Digital Comic Museum - Target Comics v04 09 C2C


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January 1944; paper; my scan;
Missing pages 35-36, 43-44, 53-54, 61-62 (all ads). No art or text stories are affected (the pages had been physically removed from my paper copy).
Huge scans.

Correction: The book is complete, for some reason books around this time dealt with the paper rationing in this way.

Volume: #4, Issue: #9 [45]
Published: January 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 1.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	18 Men and a Boat
Genre:	War
Characters:	John Morrill Target (inset)

Letters Page (1 page)
Synopsis:	Editor's page with some reader's letters printed.
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (10 pages)	Bad Dream
Synopsis:	Kit and Dan, as they traipse through the woods, encounter a well-known writer and are invited to his cabin. While in the cabin, Dan trips over a bearskin rug, is knocked unconscious, and has a nightmare. The Cadet featuring Kit Carter
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Kit Carter Dan Merry Dick Mann

Comic Story (7 pages)	18 Men and a Boat, Part One
Synopsis:	John Morrill and his crew begin a harrowing journey on a 36-foot diesel boat from the Philippines to Australia after they are ordered to scuttle their mine sweeper.
Genre:	Biography War
Characters:	John Morrill [1st Appearance] Taylor Steele Meeker Richardson

Cartoon (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Black Market
Synopsis:	Bill returns home on special duty from the military to help break up a cattle rustling operation.
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Bill Black Market Gang Ike Mr. Hand Brad

Comic Story (6 pages)
Synopsis:	Charlie inadvertently stumbles across a missing heiress and helps free her from kidnappers.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Candid Charlie [Charles Click] (intro) Mrs. Click (Charlie's Mother) Miss Van Gilt Reggie Mr. Van Gilt Clarence Grey

Cartoon (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Tony

Text Story (2 pages)	River Rising
Synopsis:	Tommy, despite several obstacles, rescues his parents from a raging flood.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Tommy Burke Jake Ingle Mr. Burke Mrs. Burke

Text Article (1 page)
Featuring:	Adventures in Stamps
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Non-fiction
Characters:	Archer Harman

Comic Story (6 pages)	Lumberjack Adventure
Synopsis:	Dan'l and Dud take jobs as lumberjacks. They then try hard to win the bonus for cutting the most trees in a week; however, they fail to win and later discover that they were cheated.
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Dan'l Flannel Uncle Dud Gug Brickhead

Comic Story (7 pages)	On the Beam!
Synopsis:	Military Intelligence sends Niles to a local night club to see if he can garner information on suspicious-looking men that have regularly been hanging out there. He discovers that a comdeian's valet is linked with Nazi spies, and the Targeteers go to town on them, learning that the spies were using purported fan mail to relay U.S. naval secrets back to Germany.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Target [Niles Reed] The Targeteers [Dave Brown Tom Foster] Unnamed Army Intelligence Major Dan McCunn Steff (villain) Nazi Spies (villains)

Comic Story (8 pages)	Organizing the French Resistance
Synopsis:	French resistance fighters are captured by the Gestapo and the Chameleon embarks upon a daring plan to free the arrested resistance fighters.
Genre:	War
Characters:	Pete Stockbridge (the Chameleon) Karl Hans The Gestapo Chief Ratter Frank Jon

Cartoon (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Hennessy

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