Issue | #11 |
Published | August 1948 |
Frequency | every other month |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Leon Harvey |
Notes | publishing frequency verbiage as per indicia; editor as listed in indicia |
Pencils | Milton Caniff (signed) |
Inks | Milton Caniff (signed) |
Notes | panel taken from story "Part 9: Trail to Adventure". |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Bicycle ad from Cleveland Welding Company in black and white on inside front cover. Page also includes issue indicia. |
Characters | Captain Tootsie |
Script | C.C. Beck |
Pencils | C.C. Beck |
Inks | C.C. Beck |
Notes | An add for Tootsie Fudge, the precursor of today's Tootsie Roll. |
Characters | Taffy Tucker |
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 |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Characters | Lt. G.M. 'Taffy' Tucker; Joss Goode; Patrick Ryan |
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 |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Characters | Joss Goode; Patrick Ryan; Taffy Tucker |
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 |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Characters | Col. Flip Corkin; Taffy Tucker; Major Bob Tucker |
Genre | War |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Characters | Terry Lee; Taffy Tucker; Grett Murmur (introduction) |
Genre | war |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Characters | Terry Lee |
Genre | war |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Characters | Terry Lee; Taffy Tucker |
Genre | War |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | ? (illustration) |
Inks | ? (illustration) |
Colors | ? (illustration) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | ad for Columbia bicycles |
Pencils | ? (illustration) |
Inks | ? (illustration) |
Colors | ? (illustration) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Boy's wear centerspread ad with an mail-in offer for a compass. |
Synopsis | boys use their bikes to tour America's famous sites. |
Pencils | ? (illustration) |
Inks | ? (illustration) |
Colors | ? (illustration) |
Characters | Terry Lee |
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 |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Characters | Terry Lee; Col. 'Flip' Corkin; Grett Murmur |
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 |
Script | Milton Caniff |
Pencils | Milton Caniff |
Inks | Milton Caniff |
Characters | The Man in Black [Death] |
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 |
Pencils | Bob Powell (signed) |
Inks | Bob Powell (signed) |
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 |
Script | Art Helfant |
Pencils | Art Helfant |
Inks | Art Helfant |
Reprinted | from Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #3 |
Characters | Ricky Roony; Ginger |
Synopsis | Ricky can't see why Ginger thinks so highly of a boy who has a job at a department store. |
Genre | humor |
Notes | includes initials H.F.S.; possible credit? |
Characters | Ricky Roony; Ginger |
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 |
Notes | initialed H.F.S.; possible signiture? |
Genre | gags |
Pencils | Charles Strauss (signed) |
Inks | Charles Strauss (signed) |
Notes | a mixture of typeset gags with two single-panel gag cartoons. |
Characters | Black Cat |
Genre | adventure |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Black Cat |
Genre | adventure |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | comic about baseball players and a give-away offer connected with Popsicle. |
Notes | give-away promotion from Schwinn-Built Bicycle |