy (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lassie fantasizes about her future marriage to Laddie, and doesn't like the prospect. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Lassie; Roberta; Laddie |
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| Comic Story | The Ship That Ate Men (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Steve Wood; Charon (first appearance; villain) |
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| Text Story | The Barker and the Bandits (2 pages) |
| Featuring | The Barker |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan] |
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| Comic Story | The Wasp (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | When two greedy business owners cut The Wasp out of his rightful share of his invention, mechanical wings, he decides to kill them. This jilted inventor used a stinging syringe mounted on his wings to accomplish this task, but, in the end, he accidently pricks himself with his own stinger and dies. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; Mr. Shaw; Mr. Lane; The Wasp (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Artist revision from Dan Zolnerowich to Quackenbush, per Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash, in the Quality Companion (2011), added by Craig Delich 2013-12-23. |
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| Comic Story | The Leopard Man (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Haines (first appearance; villain; death); Sanders (first appearance; villain; death) |
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