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Sparkler Comics (1941 2nd Series) comic books 1947

  • Issue #66
    Sparkler Comics (1941 2nd Series) 66

    Stories and art by Burne Hogarth, Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Sparling, Charlie Plumb, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd, Rudolph Dirks, J. P. Williams, Arnie Mossler and Raeburn Van Buren. United's anthology featured reprints of early comic strips, including Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Nancy. Tarzan has a plan to free Don Macabre's captive workers from the tunnel. Burke finds the greatest baseball player ever in a remote Central American country, and sets out to bring him back to the US. Sparkling Stars of the Air (radio, that is) focuses on the King Cole Trio, the early group featuring Nat King Cole. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp and the Ripley-like Strange as It Seems. Li'l Abner; Hap Hopper; Nancy; Captain and the Kids; Tarzan; Sparkler Salutes; Ella Cinders; Sparkling Stars of the Air; Bill Bumlin; Back Home Again; Strange as It Seems; Abbie an Slats; El Bombo. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.