Issue Details

Issue	#18
Published	January-February 1949
Cover Price	0.10 usd
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Mystery Man of Tombstone"

Genre	western
Pencils	Dick Sprang
Inks	Charles Paris

8 page story "The Mystery Man of Tombstone"

Characters	Billy Breckenridge; Johnny Ringo
Genre	western
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Dick Sprang
Inks	Charles Paris

4 page story "Noah's Ark in New York!"

Synopsis	story of the Bronx Zoo
Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Ed Smalle
Inks	Ed Smalle

3 page Test Your Wits story "Are You A Good Detective"

Genre

detective

2 page Bazooka, the Atom Bubble Boy advertisement "Bazooka, the Atom Bubble Boy Gets the Bird"

Pencils	Irwin Hasen
Inks	Irwin Hasen

3 page story "It Conquered the Stratosphere!"

Characters	Auguste Picard; Paul Kipfer
Synopsis	first men to fly a balloon into the stratosphere
Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer
Pencils	Howard Sherman ?

1 page Sam Spade; Wildroot Creme Oil advertisement "The Man with the Purple Hand"

Characters	Sam Spade; Effie
Genre	detective
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Don Komisarow ?

2 page Junior Journal filler

Characters	Joe Franklig; Joe Steryly; Jean Adams; Frances Utay; Leon Quezeda; Edna Boyd
Genre	fact
Script	Stookie Allen (signed)
Pencils	Stookie Allen (signed)
Inks	Stookie Allen (signed)

Half page Facts filler

Genre	fact
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

4 page Famous Disasters story "Peril at Paricutin"

Synopsis	A volcano in Mexico erupts
Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer

3 page Jim Thorpe story "The Greatest Athlete of All Time"

Characters	Jim Thorpe
Genre	sports; bio
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer

2 page Know Your Country text article "The Story of Old Ironsides"

Genre	fact
Pencils	Raymond Perry ?
Inks	Raymond Perry ?
Letters	typeset

1 page Men of Daring story "Detective Kane"

Characters	Charles F. Kane
Genre	fact
Script	Stookie Allen (signed)
Pencils	Stookie Allen (signed)
Inks	Stookie Allen (signed)

6 page story "The King of Inventors"

Characters	John Hays Hammond Jr.
Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff; Mort Weisinger; Bernie Breslauer

Half page Facts filler

Genre	fact
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff