Rocket Kelly (1944) comic books

Art by Arnold Hicks and others. Cover by E. C. Stoner. Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. Kelly is called in when unexplained forces cause ocean levels to rise around the world; Educational comics about clouds and air pressure; A mysterious galactic elder appoints Kelly the Keeper of the Flame of Democracy, the mystic energy felt by all the free people of the universe. Doors of Death; Flame of Space; Up in the Clouds; Air Pressure Quiz; Diablo's Dark Secret; For Victory. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Ted Small, Betty Burrows, Jami Wade and Al Jones. Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. Kelly's old foe Nihil seizes control of Kelly's rocket ship and cache of experimental weapons; A giant snake is used for murder by a villain with his own crocodile pit; Illuso, who looks like Mandrake the Magician in a turban, investigates the disappearance of a little girl's father. When Mountains Trembled; The Search For Tom Jones; Men Can Fly ... A Dream That Came True; The Vengeance of Vengo; Forty-Five Feet of Murder; The Murder of Stanton Lamont. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Len Short, Alec Hope and Tom Frost. Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. Kelly's old foe Professor Venom threatens Earth with literal Trojan Horses from space; Professor Mogul threatens Earth with an army of robots, in a story featuring an image of Earth from space with latitude and longitude lines visible; Percy rents a house and tries to play cards with ghosts who are afraid of him. Horses of Doom; The Mars Mystery; The Fizz That Fizzled; Imagine That; The Snowball; The Eerie Plot; Hand of Fate; Percy. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. The Sky People of a lost city in the Andes threaten the Earth with their giant insects and death rays; The true story of Balto, the sled dog who helped battle a diphtheria epidemic in 1925 Alaska; A trip to Egypt leads to mummies, holograms, death traps and an attack by the Sphinx itself. Adventure of the Lost Sky-World; Canine Cavalcade; Mystery of the Lost Expedition; The Talking Sphinx; Saga of the Silver Saddle. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. Insane weatherman Mr. Weather creates strange weather patterns that threaten human civilization; A mad scientist's plot sends Kelly and his crew on a desperate global scavenger hunt; The Minstrel of Death threatens Earth with his Dance of Death and his army of living musical instruments, but tone-deaf pilot Punchy proves immune to his powers. Mister Weather's Revenge; While the World Watches; Minit Mysteries; The Little People; The Dance of Death; Joy Family; Ernie. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by F. O. Alexander, Al Dunn and A. E. Hayward. Hotshot WWII fighter pilot Patrick Kelly gets transported to the future, where he explores the galaxy and becomes a hotshot rocket pilot. Descendants of Genghis Khan live in a subterranean city in Southeast Asia and mount raids on surface communities; The Sea Scoundrel traps Kelly and his crew in a subterranean world of strange and dangerous creatures; Reprints of various humor strips, including Hairbreadth Harry and The Back-Seat Driver, as the series transitions to a humor title. Death Beneath the Burma Jungle; Hairbreadth Harry; High-End Homer; Tommy Tot: Geography Goes Ga-Ga; Somebody's Stenog; The Back-Seat Driver; Kit of the Canyon; Duel Under the Sea. Final issue under this title; numbering continues with Lil Pan (1946) #6. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.