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Issue Details

Issue #65
Published December 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jack Byrne (Mgr. Editor); Joseph V. Daffron (Editor); S.M. Iger (Art Director)

Cover Details - "Beware the Congo Cobra"

Characters Tiger Girl [Princess Vishnu]
Genre jungle
Pencils Edmund Good?
Inks ? (Iger Shop)

10 page Tiger Girl story Beware the Congo Cobra ["Locked in the green fastnesses of the mysterious..."]

Characters Tiger Girl [Princess Vishnu]; Chief Nogo (intro); VILLAINS: Ramon (intro); Dirk (intro); Leopard Men (intro)
Genre jungle
Script ? [as Allan O'Hara]
Pencils Robert Webb?; John Forte?
Inks Ray Osrin? (Iger Shop)
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

6 page Captain Fight story "Before a spanking wind, the Sea Scourge forged..."

Characters Captain Fight; Joshua Twining (intro); VILLAINS: Captain Cannon (intro); Bess (intro)
Genre period
Script ? [as Stuart Drake]
Pencils Edmund Good?; Jack Kamen?
Inks Jay Disbrow?; ? (Iger Shop)

8 page Rip Carson of Risks Unlimited story "Operation Waif, the tabloids tagged it...and throughout America..."

Characters Rip Carson; Mei Wing (intro); Chuck Wilson (intro); VILLAIN: Ling Shen (intro)
Genre adventure
Script ? [as Rollin W. Bell]
Pencils Edmund Good?; ? (Iger Shop)
Inks Ray Osrin?; ? (Iger Shop)

6 page Hooks Devlin story "Crime takes no holidays. Neither does the bill..."

Characters Hooks Devlin; Cynthia Snark (intro); VILLAINS: Spike (intro); Sylvester (intro)
Genre crime
Script ? [as John Campbell]
Pencils John Forte?; ? (Iger Shop)
Inks Al Feldstein?; [shop]

2 page text story "The Epic of the Revenge: Part 1"

Script ? [as Allan O'Hara]
Letters typeset

6 page Kayo Kirby story "Activity at Grogan's gym had fallen into a dull..."

Characters Kayo Kirby; VILLAINS: Syd (intro); Lil (intro)
Genre sports
Script ? [as Chuck Walker]
Pencils David Heames? (Iger Shop)
Inks Ray Osrin? (Iger Shop)

8 page Senorita Rio story "The Affair of the Liquid Gold"

Characters Senorita Rio [Consuela Maria Ascencion De Las Vegas]; Senor Quala (intro); VILLAIN: Joe Gaddis (intro); Pepe Ladrao (intro)
Genre Spy
Script ? [as Morgan Hawkins]
Letters Abe Kanegson?
Notes Drawn in a quasi-Eisner-SPIRIT style. This has traditionally been attributed to Jerry Grandenetti, but it simply doesn't conform to what we know of his style - either pencils or inks. Possibly another foreign artist?