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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published February 1938
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Ed Cronin?

Cover Details

Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner

4 page Joe Palooka story

Script Ham Fisher
Pencils Ham Fisher
Inks Ham Fisher
Notes strip reprints

1 page Screen Snapshots filler "Luise Rainer"

Pencils Bernard Baily

4 page Ned Brant story

Genre sports
Script Bob Zuppke
Pencils R. W. Depew
Inks R. W. Depew
Notes strip reprints

1 page Off the Record cartoon

Genre Gags
Script Ed Reed
Pencils Ed Reed
Inks Ed Reed

1 page Strange As It Seems filler

Pencils John Hix
Inks John Hix

4 page Lala Palooza story

Genre humor
Script Rube Goldberg
Pencils Rube Goldberg
Inks Rube Goldberg
Notes strip reprints

1 page They're Still Talking biography (nonfictional) "Glenn Cunningham"

1 page Off The Record cartoon

Pencils Ed Reed
Inks Ed Reed

2 page Big Top story "Episode 5"

Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan

1 page Strange As It Seems filler

Pencils John Hix
Inks John Hix

3 page The Bungle Family story "Part-Time Brothers"

Script H. J. Tuthill
Pencils H. J. Tuthill
Inks H. J. Tuthill
Notes strip reprints

1 page Puzzle Phun activity

7 page The Clock Strikes story "The Annual Meeting of The Gown and Gavel, a fraternity formed by a select few..."

Characters The Clock [Brian O'Brien]
Genre superhero
Script George Brenner
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner

2 page Pirates Ahoy! text story "The Pirate Hero of France"

Characters Jean Bart (French corsair)
Script Charles B. Driscoll
Letters typeset

4 page Jane Arden / Lena Pry story

Genre soap opera
Script Monte Barrett
Pencils Russell E. Ross
Inks Russell E. Ross
Notes strip reprints; 'Lena Pry' takes up the bottom-left quarter of each page; 'Jane Arden's Wardrobe' takes up the bottom-right corner

1 page Strange As It Seems filler

Pencils John Hix
Inks John Hix

1 page Off Side cartoon

Pencils Jo Metzer
Notes gags

2 page Slim and Tubby story "Episode 5"

Script John J. Welch
Pencils J. W. McGuire (signed)

4 page Dixie Dugan story

Script J. P. McEvoy
Pencils J. H. Striebel
Inks J. H. Striebel
Notes strip reprints

1 page They're Still Talking biography (nonfictional) "Frank Gotch"

1 page Off The Record cartoon

Pencils Ed Reed
Inks Ed Reed

4 page Hawks of the Seas story "The Hawk escapes from jail by a trick and returns to the governor's mansion."

Genre period
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner (as Willis Rensie)
Inks Will Eisner
Notes Reformatted from original form, which was published overseas, and reprinted -- re-translated into English -- in Will Eisner's Hawks of the Seas (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1986 series) #1

1 page Modern 'Planes filler "The Winner"

Pencils Lee Marshall

1 page Off The Record cartoon

Pencils Ed Reed
Inks Ed Reed

4 page Jim Swift story "Cast adrift by the hoodlums who have taken possession of the Coast Guard boat..."

Genre adventure
Script Ed Cronin
Pencils Ed Cronin
Inks Ed Cronin

1 page Toddy filler

Genre Gags
Script George Marcoux
Pencils George Marcoux
Inks George Marcoux
Notes This strip takes up two half-pages; the other half is Flossie (see next entry)

1 page Flossie filler

Genre Humor
Script Al Zere
Pencils Al Zere
Inks Al Zere
Notes this strip takes up the bottom half of 2 pages (see previous entry)

1 page Strange As It Seems filler

Pencils John Hix
Inks John Hix

4 page Mickey Finn story

Genre sitcom
Script Lank Leonard
Pencils Lank Leonard
Inks Lank Leonard
Notes strip reprints