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Publication | September 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bimonthly |
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Cover | Rustlers' Roundup; Races Against Death |
Featuring | Tex Granger; Perils of Pauline; Streaky Smith |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Streaky Smith; Tex Granger; Pauline; Bing Crosby [photograph] |
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Text Article | Bing Crosby (1 page) |
Featuring | Boys' Hero of the Month |
Credits | Pencils:? (Photograph) | Inks:? (Photograph) | Letters: Typeset |
Editing | Kenneth L. Hall |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | Inside Front Cover |
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Comic Story | ... Races Against Death (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Streaky is a counselor at the Pinetree Fresh Air
Camp, teaching boys who never had a chance to learn how to swim and paddle a canoe. |
Featuring | Streaky Smith of Essex High |
Content | Genre: Teen | Characters: Streaky Smith; Mr. Samson; Tommy Samson |
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Text Article | Get in the Swim (2 pages) |
Featuring | Coach's Corner |
Credits | Script: Robert Kiphuth | Letters: Typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Robert "Bob" Kiphuth |
Notes | Illustrated article about swimming by the Director
of Athletics and coach of the swimming team at
Yale University |
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Featuring | Hector |
Credits | Pencils: Vic Herman | Inks: Vic Herman |
Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Hector Hibble; Mr. Hybarr; Nancy; Mrs. Hibble |
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Comic Story | Perils of Pauline (4 pages) |
Synopsis | Pearl White, queen of the old-time movie serials,'
begins her daredevil career with a traveling troupe of stage players. |
Featuring | Perils of Pauline |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Drama | Characters: Pearl White [Betty Hutton]; Mike; Julia |
Notes | Adaptation of the 1947 Paramount motion picture |
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Featuring | Tex Granger |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tex Granger; Luke Conway |
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Letters Page | Mail Call |
Credits | Letters: Typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Activity | You're a Magician |
Credits | Letters: Typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Text Story | High Swamp (4 pages) |
Credits | Script: Jim Chapman | Letters: Typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure |
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Comic Story | The Case of the Hidden Eye (5 pages) |
Synopsis | "Bigbrain Billy," the smartest boy in the world, puts science on his side as he challenges the ruthless robbers of Midvale's city treasury. |
Featuring | The Adventures of Bigbrain Billy |
Credits | Script: Ernie Schroeder | Pencils: Ernie Schroeder | Inks: Ernie Schroeder |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Billy; Mayor Hartley |
Notes | Ernie Schroeder identified as writer and artist of this feature by Jerry Bails. |
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Advertisement | Drama on the Highway (1 page) |
Featuring | Adventures of R.C. and Quickie |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Drama | Characters: R.C.; Quickie; William Boyd [Hopalong Cassidy] |
Notes | Comic strip-type ad for Royal Crown Cola (with
brief cameo appearance by William "Hopalong
Cassidy" Boyd); Back Cover |
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