Issue: #1
Published: August 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Editor taken from Feature Comics (Quality, 1939 series) #19 (same month).
Entire contents copyright 1939 by E. M. Arnold.
On sale date from the publication date and volume number found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 3. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 419723. Volume number is not listed in the indicia of this comic.
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| Comic Story (1 page) |
Escape from Devil's Island |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Apple of Invisibility |
| Synopsis: |
Gil O'Teen, has usurped the throne of Pyromania. He captures Archie and tortures him by witholding food but piping aromas towards him. Archie finds an apple in a laboratory and turns invisible when he bites into it. |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Characters: |
Archie O'Toole Gil O'Teen (villain) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Baseball Fixers |
| Synopsis: |
Clip accepts an invitation to visit the farm owned by his friend Bob. Two crooks are hiding out at the local hotel, and decide to fix the following day's baseball game for profit by kidnapping star player Bob. Clip tracks him down and releases him in time to play the game. |
| Genre: |
Drama Sports |
| Characters: |
Clip Chance His Mother Bob Brack Slick (Villain) Butch (Villain) |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
The Ghost Express |
| Synopsis: |
Cook and Kelly investigate a "ghost train" which appears directly in the path of passenger trains belonging to the Continental Railway Company. Cook works out that the headlight and whistle of the "ghost train" actually belong to an airplane being flown low over the tracks, and ambushes the pilot, who is in the pay of a rival railroad company. |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Captain Cook Kelly The "Ghost Engineer" (Intro, Villain) Donald Kelly |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Mystery at Catalina: Chapter 1 |
| Featuring: |
Tony Parelli |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (spot illustration) | Inks: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Tony Parelli Sun Wang |
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