Additional Information |
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Publication | November 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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Cover | Touch of Death! |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Doll Man [Darrel Dane] |
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Comic Story | The Man Whose Touch Is Death (13 pages) |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dix (first appearance); Crane (first appearance; villain) |
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Comic Story | The Fireman (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Blimpy |
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Comic Story | In Fisticufia (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Perky; Jake Hiccups (first appearance); Thomas Thumb (first appearance); Two-Ton Titanic (first appearance) |
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Synopsis | Vincent wants a dog for a pet. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza |
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Synopsis | A sleeping Vincent falls prey to some mischievous kids. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza |
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Synopsis | Vincent's rant to a bogus psychoanalyst about his sister Lala gets him into trouble. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lala Palooza; Vincent Palooza; Dr. Sigmund Quack |
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Comic Story | Diamonds In the Trumpet (6 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Swing Sisson; Marmo and his gang (first appearance; villains; one death) |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | strip reprints |
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Text Story | Red God (2 pages) |
Featuring | Perry Scott |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Perry Scott |
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Comic Story | Herk U. Lees Gym (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Poison Ivy; Herk U. Lees (first appearance) |
Notes | Previous indexer credited Bernard Dibble but this does not look at all like any of his work (including 2 other strips in this issue, Lala Palooza and Big Top). Bails credits both Gill Fox and Paul Gustavson with art on the Poison Ivy strip in 1946. |
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Comic Story | The Hunting Trip (5 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Roscoe |
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Synopsis | Butch obtains a whistling monkey for the circus but the monkey gets him into trouble. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boss Jeff Bangs; Butch; Farragut |
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Synopsis | Butch's one-man band is actually a midget with a phonograph hidden inside a drum. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butch; Boss Jeff Bangs; Manny the Midget |
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Comic Story | The Pearl Devil (7 pages) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children; Spy | Characters: Rusty Ryan; The Boyville Brigadiers [Alababa; Pierpont Lee]; The Pearl Devil [Jones] (villain, introduction) |
Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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