| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
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| Cover | Percy the Powerful! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Percy the Powerful |
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| Comic Story | Percy the Powerful (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tiny is challenged by a 90-pound weakling named Percy, who takes special pills every 12 hours for his tremendous strength. However, these special pills were stolen by an evil professor, who feeds them to animals, forcing Carnie to also take some of the pills in order to bring order back to the circus and clean up the mess left behind. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Lena; Major Midge; Tiny Tim; Percy the Powerful (introduction); Professor Goby (villain, introduction) |
| Notes | Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling". |
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| Comic Story | B. O. Railroad Co., (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | last app. in CRACK COMICS #52; next app. in BARKER #12 |
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| Comic Story | Mr. Bugg (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Granny Gumshoe; Mr. Bugg (first appearance; villain) |
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| Comic Story | The Will of Barry Taunton (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Sally O'Neil; Parker (first appearance; villain); Camille D'Arcy (first appearance; villain); Helen Taunton (first appearance) |
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| Comic Story | Faked Amnesia (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Laddie advises Lassie to fake amnesia to get out of punishment. Roberta sees through the ruse and tells Lassie that she's really the "new hired girl" and puts her to work doing chores. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Lassie; Laddie; Roberta |
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| Comic Story | Piracy Ploy (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A cruising yacht with society people is hijacked by hoodlums. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Quicksilver [Max]; Stilson (first appearance; villain); Yates (first appearance; villain); Trigger (first appearance; villain); other pirates (first appearance; villains) |
| Notes | Originally credited to Dan Zolnerowich. The pointed faces with eyes far apart and flying perons are all the trademark of Peter Riss |
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| Text Story | All That Glitters (2 pages) |
| Featuring | The Barker |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: The Barker [Carnie Callahan] |
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| Comic Story | Any Laundry? Any Dry Cleaning? (6 pages) |
| Content | Characters: Anthrop |
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| Comic Story | The Twin Terrorists (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Steve Wood; Sticker Latch (first appearance; villain); Latch (first appearance; villain; Sticker's brother) |
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