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Issue Details

Issue	#28
Published	July-August 1948
Cover Price	$0.10
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Mort Weisinger, (actual)
Notes	all art credits verified with Eddy Zeno's Curt Swan checklist in Comic Book Marketplace 57. Credits added by Bob Hughes 2/07

Cover Details - "Keeper of the Big Cage!"

Characters	Boy Commandos
Genre	adventure
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Steve Brodie?
Notes	all art credits verified with Eddy Zeno's Curt Swan checklist in Comic Book Marketplace 57. Credits added by Bob Hughes 2/07

12 page Boy Commandos, The story "The Zoo of the Future!"

Characters	Rip Carter; Dr.Zotyl; Brooklyn; Tex
Synopsis	Rip Carter dreams he and two of the boys are transported to the future to help gather animals for an Inter World Zoo.
Genre	war
Script	Don Cameron?
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	John Fischetti?

10 page Boy Commandos story "The Unluckiest Guy in the World!"

Characters	Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Mr. Peg; Tex; Andre; Crazy-Quilt (villain); Unique Jinx Club
Synopsis	Brooklyn breaks a mirror and the resultant bad luck puts him in line for the electric chair.
Genre	adventure

2 page Peg story "Jumpin' jive! Look at that handsome hunk of a man on our campus"

Characters	Peg; Betty
Genre	gag
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

2 page text article "The Long Road of Science"

Genre	fact
Letters	typeset

12 page Boy Commandos, The story "Keeper of the Big Cage!"

Characters	Brooklyn; Rip Carter; Tex; Andre; Warden Sharkey (dies); Milton Conway; Bull Cantrell
Synopsis	Rip is named temporary prison warden in order to straighten out the mess by the last warden who was murdered.
Genre	war
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Steve Brodie?

1 page Daffy & Doodle filler

Genre	gag
Script	Lit-Win
Pencils	Lit-Win
Inks	Lit-Win

1 page Jerry the Jitterbug story "Jerry, I'd like to ask a favor"

Genre	gag
Script	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff