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Publication | December 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Don Winslow |
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| Speedy Wheeler Saves the Day and Wins a Bike (1 page) |
Synopsis | Speedy is told by his Dad that he can't afford to buy him a bike, but when his father leaves a briefcase with important papers in it at home, Speedy borrows a friend's bike and delivers them to his Dad....and receives a new bike in gratitude. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Speedy Wheeler; Jack |
Notes | On the inside front cover. |
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Synopsis | Don encourages his readers to collect waste paper as well as tin cans to help the war effort. |
Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Don Winslow |
Notes | A PSA for paper collecting as part of the war effort, along with the indicia and editorial information. |
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Comic Story | Aerial Pickup (8.67 pages) |
Synopsis | While flying Admiral Colby back to the naval base, hias plane is attacked by Japanese fighters. While the Admiral bails out, Don and Red take the plane into a water landing. Later, they begin a mission to rescue the Admiral and the vital attack plans he is carrying. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Don Winslow; Red; Admiral Colby; Admiral Warburton; The Japanese (villains) |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Promotes Master Comics and the feature Radar. |
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Synopsis | This illustrated page discusses facts about the famed Gilbert Hall of Science located at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street in New York, maker of American Flyer trains, Erector sets and chemistry sets. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Synopsis | Not having seen or heard from his girl in 15 years, Joe writes her a letter to have her send him her address. |
Featuring | Jetsam Joe |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jetsam Joe |
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Comic Story | He Always Has an Explanation Handy |
Synopsis | Eaglebeak challenges the throwing accuracy of someone and pays the price for it. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Eaglebeak Spruder |
Notes | Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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Activity | Don Winslow's Crossword Puzzle |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Don Winslow |
Notes | Crossword puzzle. |
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Synopsis | Joe is ordered by his Captain to paint the deck, a job reaquiring 20 gallons of paint. Joe discovers he only has one gallon and tries to paint quickly before he runs out of paint. |
Featuring | Jetsam Joe |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jetsam Joe |
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Comic Story | Stalemate (5.5 pages) |
Synopsis | Don volunteers to try and rescue a unit of Chinese freedom fighters from possibly being wiped out by japanese forces that have them stalemated. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Don Winslow; Red; General Hing; Colonel Martin; The Japanese (villains) |
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Illustration | Consolidated PB2Y-2 "Coronado" |
Featuring | Don Winslow's Fighting Ship |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | There is a strip at the very bottom of the page with promotional ads for Captain Marvel's Magic Folder and Rocket Raider. |
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Comic Story | Everything Always Seems to Be in His Favor |
Synopsis | Two toughs get the tables turned on them when they decide to lie in wait for Eaglebeak to knock his block off. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Eaglebeak Spruder; Rooney |
Notes | Credits suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
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Synopsis | Joe's Captain gets the better of Joe on payday. |
Featuring | Jetsam Joe |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jetsam Joe |
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Synopsis | Illustrated Wheaties promotional advertisement. |
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Text Story | A Break for Drake (1.33 pages) |
Synopsis | Drake's Grumman Avenger gets shot down in Japanese waters, but the American Air Force shows up just in time to drive away a Japanese rescue boat intent on making the pilot their prisoner. |
Featuring | A True "Warriors of the Sea" story |
Credits | Script: Bert Mills | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Ensign John Drake |
Notes | A true story in a series. |
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Text Article | Lifeboat Equipment |
Synopsis | This factual article discusses equipment that protects U.S. boys at sea: matches, oars, propellors, painters, plugs, provisions, rowlocks, rudder & tiller, sea anchor, storm oil, signal flag, signaling mirrors, signal pistol, water, and wooden bullet hole plugs. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Comic Story | Undersea Raiders (6.67 pages) |
Synopsis | After a Japanese sub torpedos the destroyer he is on, Don is captured by the Japanese, who attempt to torture him into relaying information as to the whereabouts of his transport. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Don Winslow; Red; Captain Mirmo; The Japanese (villains) |
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Text Article | A Special New Feature -- "British Seagoing Slang" |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Includes the solution to the crossword puzzle. |
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Synopsis | Although captured by a couple of thugs, Volto and Jimmy escape and help capture the duo before they can blow up an arsenal. |
Content | Characters: Volto; Jimmy |
Notes | This strip was copyrighted and promoted as a sales gimmick for Grape Nuts Flakes. |
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Synopsis | Illustrated ad for Kellogg's Shredded Wheat, which focuses in on the great prizes one can get from boxes of the cereal: action pictures of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and other Navy craft, which one can print with a hot iron onto sports shirts, jackets and swim suits. |
Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
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Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
Notes | Illustrated advertisement for Bit-O-Honey candy bar, and has a coupon for readers to send in in order to get "the key to your secret number."
On the inside back cover. |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Illustrated advertisement by the X-Acto Cresent Products Company, pushing their line of products, including the famed "X-Acto knife."
On back cover. |
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