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Issue Details

Issue #v3 #9
Published October 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Ed Cronin
Notes #32

Cover Details

Pencils Fred Kida
Inks Fred Kida
Notes #32

13 page Airboy story "Gil Parker, Phony Ace"

4 page Skinny McGinty story "Advice For Sale"

Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta

8 page Heap story "Enter: Rickie Wood"

Characters The Heap; Rickie Wood (first appearance); Von Emmelman (flashback)
Synopsis The Heap's origin is briefly retold and he meets Rickie Wood for the first time.
Script Bill Woolfolk?
Pencils Carmine Infantino?
Inks Carmine Infantino?
Colors Bill Woolfolk?
Notes 1st Heap story; 5th app. of Heap; Heap origin briefly retold; 1st app. of Rickie Wood
Reprinted in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #7 (1998) [reprint title: "[Our strange tale here begins during World War I...]", in black and white]

2 page text story "Sealed In Lead"

Script Jack M. Greene
Colors Jack M. Greene
Letters Typeset

1 page Little Leo story

Genre humor
Script Roy Houlihan
Pencils Roy Houlihan
Inks Roy Houlihan
Colors Roy Houlihan

8 page Flying Dutchman story "Attack of the Army Ants"

Notes Last Flying Dutchman story

1 page Windy and Tug story

Genre humor
Script Dick Hall
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Dick Hall
Colors Dick Hall

1 page Alfie and Ralphie story

Genre humor
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Colors Art Helfant

9 page Sky Wolf story The "Grandma" of Smuggling

Pencils Alden McWilliams
Inks Alden McWilliams

1 page Alfie and Ralphie story

Genre humor
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Colors Art Helfant