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| Date | | Number: 52 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | National Comics 52 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 60 |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 4. |
| Cover | Carnival of Laughs! / 1 page |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor |
| Characters | The Barker [Carnie Callahan] |
| Pencils | Al Bryant |
| Inks | Al Bryant |
| Comic Story | The Jinx / The Barker (11 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor |
| Characters | The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; The Jinx (first appearance, villain) |
| Script | Gwen Hansen |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling |
| Notes | Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling". |
| Comic Story | The Case of Old Man Hogin / Sally O'Neil Policewoman (8 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Sally O'Neil; Old Man Hogin (first appearance, villain); Mr. Davis (first appearance); Miss Avery (first appearance); Mrs. Douglas (first appearance) |
| Pencils | Gene Fawcette |
| Inks | Gene Fawcette |
| Story | Salty Waters (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Salty brings back a "ja-do-do" bird egg, only to have the Professor say the bird's been extinct for 108 years. Nobody told the egg, and it hatches. |
| Genre | Humor; Military |
| Characters | Salty Waters; Professor |
| Script | Bernard Dibble |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| First Line | Just wait'll the professor sees what I brought him back from the Central Pacific! |
| Notes | This is the same premise as the "Big Top" story in Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #99 (June 1946), except in that story it was a "prehistoric flying lizard's egg." |
| Comic Story | The Winner! / Quicksilver (7 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Quicksilver [Max]; Socker Sampson (first appearance); Heavy (first appearance, villain); Galdo (first appearance, villain); their gang (first appearance, villain) |
| Pencils | Bill Quackenbush |
| Inks | Bill Quackenbush |
| Comic Story | Zinnia and Stinky / Windy Breeze (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Windy Breeze |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| Comic Story | Admiral Bilge's Plan / Intellectual Amos (6 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor; Children |
| Characters | Intellectual Amos; Admiral Bilge (first appearance, villain); Phineas Demi-John (first appearance, villain) |
| Script | André LeBlanc |
| Pencils | André LeBlanc |
| Inks | André LeBlanc |
| Story | Lassie (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lassie buys a monkey for a pet. Havoc results. |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Characters | Lassie; Laddie; Roger; Roberta; Agatha Fitzbully; Mr. Fitzbully |
| Script | Bernard Dibble |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| First Line | I wish we had another dog at our house! |
| Notes | Roberta is back to being Lassie's sister in this issue. |
| Text Story | The Agrilistas (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Comic Story | The Wrong Whistler / Whistler (6 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery; Superhero |
| Characters | The Whistler [Mallory Drake]; A. Biddle (first appearance); The Boss (first appearance, villain); Max (first appearance, villain); another hood (first appearance, villain) |
| Script | Vern Henkel |
| Pencils | Vern Henkel |
| Inks | Vern Henkel |
| Comic Story | Somewhere Off the Coast of Japan / Destroyer 171 (7 pages) |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | The Japanese (villains) |
| Pencils | Al Camy ? |
| Inks | Al Camy ? |
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