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Issue Details

Issue	#117
Published	December-January 1950-51
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Julius Schwartz (actual)
Notes	indicia on my copy reads Strange Adventures #3!

Cover Details

Characters	Johnny Thunder
Genre	western; humor
Pencils	Alex Toth
Inks	Joe Giella
Notes	indicia on my copy reads Strange Adventures #3!

12 page Johnny Thunder story "Johnny Thunder vs. Black Lightnin'"

Characters	Johnny Thunder
Genre	western; humor
Script	Robert Kanigher
Pencils	Alex Toth
Inks	Joe Giella

8 page Overland Coach story "The Rustlers of Sagamore Bluff"

Genre	western
Pencils	Gil Kane?; Lee Elias
Inks	Joe Giella
Notes	Tom Orzechowski suggested "credited to Kane and Giella. I believe it was at least penciled by Lee Elias. I haven't seen enough of Elias' work from this time frame to hazard a guess about the inks. "I have a copy of Strange Adventures #7 (April '51... a few months later) and it features a story by Gil and John Guinta. The pencil work is tamer than what he was delivering within just a few years, but it was unmistakably Gil. The All-American Western story shows a lot of the square jaws and Caniff influence that were Elias' hallmarks for so many great years. I haven't seen any other "Overland Coach" stories, but it's possible that this was Elias' series.

8 page Minstrel Maverick story "Trail of the Silver Medal"

Pencils	Irwin Hasen
Inks	Bernard Sachs

8 page Foley of the Fighting Fifth story "Three Steps to Danger"

Script	David V. Reed
Pencils	Frank Giacoia
Inks	Frank Giacoia