| Issue | #58 |
| Published | 1944 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | ? |
| Notes | Indicia title is "SMILIN' JACK, No. 58." No code number; Copyright 1940 by News Syndicate Co., Inc. |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Dixie Lee |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Dixie Lee; Mr. Beaverduck; Joy Beaverduck; Fat Stuff |
| Synopsis | Jack takes a job with Beaverduck family and has to contend with Beaverduck's screwball daughter, Joy, who is a terrible pilot. |
| Script | Zack Mosley |
| Pencils | Zack Mosley |
| Inks | Zack Mosley |
| Notes | Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white. |
| Reprinted | from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940 |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Joy Beaverduck; Fat Stuff; Woo Woo; Dixie Lee; Mr. Beaverduck |
| Synopsis | Jack continues to have problems with his rich, spoiled, scatter-brained girl boss, who keeps getting him into tough spots while he's flying her and her friends around. |
| Script | Zack Mosley |
| Pencils | Zack Mosley |
| Inks | Zack Mosley |
| Reprinted | from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940 |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Joy Beaverduck; Mr. Beaverduck; Fat Stuff; Downwind Jaxon; Bottles |
| Synopsis | Joy's father puts Jack in charge of her aviation activities. Joy tries a little romance on Jack, but he spurns her because he's still in love with Dixie. Since Dixie won't marry Jack until she regains her sight, Joy comes up with a plot to make Jack lose his pilot's license and keep him from raising money for Dixie's operation. |
| Script | Zack Mosley |
| Pencils | Zack Mosley |
| Inks | Zack Mosley |
| Reprinted | from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940 |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Joy Beaverduck; Bottles; Downwind Jaxon; Dixie Lee; Fat Stuff |
| Synopsis | The small-time hoodlum that Joy hired to make Jack lose his license does his job and frames Jack for buzzing airliners and flying drunk. Joy tries to stay close to Jack by hiring him to drive the tow car for her glider. |
| Script | Zack Mosley |
| Pencils | Zack Mosley |
| Inks | Zack Mosley |
| Reprinted | from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940 |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Joy Beaverduck; Downwind Jaxon; Fat Stuff; Dixie Lee |
| Synopsis | After Jack spurns her advances, Joy decides to set a new altitude record for gliding. Despite Jack and Downwind's warnings, she dives into a thunderhead and her glider is torn apart. She parachutes down, but lands hard and is injured. Jack has to fly her to the hospital, despite not having a pilot's license. Joy needs a blood transfusion and the only one with her blood type is Dixie Lee. |
| Script | Zack Mosley |
| Pencils | Zack Mosley |
| Inks | Zack Mosley |
| Notes | Code number "P.C. 97-442" for Popular Comics #97 is on the first page. |
| Reprinted | from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940; from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #97 [comic book adaptation] |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Joy Beaverduck; Downwind Jaxon; Dixie Lee; Fat Stuff; Sweet Dreams; Gumbo Grabber |
| Synopsis | While the blood transfusion is being set up, Joy, raving in delirium, tells everyone how she set up Jack to lose his license to keep Dixie from getting her sight back. After the transfusion, Joy is ashamed of her actions and decides to pay for Dixie's operation, but secretly. Dixie goes by ship to Europe for the operation. Jack gets his pilot's license back and he and Downwind get a job Down South as cotton crop-dusters. |
| Script | Zack Mosley |
| Pencils | Zack Mosley |
| Inks | Zack Mosley |
| Notes | Code number "P.C. 98-444" for Popular Comics #98 is on the first page. Only three tiers of panels per page instead of the usual four. |
| Reprinted | from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940; from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936) #98 [comic book adaptation] |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Downwind Jaxon; Joy Beaverduck; Gumbo Grabber; Sweet Dreams |
| Synopsis | Jack and Downwind have been threatened by a rival crop-dusting outfit owned by Gumbo Grabber, who happens to be Joy Beaverduck's uncle. (Joy is recuperating from her accident at his plantation.) Two men have disappeared and Jack does some investigating. He gets caught by Grabber, who plans to get rid of him in a cotton baler. Joy comes along while Grabber and Jack are fighting and accidentally beans Jack with a crowbar. Grabber comes after Joy, but she nails him with the crowbar and he falls into the baler and is crushed. |
| Script | Zack Mosley |
| Pencils | Zack Mosley |
| Inks | Zack Mosley |
| Notes | Story continues on the inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Code number "P.C. 100-446" for Popular Comics #100 at bottom of first page. Original comic book adaption is eight pages, this issue has the last page omitted and the dialogue in the last panel changed. |
| Reprinted | from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940; from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #100 [minus last page] |