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Issue Details

Issue #67
Published December 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing ?
Notes Indexing info based on scans produced by Henry Peters. Also includes various ads on inside back cover and back cover.

Cover Details - "Merry Christmas"

Characters Dick Tracy; Little Orphan Annie; Moon Mullins; Kayo; Smitty; Tiny Tim (vignette); Winnie Winkle (vignette); Harold Teen; Little Joe
Genre humor

1 page You're in the Army Now story "untitled"

Genre humor
Script Herc Ficklen
Pencils Herc Ficklen
Inks Herc Ficklen
Letters Herc Ficklen
Notes Four single panel gag comics, printed on inside front cover.
Reprinted From newspapers, dated and copyrighted as (clockwise from top left): 1-24-1941, undated, 9-10-1941, 6-20-1941.

8 page Dick Tracy story "They stood here and fired right through the glass."

Characters Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Mary X [Leota Sunny]; Rudy Seaton; Chief Brandon; Junky Doolb; Jerome Trohs; Mamma
Synopsis The evidence points to Rudy Seaton as the killer of Fred Mason. Tracy has Seaton arrested, then uses Leota Sunny (Mary X with her memory restored) to set a trap for the real killer. The kill, Junky Doolb, is taken to jail, where he is slipped a gun by the St. Bernard dog of a midget lawyer, Jerome Trohs. In the jailbreak, the lawyer escapes by riding on the large dog, while Doolb is killed. Trohs takes over Doolb's gang with the aid of his wife, Mamma, a huge woman.
Genre detective; crime
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Letters Chester Gould
Notes "Trohs" is "short" spelled backwards.
Reprinted from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1940?; in Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #56

1 page Little Joe story "untitled"

Genre western
Script Edwin Leffingwell
Pencils Edwin Leffingwell
Inks Edwin Leffingwell
Letters Edwin Leffingwell
Notes Signed "Leffingwell, 7-14-40" in last panel.
Reprinted From newspaper strip dated 7-14-1940.

4 page Brenda Starr - Reporter story "untitled"

Genre adventure
Script Dale Messick
Pencils Dale Messick
Inks Dale Messick
Letters Dale Messick
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

6 page 'Cloudy' Williams story "'Cloudy' Williams Gets His Twenty-First Plane"

Genre aviator
Pencils Bob Jenney
Inks Bob Jenney
Letters Bob Jenney?
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

4 page Winnie Winkle story "untitled"

Genre romance; humor
Script Martin Branner
Pencils Martin Branner
Inks Martin Branner
Letters Martin Branner
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

4 page Moon Mullins story "untitled"

Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Letters Frank Willard
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

4 page Smitty story "untitled"

Genre humor
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Letters Walter Berndt
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

2 page Our Neighbors the Ripples story "untitled"

Genre humor
Script George Clark
Pencils George Clark
Inks George Clark
Letters George Clark
Notes Appears to be 2 separate strips.
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strips.

4 page Harold Teen story "untitled"

Genre teen; humor
Script Carl Ed
Pencils Carl Ed
Inks Carl Ed
Letters Carl Ed
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

4 page Tiny Tim story "untitled"

Genre children; fantasy
Script Stanley Link
Pencils Stanley Link
Inks Stanley Link
Letters Stanley Link
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

1 page text story "The Pilot of the Purple Twilight"

Genre aviator
Script R. S. Callender
Letters typeset
Notes Copyright 1943 by R. S. Callender. Story prefaced by 4 line poetry quote by Lord Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 1842. Story title taken from the quoted poem.

4 page Clyde Beatty story

Genre adventure
Pencils Jim Chambers
Inks Jim Chambers
Letters Jim Chambers
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

1 page Sweeney & Son story

Genre Gag
Script Pasen
Pencils Pasen
Inks Pasen
Letters Pasen
Reprinted From unknown newspaper strip.

8 page Little Orphan Annie story

Genre adventure
Script Harold Gray
Pencils Harold Gray
Inks Harold Gray
Letters Harold Gray
Reprinted From newspaper strip dated 4-23-1940.

1 page New Progressive Chest Pull & Bar Bell Combination advertisement