Issue: #11
Published: August 1948, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Full Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: publishing frequency verbiage as per indicia; editor as listed in indicia
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Advertisement (1 page) |
Leaders Ride Roadmasters |
Featuring: |
Roadmaster Bicycle |
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Letters: typeset |
Comics-form Advertising (1 page) |
Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado |
Synopsis: |
Captain Tootsie has the brilliant idea to fly airplanes directly into a tornado to break up the twister. |
Characters: |
Captain Tootsie Rollo Secret Legion |
Comic Story (2 pages) |
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Synopsis: |
While the Americans and Japanese battle over a secret island air strip, Taffy Tucker starts to recover from her amnesia - only enough to wonder how she ended up in the middle of a battle. She joins up with Marine Corp medical unit, and is put to use. |
Genre: |
War |
Characters: |
Taffy Tucker |
Comic Story (3 pages) |
Part 2 Identity Discovered |
Synopsis: |
Taffy partially overcomes her amnesia to recover her identity. Meanwhile, her friends Joss and Patrick fight to hold the coast against Japanese ships seeking to establish a beachhead. |
Genre: |
War |
Characters: |
Lt. G.M. 'Taffy' Tucker Joss Goode Patrick Ryan |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
Part 3 Jap Trickery |
Synopsis: |
Joss and Patrick fret over the fate of Taffy Tucker and continue to search for her. They ultimately find her, partially amnesiatic, working at the field hospital. They help her fully regain her memory, and return her to base to face charges of being a Japanese spy. |
Genre: |
War |
Characters: |
Joss Goode Patrick Ryan Taffy Tucker |
Comic Story (3 pages) |
Part 6 Flight Into Danger |
Genre: |
War |
Characters: |
Terry Lee |
Advertisement (1 page) |
Daydream Mike and His Wonderful Bike! |
Featuring: |
Columbia Bicycles |
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Advertisement (2 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Reliance Manufacturing |
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Bike-Hike Quiz |
Featuring: |
Fisk Bike Tires |
Synopsis: |
boys use their bikes to tour America's famous sites. |
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Pencils: ? (illustration) | Inks: ? (illustration) | Colours: ? (illustration) |
Comic Story (1 page) |
Part 8 |
Synopsis: |
Terry learns that the Chinese can't corroborate his sighting of a Japanese bomber crash, a fact that will bring him in front of a Board of Inquiry. The Chinese, admiring his courage, determine to try to find the missing plane. |
Genre: |
War |
Characters: |
Terry Lee |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
Part 9 Trail to Adventure |
Synopsis: |
Terry's mysterious crashed Jap bomber is found, and he gets promoted by the board from Cadet to Flight Officer, but must still observe battles from the ground until he has more experience. Things heat up between Grett and Terry. |
Genre: |
War |
Characters: |
Terry Lee Col. 'Flip' Corkin Grett Murmur |
Comic Story (4 pages) |
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Synopsis: |
A group of thugs plan and execute a kidnapping, and almost get away scot free, if it weren't for the clues that one of the thugs leaves behind, landscape drawings of where their hide-out is located. |
Genre: |
Crime |
Characters: |
The Man In Black [Death] |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Bimbo's Beanery |
Synopsis: |
A string of bizarre characters comes into Bimbo's diner, and he is perplexed until somebody tells him the circus is in town. |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Ricky Roony |
Synopsis: |
Ricky can't see why Ginger thinks so highly of a boy who has a job at a department store. |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Ricky Roony Ginger |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Ricky Roony |
Synopsis: |
Ricky finds a five-dollar bill on the ground, then proceeds to live like a king, treating himself and Ginger at the soda shop until he is told that it is counterfeit. |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Ricky Roony Ginger |
Cartoon (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Cartoon Laughs |
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Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Humor |
Activity (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Puzzle Parade |
Text Story (1 page) |
Final Curtain |
Featuring: |
Black Cat |
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Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Black Cat |
Text Story (1 page) |
Web of Gold |
Featuring: |
Black Cat |
Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Black Cat |
Advertisement (1 page) |
The Adventures of Popsicle Pete and Bob Feller |
Featuring: |
Popsicles |
Advertisement (1 page) |
Get Your Free Movie Star Pictures |
Featuring: |
Schwinn Bicycle |
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