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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published December 1939
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Margery McKay

Cover Details

Genre humor

8 page Mandrake story Mandrake finds Jeff "two-timing" Dot with another girl--

Genre Adventure; Superhero
Script Lee Falk
Pencils Phil Davis
Inks Phil Davis
Notes strip reprints

4 page Jan and Aloysius story "Aren't these cute little chicks?"

Genre humor
Script Joe Musial
Pencils Joe Musial
Inks Joe Musial
Notes strip reprints

2 page Indian Lore story "Helped by the gossip bird..."

Genre Fact
Script Jimmy Thompson
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

1 page Roger story "They got us back to their goal-line--"

Script Bob Dunn
Pencils Bob Dunn
Inks Bob Dunn

2 page Tippie and Cap Stubbs story "Gee! Movin's pretty fierce..."

Script Edwina Dumm
Pencils Edwina Dumm
Inks Edwina Dumm
Notes strip reprints

4 page Inspector Wade story "The Poison Thorn Gang succeeds..."

Script Sheldon Stark
Pencils Neil O'Keefe
Inks Neil O'Keefe
Notes strip reprints

2 page The Romance of Flying text article "War Birds"

Script Clayton Knight
Letters typeset

4 page Secret Agent X-9 story "Count Freddy sure likes Madame Inez--"

Genre adventure
Script Robert Storm
Pencils Austin Briggs
Inks Austin Briggs
Notes strip reprints

4 page Henry story

Genre humor
Script Carl Anderson
Pencils Carl Anderson
Inks Carl Anderson
Notes strip reprints

2 page Seein' Stars story

Genre biography
Script Feg Murray
Pencils Feg Murray
Inks Feg Murray

4 page Popeye story "I ast me poppa to watch after Olive an' Wimpy"

Genre Humor
Script Elzie Segar
Pencils Elzie Segar
Inks Elzie Segar
Notes strip reprints

4 page Barney Baxter story "Bucking terrific winds, thru the worst storm..."

Genre adventure; aviation
Script Frank Miller
Pencils Frank Miller
Inks Frank Miller
Notes strip reprints

1 page Little Acorns story "In Trouble"

Genre humor
Script Bob Dunn
Pencils Bob Dunn
Inks Bob Dunn

1 page Little Nature Stories text story "Green Forest People Breathe Freely Again"

Script Thornton W. Burgess
Letters typeset

4 page Blondie story "Daisy hasn't come home yet--"

Genre humor
Script Chic Young
Pencils Chic Young
Inks Chic Young
Notes strip reprints

4 page Bunky story "Poor little shaver--"

Genre humor
Script Billy DeBeck
Pencils Billy DeBeck
Inks Billy DeBeck
Notes strip reprints

4 page Little Miss Muffet story "Poor little orphaned Jerry--"

Script Fanny Y. Cory
Pencils Fanny Y. Cory
Inks Fanny Y. Cory
Notes strip reprints

4 page Dinglehoofer story "Look, Taddy!"

Script Harold Knerr
Pencils Harold Knerr
Inks Harold Knerr