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Issue Details

Issue #30
Published November-December 1948
Cover Price $.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisenger (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Tex; Andre; Bob Feller
Genre adventure
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Steve Brodie (ghosting for Joe Simon)

10 page Boy Commandos story "The Miracle Pitcher"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Andre; Tex; Bob Feller; Chopper Miller
Synopsis Major league pitcher Bob Feller helps the Boy Commandos on the case, even if he doesn't play with the Dodgers.
Genre adventure
Script Don Cameron?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein?

1 page Willy filler

Genre children; humor
Script Phil Berube (signed)
Pencils Phil Berube (signed)
Inks Phil Berube (signed)

10 page Boy Commandos story "The Triumph of William Tell"

Characters Rip Carter (as William Tell); Brooklyn; Andre; Tex
Synopsis Brooklyn tests a supersonic plane and goes back in time to William Tell's day
Genre adventure
Pencils John Severin
Inks George Klein?
Notes credits from Craig Delich

1 page Jerry The Jitterbug filler

Genre teen; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff (signed)

2 page text article "The First Balloons"

Script R. H. Joseph
Letters typeset

Half page Daffy and Doodle filler

Genre humor
Script Lit-Win
Pencils Lit-Win
Inks Lit-Win

Half page Shorty filler

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

10 page Boy Commandos story "The Substitute Boy Commandos"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Andre; Tex; Oklahoma (intro); Bronx (intro);Marconi (intro); Silver Skull
Synopsis The Boys want to go on vacation and ask Rip to come up with substitutes to replace them.
Genre adventure
Script Writer A? (John Broome?)
Pencils Arthur Peddy?
Inks Gil Kane?
Notes credits from Craig Delich