| Additional Information |
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| Publication | June 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every other month |
| Notes | Cover title from interior story. |
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| Cover | Mystery on the Diamond |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Vic Hardy (inset) |
| Notes | Cover title from interior story. |
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| PSA | A Message to the Boys of America from Jack Armstrong (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Jack uses an incident in the ring involving Joe Louis to promote sportsmanship. |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Joe Louis |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Large illustration and text. |
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| Comic Story | Jack Armstrong Solves the Mystery on the Diamond (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Jack Armstrong; Jim Fairfield |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Silent Southpaw (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | A getaway car overturns while fleeing a robbery. One of the crooks dies, but the other escapes with the loot. Vic Hardy has to find a way to identify the pair. |
| Featuring | Vic Hardy's Crime Lab |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Vic Hardy |
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| Advertisement | Phil Rizzuto (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Highlights of Phil Rizzuto's 1947 season as shortstop of the world champion New York Yankees. |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Phil Rizzuto |
| Notes | Illustrated ad for Wheaties "Breakfast of Champions" cereal from General Mills, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | Frank O'Bannon (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Frank O'Banon of Corydon, Ind., saves his brother from drowning. |
| Featuring | Jack Armstrong Magazine All-American Award |
| Content | Characters: Frank O'Banon; Robert O'Banon |
| Notes | "Based on information from the American Red Cross." O'Banon received an engraved medal and "a shut-in youngster of his choice will receive a free one-year subscription to Jack Armstrong Magazine." |
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| Text Story | Danger Trail (2.33 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Lance Ramsey |
| Notes | Text story with one large illustration. |
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| Cartoon | Stepladder for Jump Ball |
| Synopsis | A referee climbs a stepladder before tossing the ball for a jump ball in basketball. |
| Credits | Script: Dan Rilgo? (signed) | Pencils: Dan Rilgo? (signed) | Inks: Dan Rilgo? (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | Pantomime cartoon. Signature is hard to read. |
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| Advertisement | Fun! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for "Bozo and his Rocket Ship" record and storybook set from Capitol. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ads for Electric Light Jazz Bow Tie for $1.95 from Bernard Fine Co., New York, N.Y.; Radio Microphone for $1.98 from Seyco Mike, Inc., New York, N.Y.; and stamp catalogue from H. E. Harris & Co., Boston, Mass. |
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| Synopsis | A referee gives some unorthodox instructions to two boxers. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | Signature is hard to read. |
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| Daydream Mike and His Wonderful Bike! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Mike daydreams about having a bicycle in Roman times. |
| Content | Characters: Daydream Mike |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for Columbia bicycles. Includes mail-in coupon for "bike-chief siren" and Columbia catalogue for 15 cents. Westfield Manufacturing Company, Westfield, Mass. |
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| Comic Story | Rhino! (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bill Kelly and Bob Ward go to Africa to get some wild animal motion pictures and have a close call with a rhinoceros. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Bill Kelly; Bob Ward; Omalu |
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| Advertisement | Win This Bicycle! (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Centerfold ad for contest by Safe-T Cone Co., Chicago 15, Ill. (ice cream cones) with 500 prizes of Monark Super De Luxe bicycles to be given away. |
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| Comic Story | The Counterfeiters (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jack Armstrong visits Vic Hardy at his lab and learns facts about paper currency and how to detect a counterfeit bill. Then the lesson gets put to practical use when counterfeiters are found in the area and Vic and Jack have to help capture the gang. |
| Featuring | Vic Hardy; Jack Armstrong |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Vic Hardy; Jack Armstrong; Chief Dale; Professor Proteus |
| Notes | Story starts with a large illustration and a half-page of story in text format. Then with page two it changes into a regular comic story. |
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| Comic Story | Billy Makes Magic (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Billy is raising chickens and uses some of their eggs as props in his magician's act in an amateur show. |
| Featuring | Billy Fairfield's Cartoons of His Own Misadventures |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Billy Fairfield; Egbert Sneery |
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| Comic Story | Lion on the Loose (4.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | Betty is friends with Molly Madden, a star trapeze artist in the circus. When a lion escapes, Betty comes up with an idea to lure him back to his cage. |
| Featuring | A New Betty Fairfield Adventure |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Betty Fairfield; Molly Madden |
| Notes | Bottom one-sixth of pages three and four of the story are subscription forms. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Subscription forms |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Two one-sixth page subscription forms for Parent's Magazine Press comics. At bottom of pages three and four of the previous sequence (back-to-back). |
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| Advertisement | 3 Great Sport Books Every American Boy is Bustin' to Own! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Joe Dimaggio (illustration) |
| Notes | Ad for sports books: Jackie Robinson: My Own Story; Lucky to Be a Yankee by Joe DiMaggio; and Joe Louis: Picture Story of His Life. $1.00 each from Greenberg Press, New York 22, N.Y. |
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| Foreword/Afterword | An Important Notice to Jack Armstrong Readers |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Notice that publication of Jack Armstrong is changing from monthly to bi-monthly. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Two Swell Magazines for You! |
| Featuring | Parents' Magazine Press |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Promo for subscriptions to Jack Armstrong and True Comics, with mail-in coupon. 12 issues for $1.00, 24 issues for $2.00. |
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| Advertisement | Sleek as the New Convertibles (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover ad for Monark bicycles, with the Super De Luxe model illustrated. Monark Silver King, Chicago 35, Ill. |
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