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Issue Details

Issue	#42
Published	March 1950
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Leon Harvey

Cover Details - "Will Joe Lose the Championship?"

Characters	Joe Palooka
Genre	sports
Pencils	Ham Fisher (signed)
Inks	Ham Fisher (signed)

13 page Joe Palooka story "The Big Pinkney-Grimes Bout"

Characters	Joe Palooka
Genre	sports
Pencils	Ham Fisher
Inks	Ham Fisher

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Joe Palooka Text Page"

Characters	Joe Palooka
Synopsis	Factual newspaper reprint article, which recounts Joe Palooka being voted the 1950 award by the Christian Athletes Foundation.
Genre	fact
Pencils	Ham Fisher
Inks	Ham Fisher
Letters	?; some typeset
Reprinted	From ? newspaper article.

2 page Joe Palooka story "Jerry's Toubles] [Part 1"

Characters	Joe Palooka
Genre	sports
Pencils	Ham Fisher
Inks	Ham Fisher

5 page Joe Palooka story "Jerry's Troubles [Part 2]"

Characters	Joe Palooka
Genre	sports
Pencils	Ham Fisher
Inks	Ham Fisher

1 page Joe Palooka text article "Joe Palooka's Album"

Genre	fact
Letters	typeset

2 page Little Max story "Soap Gets in Your Eyes"

Characters	Little Max
Genre	humor

2 page Humphrey story "The Chump-ion"

Characters	Humphrey
Genre	humor

1 page Barbara Ann Scott text article "Queen of the Ice!"

Characters	Barbara Ann Scott
Genre	fact; sports
Letters	?; some typeset

1 page Sportales text article "untitled"

Genre	sports; fact
Letters	typeset

1 page biography (nonfictional) "Ring Champs of To-day"

Characters	Rocky Castellani; Bruce Woodcock
Synopsis	Short illustrated bios of two boxing champions of 1950.
Genre	sports; fact
Pencils	Bob Powell
Inks	Bob Powell