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Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 36

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    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) 36
    Four Color (1942-1962 Dell 2nd Series) #36
    Published 1944 by Dell.

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    Indicia title is "SMILIN' JACK, No. 36." Several untitled Smilin' Jack strips. Just when Jack is set to marry Mary, his former fiancee Dixie Lee returns, now widowed and blind. Mary and Jack fly Dixie to a specialist to check her eyes; On the way Dixie leaves the plane, not wanting to come between Jack and Mary. While saving Dixie and Mary in the wind tunnel, Jack's legs are badly burned by a steam pipe. While he's recuperating in the hospital, his roommate is Downwind, who was roughed up by all the girls he was stringing along. Jack opens his pilot training classes for college students, one of whom is afraid of planes. Madam Mongoose gathers a group who all have had trouble with the law. Madam Mongoose and Longdrink sabotage Jack's plane before he demonstrates some maneuvers for his class. Reprinted from Smilin' Jack (News Syndicate Co.) newspaper strips from 1938-1940, and from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #91 (September 1943). 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.