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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.