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| Here is a bit of pertinent information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Armstrong,_the_All-American_Boy
[A short Jack Armstrong animated TV pilot was developed by Hanna-Barbera for a proposed television series. However, when negotiations for rights to the characters collapsed, the planned series was reworked into what became the animated adventure Jonny Quest (1964). The Jack Armstrong footage with the African aborigines chucking spears at two people escaping by airplane by hovercraft survived in the closing credits for Jonny Quest.[8]]
I'm sure we've got a few Jonny Quest fans here? |
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| Publication | March 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Cover title taken from interior story. |
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| Cover | Jack Armstrong's Fighting Chance |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Jack Armstrong |
| Notes | Cover title taken from interior story. |
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| Comic Story | Last-Second Shot in NIT (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ernie Calverly's three-quarter court basket lifts Rhode Island to an overtime win over Bowling Green University in the National Invitational Tournament in 1946. |
| Featuring | Famous Split Seconds in Sports |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports | Characters: Ernie Calverly |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Jack Armstrong's Fighting Chance (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Kill Kamm |
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| Comic Story | Maurice "The Rocket" Richard (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Highlights of the career of Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens hockey player. |
| Featuring | Sports Champs |
| Credits | Pencils: Phil Berube (signed) | Inks: Phil Berube (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Maurice Richard |
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| Comic Story | Donald L. Smith (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Fifteen-year-old Donald L. Smith of Coldwater, Mich., rescues eight-year-old Nancy McConnell from drowning and earns the fifth Jack Armstrong Magazine All-American Award. |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong Magazine All-American Award |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Donald L. Smith; Nancy McConnell |
| Notes | "Based on information from the American Red Cross." Smith received an engraved medal and a year's subscription to Jack Armstrong Magazine. |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Redheaded Hijacker (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hardy uses scientific methods to track down robbers that hijacked a truckload of furs. |
| Featuring | Vic Hardy's Crime Lab |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Vic Hardy; Inspector Sheldon; Chief Dale |
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| Text Story | Acme Gear Works Payroll Robbery (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Vic Hardy has to figure out who was the "inside man" in a payroll robbery. |
| Featuring | Vic Hardy's Crime Clues |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Vic Hardy; Mr. Hoag; Jack Haines; Dot Wilson |
| Notes | A "you solve the mystery" story with the solution printed upside-down on the page. Text with five illustrations. |
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| Advertisement | "Ozzie" Cowles (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Profile of Ozzie Cowles, champion basketball coach of the University of Michigan. |
| Featuring | Wheaties; General Mills |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Ozzie Cowles |
| Notes | Text and illustrations. Wheaties "Breakfast of Champions" tagline. General Mills, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | Jack Armstrong Trails the Killer of Ghost Canyon (12 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Armstrong |
| Notes | Splash panel covers over 1.5 pages, no gutter between pages. |
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| Text Story | Slow Down to Win (3.167 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Jay Worthington (credited) | Pencils: Edd Ashe (signed) | Inks: Edd Ashe (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | Text story with two illustrations. Concluded on last interior page of the issue. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Action, Suspense, Thrills (1 page) |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong Adventure Magazine |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: JA5 |
| Content | Characters: Jack Armstrong (cameo); BIlly Fairfield (cameo); Betty Fairfield (cameo); Vic Hardy (cameo) |
| Notes | Promo for Jack Armstrong Adventure Magazine with mail-in subscription coupon. One year for $1.00. |
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| Comic Story | Rebel (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | A wild stallion is captured and trained to be a polo pony. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Rebel (horse); Mike Dodson; Bill Nixon |
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| Comic Story | Lady of the Law (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Betty meets policewoman Carol Shaw and helps her foil a jewelry store robbery. |
| Featuring | Betty Fairfield |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Sparling | Inks: Jack Sparling |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Betty Fairfield; Carol Shaw; Spider Webb; Little Blackie |
| Notes | Bottom one-sixth of pages 4 and 5 of the story are mail-in coupons for subscriptions to Parents' Magazine comics.
Jack Sparling identified as artist of this feature by Jerry Bails. |
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| Comic Story | Ready-y-y! Aim-- Fire! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy has misadventures in a firehouse, but saves the day at a real fire. |
| Featuring | Billy Fairfield |
| Credits | Pencils: Vic Herman? | Inks: Vic Herman? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Billy Fairfield; Mayor Broadbeam; Mrs. Broadbeam |
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| Cartoon | Eagle Scout |
| Synopsis | In a zoo, a Boy Scout observes an eagle wearing a scout neckerchief. |
| Credits | Script: Al Kaufman (signed) | Pencils: Al Kaufman (signed) | Inks: Al Kaufman (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Pantomime cartoon. |
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| Featuring | Mail Call |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Letters with no responses. Writers are Mrs. Earl Stump; William Hatcher; Ruth Ann Towbrowsky; Beatrice Louise Walker; Delois Phillips; Carl Graf; and George G. Gordon. Illustrated logo. |
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| Publisher advertisement | The Best Buys in Joy, Thrills, and Fun (1 page) |
| Featuring | Parents' Magazine Press |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Promo with mail-in coupon for subscriptions to Calling All Girls; Polly Pigtails; Varsity (magazine); Calling All Boys; Calling All Kids; True Comics; and Jack Armstrong. |
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| Advertisement | Sleek as the New Convertibles (1 page) |
| Featuring | Monark Silver King |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Illustrated ad for 1948 Monark Super Deluxe bicycle. Monark Silver King, Inc., Chicago, Ill. |
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