| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1949 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bimonthly |
| Notes | Cover is the splash panel of the interior story. |
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| Cover | Deadline for Death! |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Billy Fairfield; Betty Fairfield |
| Notes | Cover is the splash panel of the interior story. |
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| Comic Story | Did You Know? (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Five sport facts. |
| Featuring | Sports Shorts |
| Credits | Pencils: Phil Berube (signed) | Inks: Phil Berube (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports | Characters: Babe Ruth; Bob Feller; Gene Tunney; Hans Kolehmainen; Man o' War (horse) |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Black and red. |
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| Comic Story | Message from the Past (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Credits | Inks: Bill Elder |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Jim Fairfield; Billy Fairfield |
| Notes | Inks credit from Ger Apeldoorn via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8698). |
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| Comic Story | The Case That Hung by a Hair (7 pages) |
| Featuring | Vic Hardy's Crime Lab |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Vic Hardy |
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| Comic Story | Deadline for Death! (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mike O'Hara has contracted with Harry Durant's mob to borrow oil-drilling equipment. If he doesn't strike oil in six months, Durrant gets his property. As the deadline nears, O'Hara is near striking oil and Durrant wants to make sure he doesn't do it before the deadline. |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Credits | Inks: Bill Elder |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Jim Fairfield; Billy Fairfield; Betty Fairfield; Mike O'Hara |
| Notes | Splash panel is the same as cover. Inks credit from Ger Apeldoorn via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8698). |
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| Text Story | Enemy of the Outlaws - Burt Mossman (1.833 pages) |
| Synopsis | Arizona Ranger Burt Mossman rides undercover with rustlers to gather evidence against them. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Burt Mossman; Augustine Chacon; Bart Alvord; Billy Stiles |
| Notes | Text story with no illustration. |
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| Advertisement | Play Baseball in your Home Now! |
| Featuring | Casey on the Mound |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for a tabletop baseball game: Casey on the Mound. $2.98 postpaid from Rudolf Field, New York, N.Y. |
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| Comic Story | The Initiation (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Lettermen's Club is planning an initiation ceremony and the principal gets caught in the middle of it. |
| Featuring | Billy Fairfield's Cartoons of his Own Misdaventures |
| Credits | Pencils: Vic Herman | Inks: Vic Herman |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Billy Fairfield; Principal Elmer Q. Fuddy |
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| Advertisement | Lou Boudreau (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Profile of Lou Boudreau, player-manager of the Cleveland Indians, 1948 World Series champs. |
| Featuring | Wheaties; General Mills |
| Content | Characters: Lou Boudreau |
| Notes | Ad for Wheaties, "Breakfast of Champions," breakfast cereal. General Mills, Inc. |
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| Advertisement | Can You Find the Secret Clues to Monark's Popularity? (1 page) |
| Featuring | Monark Bicycles |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for 1949 Monark Super Deluxe bicycle. Monark Silver King, Inc., Chicago, Ill. |
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| Foreword/Afterword | The Automobile Race from New York to Paris (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Summary of a 1908 auto race from New York to Paris, via San Francisco and Siberia. |
| Featuring | Sports Shorts |
| Credits | Pencils: Phil Berube | Inks: Phil Berube |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: George Schuster |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Black and red. |
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| Publisher advertisement | One of These Swell Magazines Is Just for You (1 page) |
| Featuring | Parents' Magazine Press |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Promo, with mail-in coupon, for subscriptions to True Comics; Polly; Calling All Kids; Tex Granger; Calling All Girls; and Varsity magazine. Only color is yellow background. |
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