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| Name | Headline Comics 1 (alt) | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 1. |
| Cover | Begin the Jr. Rangers / 1 page |
| Advertisement | Make Your Own Records at Home / Home Recorder / Recordo (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Bob |
| First Line | Hear yourself sing or play |
| Notes | Send $2.98 for a home recording playback unit including six two-sided, blank records from Home Recording Company, Studio NP, 9East 19th St., New York, N.Y. On inside front cover. |
| Story | Junior Rangers (20 pages) |
| Synopsis | Roger Ranger Jr. watches his father and mother killed by Nazi Gestapo agent Baron Blackheart. He vows to avenge their deaths by opposing World War II Axis aggression but is rejected in his efforts to join up due to his youth. He joins with two similar-minded youths and forms the Junior Rangers. The trio is soon knee-deep in the fight against the Axis and Roger gets the chance to confront Baron Blackheart. |
| Characters | Roger Ranger Sr. (first appearance, death); Roger Ranger Jr.'s mother (first appearance, death); Baron Blackheart (villain, first appearance, apparent death); Colonel Simms; Uncle Bob |
| Script | Jack Binder (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Binder (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Binder ? |
| First Line | Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased... |
| Story | Animal Crackers (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Script | Buster Green |
| Pencils | Buster Green |
| First Line | You say you're 236 years old? |
| Comic Story | Cliff Gordon the Wonder Boy / Cliff Gordon (7.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cliff Gordon, young American patriot, invents a car-plane-boat which he tries to offer to an uninterested American council. Instead, Nazis attempt to steal it and it is up to Cliff to foil their plans. |
| Characters | Mr. Lavell (German spy) |
| Pencils | Fred Bell ? |
| Inks | Fred Bell ? |
| First Line | Just as necessity is the mother of invention, so will a country's need... |
| Publisher advertisement | Win War Bonds for Your Ideas! |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | House ad soliciting letters from readers suggesting inventions to help win the war. Best invention wins a prize of $25.00. Send to Invention Editor, Headline Comics, 1790 Broadway, New York, N.Y. |
| Story | Happy and Scrappy (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Happy and his dog Scrappy collect scrap for the war effort. |
| Genre | Humor; Children |
| Pencils | Ken Browne |
| Inks | Ken Browne |
| First Line | Gee, Scrappy - I wish I was old enough to join the army... |
| Notes | JVJ index card attached to online scanned version says Ken Browne is aka Terry Gilkison. |
| Story | Little Johnny Doolittle (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young Johnny solves the murder and robbery of butcher Charles Mitchel. |
| Genre | Children; Crime |
| Characters | Mr. Schultz; Lester Clinton; Mr. McCabe; May Sherman; Tom; Mr. Rogers |
| Pencils | Al Zere |
| Inks | Al Zere |
| First Line | Crime rears its ugly head in the presence of... |
| Text Story | Grandfather Clock (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Script | Crest Wood |
| Story | Perry Allen (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Perry and his pal Don run into a Fifth Columnist in the jungles of Brazil. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Guido Paulo (first appearance); Manuel (death) |
| Pencils | Lou Ferstadt |
| Inks | Lou Ferstadt |
| First Line | Swashbuckling Yankee adventurers they are... |
| Story | Private Messkit (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Private Messkit is offered a free hot dog to deliver a hotdog order to a building across the street. |
| Genre | Humor; Military |
| Script | Blaine |
| Pencils | Al Zere |
| Inks | Al Zere |
| First Line | Huh! 48 hour pass and not a dime to my name! |
| Story | Buck Sanders (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Buck and his friends foil the Mighty Midget, a Fifth Columnist crook trying to steal airplane plans. |
| Genre | Children |
| Characters | Geezle; Gorilla; The Mighty Midget; Sergeant Cork |
| First Line | It takes all kinds to make the world. |
| Notes | app. between PRIZE COMICS #28 / 29 |
| Publisher advertisement | Calling All Readers! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | House ad for Prize Comics with cover reproductions |
| Pencils | Jack Binder |
| Inks | Jack Binder |
| Notes | Cover of Prize Comics #v3#4 (28) (February 1943) is shown, with art by Jack Binder. No new art in this ad. |
| Comic Story | General Douglas MacArthur / Douglas MacArthur (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Biography of General Douglas MacArthur. |
| Genre | Non-fiction; Biography |
| Characters | Douglas MacArthur |
| Pencils | Jack Binder ? Jack Binder ? |
| Inks | Jack Binder ? Jack Binder ? |
| Notes | Art strongly resembles the signed Jack Binder war-hero bio story in issue 2. The JVJ index cards attached to the online scanned versions indicates this may be Binder shop work. |
| Advertisement | Jim Prentice Announces His Super Electric Football / Electric Football [Jim Prentice] (1 page) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Notes | Send $2.00 for an electric football game from Electric Game Company Inc., 213 Bridge Street, Holyoke, Mass. On inside back cover. |
| Advertisement | Free With This Offer: 33 Power Telescope Lens Kit / Wonders of Science Simplified (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Send $1.98 for "Wonders of Science Simplified" and free telescope from Metro Publications, Dept. 582, 50 West 17th Street, New York. On back cover. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
