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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published May-June 1948
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes All information for this issue is from David Postle, 1/18/2007. Art credits for Swan stories from Eddy Zeno's Swan Index in Comic Book Marketplace 57.

Cover Details - "The Crimes of Diamond-hand"

Characters Boy Commandos
Genre Adventure
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Steve Brodie
Notes All information for this issue is from David Postle, 1/18/2007. Art credits for Swan stories from Eddy Zeno's Swan Index in Comic Book Marketplace 57.

12 page Boy Commandos story "The Ape That Plotted Crimes"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Tex; Andre; Farnby; Big Chan
Synopsis After Carter and the boys capture a rare Gorilla for Farnsby's Circus the gorilla appears to have human intelligence and write long messages on a blackboard, including the plots for crimes.
Genre Adventure
Script Don Cameron?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Steve Brodie
Notes Art credits by Eddy Zeno. Writer credit by Bob Hughes. 2/07. Is this DC's first intelligent Gorilla story?

13 page Boy Commandos story "The Crimes of Diamond Hand"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Tex; Andre; Diamond Hand; Dr. Maret
Genre Adventure
Script Don Cameron?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Steve Brodie
Notes Writer id by Bob Hughes 2/07. Art credits from Eddy Zeno's Swan index in Comic Book Marketplace 57.

2 page text story "Sea Voyage"

Script Thomas Graw
Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset

10 page Boy Commandos story "The Case of the Killer Cadet"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Andre; Tex; Midget; Bullethead
Synopsis Rip sends Brooklyn to military school after he fails to obey orders and almost gets the boys killed.
Genre Adventure
Script Don Cameron?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Steve Brodie
Notes art credits from Eddy Zeno's Swan index in Comic Book Marketplace 57. Writer credit from Bob Hughes 2/07

1 page Shorty filler "Is this where you wanted to go?"

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff