Issue Details

Issue	#2
Published	July 1946
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	S. M. Iger (publisher); R. A. Roche (executive editor)

Cover Details

Characters	Captain Cutlass; The Gibbet
Genre	piracy
Pencils	Robert Webb?
Inks	Robert Webb?

7 page Captain Cutlass story "Porta Pala broods beneath a tropical sun..."

Characters	Captain Cutlass; The Gibbet
Genre	piracy
Script	? [as Jonathan Lee]
Pencils	Robert Webb?
Inks	Robert Webb?

4 page Tall Tales story "Ladies! As president of the Girl's Society of Culture..."

Characters	Colonel Whopper
Genre	humor
Script	Frank Little [as Watt A. Lyre]
Pencils	Frank Little [as Watt A. Lyre]
Inks	Frank Little [as Watt A. Lyre]

6 page Tugboat Tessie story "An old story and a sad one... that mortgage!"

Characters	Tugboat Tessie; Melody (her daughter); Bill Helm; Joe Floatsam; Wilbur Force Floatsam
Genre	adventure
Script	? [as Lee Stoken]
Pencils	Alex Blum
Inks	Alex Blum

7 page Harbor Patrol story "One bright, gay spring morning on a pier in New York City..."

Characters	Steve Badger; Squeaky; Cynthia Pope; False-Face McGill
Genre	crime
Script	Manning Stokes (credited) [as Manning]
Pencils	Bob Hebberd (signed) [as Hebberd]
Inks	Bob Hebberd (signed) [as Hebberd]

2 page text story "New Piers for Old"

Characters	Tugboat Tessie; Melody; Bill Jetty
Letters	typeset

2 page Crossbones Charlie story "Avast, Charles, there is the castle..."

Characters	Crossbones Charlie
Genre	humor; piracy
Script	Frank Little
Pencils	Frank Little
Inks	Frank Little

6 page The Ol' Skipper story "The plaintive purr of a little kitten nudges a memory..."

Characters	The Ol' Skipper
Genre	adventure
Script	Ruth Roche [as Rod Roche]
Pencils	Alex Blum
Inks	Alex Blum
Reprinted	in Pulp Fiction (A List Comics, 1997 series) #1 (in black and white)

1 page Salty Stuff filler "Look at the ship lights!"

Script	Robert Webb? [as Ol' Skipper Webb]
Pencils	Robert Webb?
Inks	Robert Webb?
Notes	Explanation of ship lights.

5 page Sagas of the Sea story "Surpassing all others in her day for size and luxury, the Titanic..."

Genre	fact
Pencils	Robert Webb?
Inks	Robert Webb?
Notes	Story of launch and demise of the ship Titanic.

8 page South Sea Girl story "What stranger place to have a wedding than in the musty corridors of Wandsworth Museum..."

Characters	Alani
Genre	adventure
Pencils	Matt Baker (signed)
Inks	Matt Baker
Reprinted	in Voodoo (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 series) # 2, with title "Horror in the Hills" and main character's name changed from Alani to El'nee.