Jack in the Box (1946) comic books 1955 or before

Stories and art by Ken Battefield and Ellis Chambers. Numbering continues from Yellowjacket Comics (1944) #10 (also mentioned on the cover). An early comics anthology featuring superhero and children's stories. The character named Jack In The Box is a villain in this issue, in a comics retelling of The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Ellis Chambers. Danny King, the circus performer known as King of the Beasts, faces The Challenge of the African Ants, in his final appearance. The first Yellowjacket, the bee-controlling star of the series in its previous incarnation, seeks a missing submarine, in his final appearance. The Tin Soldier; Horace the Hippo; Yellowjacket: The Submarine That Vanished!; Anybody's Guess!; King of the Beasts; The Visitor; Jack Horner; The Shnook Goes to the Museum. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Hal Chambers, Joe Beck, and Al Camy. An early comics anthology featuring humor and funny-animal stories. Tubby Pig encounters a "black market" during rationing, an indicator of the WWII era, when this story was probably created. The Squat Car Squad meets Stupid Man, a superhero who wears a red union suit and an outfit much like Super Goof's. Cap'n Grim tells the boys the legend of the phantom ship the Southern Belle. Plus an article about inspiring people who faced physical disabilities that gives a window into the disability rights of its era. Another, stranger piece offers advice on "How to Make a Machine-Gun"! Anybody's Guess!; Tubby Pig; Joe Blow; Hurdling Handicaps; Sport Notes; Squat Car Squad; How to Make a Machine-Gun; Karat Kaye; Debunker; Cap'n Grim; Yellowjacket Bee Stings; 1/2 Chief Poke-in-Nose. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Armand Troncone, Lee Sherman, and Basil Wolverton. An early comics anthology featuring humor and funny-animal stories. Archie-like teen Breezy gets jealous when a teen movie star visits Flatsburgh and Ginger goes all girly over him. Jack-in-the-Box's fairy godmother promises to give him legs instead of a box. Plus Flap Flipflop the Flying Flash, an early story by the great Basil Wolverton. Magic Tricks; Breezy; Swain vs. Swoon; Jumping Jack; Jack in the Box; Jack in the Box Starts a Club; The Story of Sir Launcelot of the Lake; Facts and Superstitions!; Flap Flipflop the Flying Flash. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Sanders, Lee Sherman, and Harold De Lay. An early comics anthology featuring humor and funny-animal stories. Mechanic Buzzy the Mouse has a tough gangster cat for a customer. Breezy and Ginger fall for a salesman's pitch, and try a new hair formula that makes them both bald as eggs. The story of how the sheltered but pure-hearted Perceval became a knight of the Round Table. There's Time for Everything (How to Raise Money); Buzzy; Are There Sea Serpent Monsters??; Breezy: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow; Firemen of the Sea; The Story of Sir Perceval the Pure; Did You Know?; Unusual Animals; Yoshkee and Sniffer ; Daffy: Mad Artist. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Sanders, Lee Sherman, and Harold De Lay. An early comics anthology featuring humor and funny-animal stories. Archie-style teen comedy as Ginger feeds the rumor mill that her guy Breezy is an important political figure. A non-fiction story about the helicopter, then a very new means of transport. From the Arthurian legends, the spirit of Sir Gawain warns an aging King Arthur about Sir Mordred's deceptions. Daffy; Wild Prince; A Fable of Aesop: Mercury and the Woodsman; Breezy: Double Trouble; When the Girls Took Out the Boys; Here Comes the Helicopter; Sir Mordred's Treason and the Death of Arthur; Jack in the Box; Parachutes. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bob Sanders, Lee Sherman, and Harold De Lay. An early comics anthology featuring humor and funny-animal stories.While trying to save Ginger's mom, Breezy finds himself pursued by a cop who thinks he's a killer on the loose. An adaptation of George Eliot's classic novel Silas Marner in comics form. Likely inventory material, unused from earlier in the decade, includes true facts of science, and a War Bonds PSA from WWII. Debunker; Breezy: The Shnook; Silas Marner; Killer; How Blast Works; Anybody's Guess!; The Wheel of Life. Final issue under this title; the series continued as Cowboy Western Comics (1948) #17. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.