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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published December 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing ?

Cover Details

Genre Superhero; adventure
Pencils Joe Musial
Inks Joe Musial

8 page Mandrake the Magician story "Mandrake has been cornered by thugs..."

Genre Superhero; adventure
Script Lee Falk
Pencils Phil Davis
Inks Phil Davis
Reprinted strip reprints (1940)

4 page Indian Lore story "On still evenings..."

Genre facts
Script (?) Jimmy Thompson
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

1 page Little Acorns story

Genre humor
Script Bob Dunn
Pencils Bob Dunn
Inks Bob Dunn

Half page Dollar-A-Dither story

Genre humor
Pencils Joe Musial
Inks Joe Musial

2 page Stamp Corner filler "The Ugly Duckling"

Script Eugene L. Pollack
Letters typeset

8 page Lone Ranger story "There's a house, Tonto..."

Genre Western
Script (?) Fran Striker (credited)
Pencils (?) Charles Flanders
Inks (?) Charles Flanders
Reprinted strip reprints (1940)

4 page Thimble Theatre starring Popeye story "The Captain is missing so that makes me Captain..."

Genre humor
Script (?) Tom Sims
Pencils (?) B. Zaboly
Inks (?) B. Zaboly
Reprinted strip reprints (1939)

2 page Jan and Aloysius story "Now, Aloysius-- you must leave my golf ball alone..."

Genre humor
Script (?) Joe Musial
Pencils Joe Musial
Inks Joe Musial

2 page Seein' Stars story "Brice/H.Herbert/Flynn/Mix/Bennett/Del Rio"

Genre biography
Script Feg Murray
Pencils Feg Murray
Inks Feg Murray

6 page Secret Agent X-9 story "Excellency! It's Mrs. Double!"

Genre Adventure
Script Max Trell [as Robert Storm]
Pencils Austin Briggs
Inks Austin Briggs
Reprinted Strip reprints from 1939.

1 page Little Nature Stories text story "Billy Minx Outwits the Trapper"

Script Thornton W. Burgess
Letters typeset

Half page Henry story "wet paint"

Genre humor
Pencils ? (credited to Carl Anderson)

6 page Blondie story "Here are your slippers, Daddy."

Genre humor
Script Chic Young
Pencils Chic Young
Inks Chic Young
Reprinted strip reprints from 1939

1 page The Cartoon Page activity

1 page News in Sports! story "Thorpe/Grange/Nevers"

Genre biography
Pencils McKay (?)

4 page Bunky story "Madam- prepare yourself for a great shock..."

Genre humor
Script Billy DeBeck
Pencils Billy DeBeck
Inks Billy DeBeck
Reprinted strip reprints from 1939

4 page Barney Baxter story "Because I'm tellin' you it can't carry enough fuel!"

Genre adventure; aviation
Script Frank Miller
Pencils Frank Miller
Inks Frank Miller
Reprinted strip reprints from 1939

2 page Romance of Flying, The story "First Non-Stop Flight Across U.S.A."

Genre history
Script Clayton Knight
Pencils Clayton Knight
Inks Clayton Knight

4 page Dingle-Hoofer Und His Dog story

Genre humor
Script H.H. Knerr
Pencils H.H. Knerr
Inks H.H. Knerr
Reprinted gag strips from 1939