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Publication | August 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every other month |
Notes | panel taken from story "Part 9: Trail to Adventure". |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; War |
Notes | panel taken from story "Part 9: Trail to Adventure". |
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Advertisement | Leaders Ride Roadmasters (1 page) |
Featuring | Roadmaster Bicycle |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Bicycle ad from Cleveland Welding Company in black and white on inside front cover.
Page also includes issue indicia. |
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| Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado (1 page) |
Synopsis | Captain Tootsie has the brilliant idea to fly airplanes directly into a tornado to break up the twister. |
Notes | An add for Tootsie Fudge, the precursor of today's Tootsie Roll. |
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Synopsis | While the Americans and Japanese battle over a secret island air strip, Taffy Tucker starts to recover from her amnesia - only enough to wonder how she ended up in the middle of a battle. She joins up with Marine Corp medical unit, and is put to use. |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Taffy Tucker |
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Comic Story | Part 2 Identity Discovered (3 pages) |
Synopsis | Taffy partially overcomes her amnesia to recover her identity. Meanwhile, her friends Joss and Patrick fight to hold the coast against Japanese ships seeking to establish a beachhead. |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Lt. G.M. 'Taffy' Tucker; Joss Goode |
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Comic Story | Part 3 Jap Trickery (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Joss and Patrick fret over the fate of Taffy Tucker and continue to search for her. They ultimately find her, partially amnesiatic, working at the field hospital. They help her fully regain her memory, and return her to base to face charges of being a Japanese spy. |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Joss Goode; Taffy Tucker |
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Comic Story | Part 4 Grand Re-union (3 pages) |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Col. Flip Corkin; Taffy Tucker; Major Bob Tucker |
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Comic Story | Part 5 Meet Grett Murmur (2 pages) |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Taffy Tucker; Grett Murmur (introduction) |
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Comic Story | Part 6 Flight into Danger (3 pages) |
Content | Genre: War |
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Comic Story | Part 7 Crash Landing (1 page) |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Taffy Tucker |
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Advertisement | Daydream Mike and His Wonderful Bike! (1 page) |
Featuring | Columbia Bicycles |
Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Colors:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
Notes | ad for Columbia bicycles |
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Featuring | Reliance Manufacturing |
Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Colors:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Boy's wear centerspread ad with an mail-in offer for a compass. |
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Advertisement | Bike-Hike Quiz (1 page) |
Synopsis | boys use their bikes to tour America's famous sites. |
Featuring | Fisk Bike Tires |
Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Colors:? (illustration) |
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Comic Story | Part 8 (1 page) |
Synopsis | Terry learns that the Chinese can't corroborate his sighting of a Japanese bomber crash, a fact that will bring him in front of a Board of Inquiry. The Chinese, admiring his courage, determine to try to find the missing plane. |
Content | Genre: War |
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Comic Story | Part 9 Trail to Adventure (7.67 pages) |
Synopsis | Terry's mysterious crashed Jap bomber is found, and he gets promoted by the board from Cadet to Flight Officer, but must still observe battles from the ground until he has more experience. Things heat up between Grett and Terry. |
Content | Genre: War | Characters: Col. 'Flip' Corkin; Grett Murmur |
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Synopsis | A group of thugs plan and execute a kidnapping, and almost get away scot free, if it weren't for the clues that one of the thugs leaves behind, landscape drawings of where their hide-out is located. |
Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: The Man in Black [Death] |
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Synopsis | A string of bizarre characters comes into Bimbo's diner, and he is perplexed until somebody tells him the circus is in town. |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Synopsis | Ricky can't see why Ginger thinks so highly of a boy who has a job at a department store. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ricky Roony; Ginger |
Notes | includes initials H.F.S.; possible credit? |
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Synopsis | Ricky finds a five-dollar bill on the ground, then proceeds to live like a king, treating himself and Ginger at the soda shop until he is told that it is counterfeit. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ricky Roony; Ginger |
Notes | initialed H.F.S.; possible signiture? |
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Featuring | Cartoon Laughs |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | a mixture of typeset gags with two single-panel gag cartoons. |
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Featuring | Puzzle Parade |
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Text Story | Final Curtain (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Black Cat |
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Text Story | Web of Gold (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Black Cat |
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Advertisement | The Adventures of Popsicle Pete and Bob Feller (1 page) |
Featuring | Popsicles |
Notes | comic about baseball players and a give-away offer connected with Popsicle. |
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Advertisement | Get Your Free Movie Star Pictures (1 page) |
Featuring | Schwinn Bicycle |
Notes | give-away promotion from Schwinn-Built Bicycle |
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