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Issue Details

Issue #212
Published January 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "DOCTOR BOBBS, No. 212." Code number is D.B.O.S. #212-491. Copyright 1945, 1948 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters Dr. Stephen Bobbs
Pencils Jim McArdell
Inks Jim McArdell
Notes Cover is comprised of panels from newspaper strips. None of the illustrations is from the interior story. The cover has the "This a King Features Comic" bullet on it.

35 page Doctor Bobbs story "Cactus Jack Returns to Jacktown"

Characters Dr. Stephen Bobbs; Carrie B. Wigglesworth; Adam Worthington Brokes (aka Cactus Jack); Martha Allgood; Cissie Allgood; Judge Flunk; Mayor Cruss
Synopsis Fabulously wealthy Adam Brokes hires Dr. Bobbs as his personal physician. Brokes takes Dr. Bobbs to Jacktown, a former ghost town that Brokes, under the name "Cactus Jack," had been spending money on for 20 years. Brokes and Bobbs disguise themselves as hobos to see how Brokes' money has been used. They find that Jacktown has been taken over by corrupt politicians who use Brokes' money to enrich themselves and hold an iron grip on the town.
Genre drama; western
Script Elliott Caplin
Pencils Jim McArdell
Inks Jim McArdell
Notes Story begins on inside front cover in black and white. Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on back cover in color. Credited to "Elliott and McArdell."
Reprinted from Dr. Bobbs (King Features Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1945