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Issue Details

Issue #180
Published February 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "OZARK IKE, No. 180." Code number is O.I.O.S. #180-482. Copyright 1945, 1946, 1947 by King Features Syndicate. Adapted from the "Ozark Ike" newspaper strip by Ray Gotto.

Cover Details

Characters Ozark Ike; Dinah
Genre sports
Pencils Ray Gotto [as Gotto] (signed)
Inks Ray Gotto [as Gotto] (signed)

1 page Ozark Ike's Whodunits story "Fred Merkle"

Characters Ozark Ike; Dinah
Synopsis After singling to send the winning run to third base, Ike doesn't run to second when the next batter hits a single to score the winning run and is called out, negating the run.
Genre sports
Script Ray Gotto
Pencils Ray Gotto
Inks Ray Gotto
Letters Ray Gotto ?
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Based on the famous Fred Merkle "boner" play that contributed to the loss of a pennant for the New York Giants in 1908. First Sunday newspaper strip of the series.
Reprinted from Ozark Ike's Whodunits (King Features Syndicate) 47.07.27 [Sunday]

32 page Ozark Ike story "Hillbilly Football and Ozark the Boxer"

Characters Ozark Ike; Dinah; Penny
Synopsis Ike plays in the farcical 47th annual Fatfield-McBatt Football Feud game, scoring the winning touchdown. He then goes to the city to seek his fortune. He becomes a prize fighter, but gets tricked out of his ring earnings by crooked promoters.
Genre sports
Script Ray Gotto
Pencils Ray Gotto
Inks Ray Gotto
Letters Ray Gotto ?
Notes Three tiers of panels per page. Two stories that segue into each other.
Reprinted from Ozark Ike (King Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1945 and 1946.

1 page Ozark Ike's Whodunits story "Mad Dash for Home"

Characters Ozark Ike; Dinah
Synopsis Ozark Ike makes a "mad dash" from first base to score on a routine single to left centerfield.
Genre sports
Script Ray Gotto
Pencils Ray Gotto
Inks Ray Gotto
Letters Ray Gotto ?
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Based on Enos Slaughter's identical feat for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1946 World Series.
Reprinted from Ozark Ike's Whodunits (King Features Syndicate) 47.08.10 [Sunday]

1 page Ozark Ike's Whodunits story "11 Strokes on a Hole"

Characters Ozark Ike; Dinah
Synopsis Leading a golf tournament by ten strokes going to the last hole, Ozark cards an 11 on the par 3 18th hole.
Genre sports
Script Ray Gotto
Pencils Ray Gotto
Inks Ray Gotto
Letters Ray Gotto ?
Notes Back cover. Based on Hall of Fame golfer Ben Hogan's 11 stroke hole in a 1947 tournament.
Reprinted from Ozark Ike's Whodunits (King Features Syndicate) 47.08.03 [Sunday]