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Issue Details

Issue #46
Published August 1946
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Will Lieberson

Cover Details

Characters Mary Marvel; Commando Yank; Phantom Eagle; Mr. Scarlet & Pinky.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Binder
Inks Jack Binder

1 page Contents page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword

Genre information
Pencils Jack Binder
Inks Jack Binder

8 page Mary Marvel story "Idea Pills"

Characters Mary Marvel [Mary Bromfield]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Binder
Inks Jack Binder

1 page Muscle Hedd filler "Is Below Par"

Characters Muscle Hedd
Genre gag
Script David Pascal
Pencils David Pascal
Inks David Pascal

6 page Mr. Scarlet and Pinky story "Portrait of Death"

Characters Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler]; Pinky; V: Henry Miller; Harvey Thomas.
Synopsis The murder of famous artist Jonas Smythe and several others from suffocation in their studios leads Scarlet and Pinky to track down their killer: a man expelled from the Academy of Art 12 years earlier for selling fake paintings of the masters.
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-20-08.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery (AC, 1999 series) #67

Half page Witless Witmore filler "The Book Worm"

Characters Witless Witmore
Genre gag

Half page Sam the Sheriff filler "Permits Himself To Be Taken For a Chase"

Characters Sam
Genre gag
Script Al Liederman
Pencils Al Liederman
Inks Al Liederman

1 page Boy Scout Bob filler "Knows His Way"

Characters Bob
Genre gag

6 page Mr. Scarlet and Pinky story "The Mustering-Out Menace"

Characters Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler]; Pinky; V: Porky Pigge (I).
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jack Binder
Inks Jack Binder
Notes Story title taken from contents page.

1 page Whipper-Snappers filler "Music"

Genre gag

Half page Witless Witmore filler "Don't You A-Door Him?"

Characters Witless Witmore
Genre gag

Half page Horace Hotstuff filler "Will Get a Kick Out of This"

Characters Horace Hotstuff
Genre gag

2 page Penny Graves text story "Intrigue In Hawaii"

Characters Penny Graves
Genre mystery
Script Joseph Millard (John Messmann)(signed)
Letters typeset

Half page Muscle Hedd filler "Back He Goes"

Characters Muscle Hedd
Genre gag
Script David Pascal
Pencils David Pascal
Inks David Pascal

Half page Boy Scout Bob filler "Sticks To It"

Characters Bob
Genre gag

1 page Dippy Detours filler "Crooks"

Genre gag

6 page Phantom Eagle story "The Jesse James of the Air"

Characters Phantom Eagle; V: The Rocket (I & D).
Genre aviation
Script Marc Swayze?
Pencils Marc Swayze
Inks Marc Swayze

1 page Whipper-Snappers filler "Boarding Houses"

Genre gag

1 page Muscle Hedd filler "A Weak Fish"

Characters Muscle Hedd
Genre gag
Script David Pascal
Pencils David Pascal
Inks David Pascal

6 page Commando Yank story "The Die Is Cast"

Characters Commando Yank [Chase Yale].
Synopsis The Yank becomes involves with an inventor and his daughter, trying to protect the invention from a carry-over group of Nazis bent on securing it to help them take over the world.
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer
Notes Art credits revised by Craig Delich (June 30, 2007). Credits formerly listed as Harry Fisk?
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #65