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Issue #88
Published October 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Don Rico?
Inks Don Rico?

12 page Human Torch story "The Lethal Lollipops"

Characters GS: Sun Girl
Synopsis A surgeon smuggles diamonds into the country inside lollipops which get left in a cab. A little eats one of the lollipops and needs surgery to have the diamond removed. The surgeon was toying with the idea of a life of crime since he had lost his faith in his medical skills, but after Torch demands he save the life of the little girl, his faith is restored in himself and he abandons all criminal intent.
Genre superhero
Pencils Ken Bald
Inks Ken Bald

10 page Sub-Mariner story "Black Oil of Doom"

Characters GS: Namora; V: Bryan Porter (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

2 page text story "Roll Out the Barrel"

Letters typeset

7 page Sun Girl story "Doomed--One Town"

Characters I: B. Grimes, Sherry Grimes, Jenkins
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Syd Shores

7 page Captain America story "The Wound No Man Could See"

Characters GS: Golden Girl; I: Col. Ross (Golden Girl's father?), Chuck M. Berry, Jerry Malcolm, Penny Collyer
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Burgos?
Inks Al Gabriele

8 page Blonde Phantom story "The Clown Who Couldn't Laugh"

Characters I: Jeepo, Jerry; V: Chuck and another crook (I for both)
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Al Gabriele