| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | Birdman |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan] |
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| Comic Story | The Birdman (11 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; The Birdman [Denoso] (first appearance; villain; death) |
| Notes | Writer credit formerly Klaus Nordling. |
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| Comic Story | What's Opera? (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy Breeze |
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| Comic Story | The Diamond Bracelet Cat Collar (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roberta's old friend Dandina visits and says she brought Lassie a present. Lassie thinks it's a diamond bracelet she finds in Dandina's luggage, and puts it on her cat as a collar. The cat runs away and Lassie mobilises the neighbourhood children to find it. Dandina's fiance Pablo, who gave her the bracelet, arrives. The cat comes back but the police discover the bracelet contains stolen jewels: Pablo is a crook. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Lassie; Laddie; Roberta; Dandina; Pablo Pimenez [Bogus Bill Sleeko] |
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| Comic Story | The Smiling Swede (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sally parks her car at a lot and comes back to find out it's been sold. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; The Smiling Swede (first appearance; villain); Max (first appearance; villain); other crooks (first appearance; villains) |
| Notes | formerly credited to Al Bryant |
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| Comic Story | Admiral Bilge and the Pot of Gold (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Intellectual Amos; Admiral Bilge (villain); Phineas Demi-John (villain) |
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| Comic Story | Mr. Bones (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Steve Wood; Grimm J. Bones (first appearance; villain) |
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| Text Story | The Test (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Haunted Doll House (7 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Granny Gumshoe; Dr. Lucifer Shrinkem (first appearance; villain); Droop (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Australian Magic Murders (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man named Jonas is exiled in Australia, where he earns a fortune, and then returns to kill his former partners with his boomerang skills, which he passed off as "magic". |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; Garroby (introduction); Jonas (villain, introduction); Simon Hidge (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | Sgt McMayhem (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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