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| Date | | Number: 51 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | National Comics 51 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 60 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| 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 | The Missing Link / 1 page |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor |
| Characters | The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Lena; Major Midge; Tiny |
| Pencils | Jack Cole (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole (signed) |
| First Line | The Barker finds the Missing Link in a chain of strange events! |
| Comic Story | The Missing Link / The Barker (11 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor |
| Characters | The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Madame Futura (first appearance, a fortune teller); Shali (first appearance, a snake charmer); The Missing Link (first appearance, villain) |
| Script | Klaus Nordling |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling |
| First Line | Ah-- I see it approaching in the near future... |
| Story | Salty Waters (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Salty tells his girlfriend Gladys about his exploits in the Pacific. |
| Genre | Humor; Military |
| Characters | Salty Waters; Gladys |
| Script | Bernard Dibble |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| First Line | And I'll meetcha on the beach in five minutes, Gladys! |
| Comic Story | Smash It Anyway! / Quicksilver (7 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Quicksilver [Max]; Winslow Rigger (first appearance, villain); James Eagle (first appearance) |
| Pencils | Bill Quackenbush |
| Inks | Bill Quackenbush |
| First Line | You may not be able to see your peril--- |
| Story | Windy Breeze (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Windy comes up with a scheme to get money to go the ball game. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Windy Breeze; Sam |
| Script | Jack Cole |
| Pencils | Jack Cole |
| Inks | Jack Cole |
| First Line | Heck! The Tigers are playing today and I'm broke! |
| Story | Lassie (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lassie's new neighbor is an inventor. She "helps" him out. |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Characters | Lassie; Roberta; Roger; Laddie |
| Script | Bernard Dibble |
| Pencils | Bernard Dibble |
| Inks | Bernard Dibble |
| First Line | Ooh, look, Roberta! |
| Notes | In previous stories, Roberta is Lassie's sister, but in this story Roger says she is Lassie's "Aunt Roberta." Also, Roger and Roberta appear to be married in this story, whereas they were just dating in previous issues. |
| Comic Story | Soup Simpson's Last Blast / Sally O'Neil Policewoman (8 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Sally O'Neil; Soup Simpson (first appearance, villain, death); Boris Meloff (first appearance, villain); Lefty (first appearance, villain) |
| Pencils | Bill Ward |
| Inks | Bill Ward ? |
| First Line | The luckiest day in policewoman Sally O'Neil's life was the day... |
| Notes | Pencils and inks previously credited to Gene Fawcette. |
| Comic Story | Kidnapping at Sea / Intellectual Amos (6 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor; Children |
| Characters | Intellectual Amos; The Chief and his gang (first appearance, villains); Miss Venbilt (first appearance) |
| Script | André LeBlanc |
| Pencils | André LeBlanc |
| Inks | André LeBlanc |
| First Line | Just a little boy... nothing unusual about him except... |
| Text Story | Strange Escape (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jules, a prison inmate, attempts an escape and then revenge on those who put him in prison. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Crime |
| Characters | Jules; Banning; Judge Bekins; Crandell; Holmes |
| First Line | For more days than he could remember... |
| Notes | A promo ad for National Comics appears in the lower corner of the second page. |
| Comic Story | Trap for the Whistler / Whistler (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Editor Shane plans a trap for the Whistler and assigns Drake to cover the story. |
| Genre | Detective-mystery; Superhero |
| Characters | The Whistler [Mallory Drake]; Mac Shane; Ambers (first appearance, villain) |
| Script | Vern Henkel |
| Pencils | Vern Henkel |
| Inks | Vern Henkel |
| First Line | When police reporter Mallory Drake became the dread Whistler... |
| Comic Story | The Three Entertainers / Destroyer 171 (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The destroyer Pawnee has been ordered to transport a troupe of entertainers to Paasuvi. |
| Genre | War |
| Characters | Commander Blake; First Officer Conroy; Jack Hallam (first appearance); Jim Maulsby (first appearance); Bette D'Arcy (first appearance); The Japanese (villains) |
| Pencils | Al Camy ? |
| Inks | Al Camy ? |
| First Line | It started out to be less than a routine assignment for the... |
| Notes | The three named entertainers are based on Jack Carson, Bing Crosby and Bette Davis. |
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