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Issue Details

Issue #56
Published June 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jack Byrne (Mgr. Editor); Joseph V. Daffron (Editor); S.M. Iger (Art Director)
Notes Several guesses have been made as to the identity of the cover artists. The current educated best guess of HS/HW/JV is that Joe Doolin did the background scene and Jack Kamen (or another Iger Shop artist) drew the Tiger Girl figure which was finished by an unknown Iger Shop inker.

Cover Details

Characters Tiger Girl
Genre jungle
Pencils Joe Doolin; Jack Kamen? [on Tiger Girl]
Inks Joe Doolin; (Iger Shop) on Tiger Girl
Notes Several guesses have been made as to the identity of the cover artists. The current educated best guess of HS/HW/JV is that Joe Doolin did the background scene and Jack Kamen (or another Iger Shop artist) drew the Tiger Girl figure which was finished by an unknown Iger Shop inker.
Reprinted in Jungle Girls (AC, 1989 series) #7 (1992)

10 page Tiger Girl story "The Nasali tribe's great god-man had risen from..."

Characters Tiger Girl
Genre jungle
Script ? [as Allan O'Hara]
Pencils John Forte?; Jack Kamen?
Inks Jay Disbrow?; ? (Iger Shop)

8 page Risks, Unlimited starring Rip Carson story "Through cloud-masked China skies droned Rip's battered..."

Characters Rip Carson
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Rollin W. Bell]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks Ed Waldman?; (Iger Shop)

6 page Kayo Kirby story "Hey, wait! It's supposed to be Wheato that's..."

Characters Kayo Kirby
Genre sports
Script ? [as Chuck Walker]
Pencils Matt Baker?; Jack Kamen?; [shop]
Inks Al Feldstein?; [shop]

4 page George Forsyth text article "World Adventurers - George Forsyth"

Genre true
Letters Typeset

6 page Hooks Devlin story "I resisted! But Peaches insisted! The wind-up was..."

Characters Hooks Devlin
Genre crime
Script ? [as John Campbell]
Pencils John Forte?; ? (Iger Shop)
Inks David Heames; [shop]
Notes David Heames sneaks his initials on the getaway car's license plate on page two.

6 page Captain Fight story "Sorcery! The black arts! The dead to life!"

Characters Captain Fight
Genre period
Script ? [as Stuart Drake]
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen?; [shop]

8 page Senorita Rio story "Frantically, Senorita Rio tried to piece together the incoherent..."

Characters Senorita Rio
Genre spy
Script ? [as Morgan Hawkins]
Pencils ? (Iger Shop)
Inks Jack Kamen?; Al Feldstein?; [shop]
Notes It seems that this is the initial Iger effort on Senorita Rita and the anonymous penciler (slight chance it might be Maurice Whitman) has done his/her best to imitate the style of Bob Lubbers - who hadn't drawn the strip for nearly two years.