Issue: #44
Published: March 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing: Vin Sullivan
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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.
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| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
10 Power Telescope |
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Script: ? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Little Max, Stowaway |
| Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
| Synopsis: |
Little Max stows away aboard a military vessel when he feels that Alice has forsaken him. |
| Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Alice Little Max Uncle George Sis |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
| Synopsis: |
Joe and Jerry play football against a rival army outfit. |
| Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
| Genre: |
Humor War |
| Characters: |
Joe Palooka Jerry Leemy |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
| Synopsis: |
Knobby learns that he missed seeing Joe Palooka on a newsreel because he was sleeping during the movie. Excited to see Joe on screen, Knobby purchases another ticket for the film that he just slept through. |
| Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Knobby Walsh Stella Fanny Horace |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
| Synopsis: |
Knobby passes along some "insider" horse racing information which is intercepted and misinterpreted by German intelligence. |
| Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
| Genre: |
Humor War |
| Characters: |
Knobby Walsh |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Joe Palooka |
| Synopsis: |
Jerry gets sunstroke taking a walk in the desert. |
| Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
| Genre: |
Humor War |
| Characters: |
Joe Palooka Jerry Leemy |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
All in a Lifetime |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Beck | Pencils: Frank Beck | Inks: Frank Beck |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Squinty |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Bender Pass Mission |
| Featuring: |
Sparky Watts |
| Synopsis: |
Sparky is ordered to retrieve emissaries on a train and bring them to a secret military conference. |
| Credits: |
Script: Thomas De Angelo | Pencils: Thomas DeAngelo | Inks: Thomas DeAngelo |
| Genre: |
Humor Satire-parody Superhero War |
| Characters: |
Sparky Watts Gen. J. Smyth Smithers |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
The Synthetic Rubber Formula, Part 5 |
| Featuring: |
Captain Yank |
| Synopsis: |
Capt. Yank and Dr. Lin learn that the Japanese are engaging in germ warfare. |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Tinsley | Pencils: Frank Tinsley | Inks: Frank Tinsley |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Capt. Yank Wing Dr. Lin Kawi |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
New Dog across the Street |
| Featuring: |
Bo |
| Synopsis: |
A new family, along with their dog, moves into the house across the street and Bo is a bit jealous of the new dog. |
| Credits: |
Script: Frank Beck | Pencils: Frank Beck | Inks: Frank Beck |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Bo (a Dog) Junior |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Zara's Spy Ring, Part 1 |
| Featuring: |
Charlie Chan |
| Synopsis: |
While Charlie and company are hunting for spies in Washington, they leave Gina alone and she is kidnapped by Zara. |
| Credits: |
Script: Alfred Andriola | Pencils: Alfred Andriola (signed) | Inks: Alfred Andriola (signed) |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Sparks Charlie Chan Gina Kirk Zara |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
His Wife's In Pictures! |
| Featuring: |
Hollywood Husband |
| Credits: |
Script: Jeff MacHamer | Pencils: Jeff MacHamer (signed) | Inks: Jeff MacHamer |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Laurie Ann Otho Elsie Greddy Laloy |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Return to Mindanao |
| Synopsis: |
An American aviator is shot down and rescued by guerilla fighters in the Philippines. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Lt. Billy Rankin Gen. Jim Flynn Tarhatu |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Redwood Forest, Part 6 |
| Featuring: |
Dixie Dugan |
| Synopsis: |
Dixie and gang, with the help of the U.S. Army, hunt for the saboteur, Rellini, in the woods. |
| Credits: |
Script: J. P. McEvoy | Pencils: John Striebel | Inks: John Striebel |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Dixie Dugan Mickey Bud Hale Mr. Wood Mr. Wolfe Rellini |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Gremlin |
| Featuring: |
Skyman |
| Synopsis: |
Skyman selects the infamous mechanic, Gremlin, to help repair his plane, and ends up having to overcome the incompetence of his own mechanic while fighting off the Japanese. |
| Credits: |
Script: Gardner Fox | Pencils: Ogden Whitney (signed) | Inks: Ogden Whitney |
| Genre: |
Humor War |
| Characters: |
Skyman Gremlin Corporal Peterson Capt. Thompson |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Letters: ?; typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Swiss Weather House |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Letters: ?; typeset |
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