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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published July-August 1947
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth; Bernard Breslauer ?
Notes book contains ad for ACG's "The Kilroys"

Cover Details

Characters Penniless Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils Stan Kaye?
Inks Stan Kaye?
Notes book contains ad for ACG's "The Kilroys"

6 page Penniless Palmer story "His Nibs, King Neptune"

Characters Penniless Palmer
Synopsis Penniless is hired by Mr Fish to find Mr Finn and King Neptune gets in his way. A definite fish story
Genre humor
Pencils Thuston Harper
Inks Thuston Harper

6 page Hamilton and Egbert story

Characters Hamilton and Egbert
Synopsis They invent a bank robbery protection device
Genre humor

5 page Silly Willie story

Characters Willie Nilly
Synopsis A totem makes Willie a ventriloquist/ told in rhyme is the usual twist
Genre humor
Script Tom McNamara
Pencils Tom McNamara (signed)
Inks Tom McNamara

5 page Two-Gun Percy story "Wild and Wooly Razz-Matazz"

Characters Two-Gun Percy
Synopsis Deadwood Dan schemes up a way to rob the stage at Messy Mesa
Genre humor
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

Half page Jerry the Jitterbug filler

Synopsis A new girl is trying to get a date
Genre humor
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Letters credit from Tom Orzechowski.

1 page Mister Grumble filler

Synopsis needs to find a roadsign at night
Genre humor
Script Phil Berube
Pencils Phil Berube (signed)
Inks Phil Berube

2 page text story "Smooth Worker"

Genre humor
Script Tom Neil [pseud?]
Letters typeset

6 page Cave-Man Curly story "Fracas in Fruit"

Characters Cave-Man Curly
Synopsis After dumping the stew on his mother in law's head Curly is hungry as they do some inventing
Genre humor
Script Joseph Sulman
Pencils Joseph Sulman
Inks Joseph Sulman

Half page Scuffy the Tramp filler

Synopsis At one time he almost settled down when he was younger
Genre humor
Pencils Lit-Win (signed)
Inks Lit-Win

5 page Tinkerman Tad story "Barnstormer"

Characters Tinkerman Tad
Synopsis Tad fixes up a weathervane and messes everything else up as usual
Genre humor
Pencils Thurston Harper (signed)
Inks Thurston Harper

4 page Dover and Clover story "Who's Afraid ot the Big Bad Blacksmith?"

Characters Dover and Clover
Synopsis The blacksmith is going to "forge a check" for Farmer Jones, a gate-check that is.
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff