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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published August 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing George Brenner

Cover Details

Characters The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
Genre adventure; humor
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole

11 page Barker story "A Corpse For a Cannonball"

Characters The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Bombo (first appearance; the human cannonball); Al Cazzoni [Al Hassen] (first appearance; villain; death); Drago (first appearance; villain); Amby (first appearance; villain)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling
Notes title from cover

1 page Windy Breeze story "Here Lies Windy Breeze--He Lies and Lies and Lies"

Characters Windy Breeze
Genre humor
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Notes not same strip as in issue #43

7 page Lassie story "The Owls' Election"

Characters Lassie
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

8 page Sally O'Neil Policewoman story "Nick the Knife"

Characters Sally O'Neil; Nick the Knife (first appearance; villain)
Genre detective
Pencils Bill Ward?
Inks Bill Ward?

6 page Intellectual Amos story "Amos and the Pirates"

Characters Intellectual Amos; Cap'n Flint and his pirates (first appearance; villains)
Genre humor; adventure; children
Script Andre LeBlanc
Pencils Andre LeBlanc
Inks Andre LeBlanc

1 page Salty Waters story

Genre humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

7 page Quicksilver story "The Murder Hobbyists"

Characters Quicksilver [Max]; Jochem (first appearance; death); The Murder Hobbyists (first appearance; villains)
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Quackenbush
Inks Bill Quackenbush

2 page text article "Carribee"

Letters typeset

6 page Whistler story "Monster of Milton Park"

Characters The Whistler [Mallory Drake]; Tom Milton (first appearance; villain)
Genre superhero; detective
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

7 page Destroyer 171 story "The Red Devil Mission"

Characters The Japanese (villains)
Genre war
Pencils Al Camy?
Inks Al Camy?