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Issue Details

Issue #52
Published June 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Will Lieberson (Executive Editor); Roy Ald (Editor)
Notes Index updated from information provided by Lou Mougin through the GCD Error list and a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

Cover Details - "Wrath of the Avenger!"

Genre Adventure

1 page Captain Midnight foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents Page"

Genre Adventure

8 page Captain Midnight story "Wrath of the Avenger!"

Characters The Avenger [Barlow Cragg] (villain; intro)
Genre Adventure

Half page filler "Famous Fliers"

Genre Fact

1 page Wheaties advertisement "Hank Greenberg"

Notes Ad in sequential art form.

1 page Pilot Pete story "A Dream of a Fellow"

Genre Gag

7 page Captain Midnight story "Versus the Space Raider!"

Characters Jagga (villain; intro)
Genre Adventure

1 page The Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil advertisement "The Case of the Tell-Tale Comb"

Notes Ad in sequential art form.

1 page filler "Your Invention Page!"

1 page Gillette Bicycle Tires advertisement "Bear Bike Facts"

Notes Ad in sequential art form. First line: "Race horse versus bike!"

6 page Captain Midnight story "Sergeant Twilight Trails a Tale!"

Genre Adventure

Half page filler "Captain Midnight's Air Quiz"

1 page Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll advertisement "Captain Tootsie's Counter-Spook"

Pencils C. C. Beck (signed)
Inks Pete Costanza (signed)
Notes Ad in sequential art form.

3 page Johnny Blair in the Air story "Perilous Journey!"

Genre Adventure

2 page "A Red Skye Story" text story "When Lightning Strikes..."

Genre Adventure
Script R. Gordon Kraus
Letters typeset

8 page Captain Midnight story "Against Dr. Osmosis!"

Characters Dr. Osmosis (villain; intro)
Genre Adventure

Half page filler "Aero-Triks"

1 page Jim Wise; "P-F" Canvas Shoes advertisement "Pokey Joe's Secret Weapon"

Notes Ad in sequential art form.

1 page Famous Sports Flops; Thom McAn advertisement "The Sucker Knockout!"

Notes Ad in sequential art form. On inside back cover.