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Issue Details

Issue #71
Published April 1949
Frequency bimonthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing George Brenner
Notes 1st 36-page issue

Cover Details - "The Barker outspiels Spellbinder Smith!"

Characters The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
Genre adventure; humor
Pencils Gill Fox
Inks Gill Fox

11 page Barker story "Spellbinder Smith"

Characters The Barker [Carnie Callahan]
Genre adventure; humor
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling
Notes title from cover; first line, "And what's mo', mah fellow citizens, if yo' vote for me..."

4 page Lassie story "Come, Ulysses!"

Characters Lassie
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

4 page Honeybun story "I'm so glad we decided to build a summer house, Miggs!"

Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson
Notes last app. in POLICE COMICS #88

6 page Sally O'Neil Policewoman story "Death Carries an Umbrella!"

Characters Sally O'Neil
Genre detective
Pencils Alice Kirkpatrick?
Inks Alice Kirkpatrick?

1 page Barker text story "Cross My Palm"

Characters The Barker
Letters typeset

6 page Quicksilver story "An artful thief engineered a shrewd plot for profit...and failed!"

Characters Quicksilver [Max]
Genre superhero
Pencils Dan Zolnerowich
Inks Dan Zolnerowich