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Issue Details

Issue V4#3
Published September-October 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes The cover reports that each super star tells his own personal success story. So I am listing them as contributing writers on the stories.

Cover Details - "1947 Super Stars"

Genre Sport; fact
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell?

6 page Glenn Dobbs story "All-American All-American Glenn Dobbs of the Brooklyn Dodgers"

Genre sport; fact
Script ?; Glenn Dobbs

6 page Joe Fulks story "The Amazing Joe Fulks Basketball's Wonder Man"

Genre Sport; fact
Script Al Klein?; Joe Fulks
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell?

6 page Cornelius Warmerdam story "He Flies Through the Air Pole Vault Champion Cornelius Warmerdam"

Genre Sport; fact
Script Al Klein?; Cornelius Warmardam
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell?
Notes Listed as an Al Klein True Sport Interview so I am listing him as writer.

5 page Gil Dodds track star story "The Flying Parson Gil Dodds"

Synopsis Gil Dodds was a world record runner who became a minister.
Genre Sport; fact
Script ?; Gil Dodds
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell?

3 page Dan J. Ferris text story "Uncle Dan Speaks"

Synopsis A true sport editorial on the secretary/treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Union Daniel J. Ferris.
Genre Sport; fact
Script William J. DeGrouchy
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell?

5 page Johnny Hayes story "Super Stars Johnny Hayes"

Synopsis Johnny Hayas was a marathon runner.
Genre Sport; fact
Script ?; Johnny Hayes
Pencils Clem Boddington
Notes Clem Boddington's art looks a lot like some of the underground artists of the sixties and seventies.

1 page A True Sport Baseball Quiz activity "How Long Does It Take?"

Genre Sport; fact

5 page Packey O'Gatty story "You Too Can Box"

Genre Sport; fact
Script Packey O'Gatty
Pencils Clem Boddington

8 page Jimmy Wilde story "Jimmy Wilde Flyweight Dynamite"

Genre Sport; fact
Script Ray Evans?; Jimmy Wilde
Pencils Ray Evans

2 page an (un) true sport short story "The Million - Dollar Dream"

Genre sport; humor

1 page Aviation and Birds filler "untitled"

Genre fact

1 page Fisk Bike Tires advertisement "In the Shadow of the Thunderbird"

Synopsis Illustrated advertisement.
Pencils Al Plastino (signed)
Inks Al Plastino