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Publication | July 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-monthly |
Notes | Painted cover. |
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Content | Genre: Adventure |
Notes | Painted cover. |
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Advertisement | Boys! Girls! Get 'em Now! Fireworks for July 4th (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Several fireworks packages offered by mail, including sparklers, firecrackers, Roman candles and other items, from Acme Sales Company. |
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Foreword/Afterword | In This Issue... (1 page) |
Synopsis | A list of the men and women featured in this issue. |
Featuring | Heroic Hall of Honor |
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Advertisement | Bang! Now You Can Buy Fireworks |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Fireworks by mail from Banner Fireworks Mfg. Co.
This is a vertical ad that covers the left third of the page. |
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Comic Story | Lady of Daring |
Synopsis | A recounting of Mary Wiggins' career as a stunt pilot and stunt driver. |
Featuring | Mary Wiggins |
Content | Characters: Mary Wiggins |
Notes | This feature is vertical and takes the right two-thirds of the page. |
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Comic Story | Rescue by Helicopter (8 pages) |
Synopsis | The U.S. Coast Guard rescues the survivors of a plane crash. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Lt. Guy Kleisch |
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Comic Story | The Impossible Mile (4 pages) |
Synopsis | The Lifesavers battle floods and bad roads to deliver an iron lung. |
Featuring | Roanoke's Volunteer Lifesavers |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Roaoke Lifesavers [Carl Hamilton; Mel Fischer; Lloyd Bennett; Frank Boggess; John Noftsinger] |
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Comic Story | Detective versus Killer (4 pages) |
Synopsis | Detective Patton enters an apartment building to apprehend a killer. |
Featuring | George Patton |
Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Detective George Patton |
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Comic Story | The XII Scout Law (4 pages) |
Synopsis | A scoutmaster uses the Jamboree to teach two youths about respect of religion. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dr. James E. West |
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Comic Story | A Miner Faces Death (2 pages) |
Synopsis | A miner saves a co-worker from being crushed. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Joseph Cannizzaro |
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| Their Maine Chance (1 page) |
Credits | Pencils:? [as R.] (signed) | Inks:? [as R.] (signed) |
Content | Genre: Drama |
Notes | Ad for bicycle tires. |
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| Bob Feller Says, Boys and Girls..." (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Bob Feller; Popsicle Pete |
Notes | Ad for Popsicles and a note that prizes are awarded for wrappers. Also ad for the Posicle Pete Fun Book. |
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Text Story | One Way to Safety (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Two painters are rescued from the bottom of a 50,000 gallon tank. |
Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Noel W. Phillips; Ernal C. Terry; |
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Comic Story | Fight for Life (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Nina Wilkins nurses a wounded man while they cross a stormy bay. |
Featuring | Nina Wilkins |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Nina Wilkins |
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Advertisement | New Easy Way Teaches Guitar (1 page) |
Notes | Ad for a guitar-playing course and a book of 53 songs. |
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Comic Story | Detective Harold Moore, N. Y. City (1 page) |
Synopsis | A short account of the career of Detective Harold Moore. |
Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Detective Harold Moore; Jimmy Walker |
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Comic Story | Rescue by Air (4 pages) |
Synopsis | A pilot rescues four boys adrift on a raft. |
Featuring | Frederick Landa |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Frederick Landa |
Notes | In a rare cross-company reference, one of the rescued boys comments : 'Gee, mister, that was better than anything Superman ever did!' |
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Comic Story | The Labrador Doctor (4 pages) |
Synopsis | A doctor braves ice and snow to treat a patient. |
Featuring | Doctor Grenfell |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dr. Grenfell |
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Comic Story | Mountain Rescue (2 pages) |
Synopsis | James Irwin sets a hiker's broken leg. |
Featuring | James Irwin |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: James Irwin; his father |
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Comic Story | Richard C. Gill (1 page) |
Featuring | Medical Hero |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Biography | Characters: Richard C. Gill |
Notes | Originally credited to August Lenox, but clearly signed. |
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Advertisement | New! Amazing Auto-Magic Picture Gun (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Ad for a projection toy from Allen Sales Co. Advertised as a Krypto-Ray Gun in some DC titles. |
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Advertisement | The Insult That Turned a Chump into a Champ (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Charles Atlas body-building ad.
Inside back cover. |
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Advertisement | Good Luck to You Boys! Girls! Women! Men! (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Ad promising birthstone rings as compensation for sales work.
Back cover. |
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