Issue | #1 |
Published | Spring 1947 |
Cover Price | 0.10 |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Ivan Klapper? |
Genre | crime |
Pencils | Ken Bachelor (signed) |
Inks | Ken Bachelor (signed) |
Characters | Van Manhattan (I); Miss Gale; Coombs; Miss Ellen; Johnny Dukes (villain, D). |
Synopsis | The fact that Van's evidence put away Public Enemy #1, Johnny Dukes, is of little avail when Dukes escapes from prison and hijacks an airplane that Manhattan is on heading for Seattle. |
Genre | crime |
Script | Gardner F. Fox? |
Pencils | Howard Purcell (signed as HP on airplane fusilage) |
Inks | Howard Purcell (signed as HP on airplane fusilage) |
Notes | Art revision from Lee Bachelor? to Purcell, other info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-16-09. |
Characters | Igor the Archer (I); Count Rostov; Czar (villain). |
Synopsis | Igor is captured by the evil tyrant Czar, who condemns him to the scaffold. |
Genre | period |
Script | Gardner F. Fox |
Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff |
Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
Notes | Art revision from Kurt Schaffenberger to Moldoff, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-16-09. |
Characters | Juan Meatbal (I). |
Synopsis | When the inhabitants of Sawtuva-Boorda in Mexico learn that there are no fish available for their big Feast of the Fish, Juan steps up and makes a secret pact with a visiting pelican which allows the feast to go on as scheduled. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Gardner F. Fox? |
Pencils | Lee Ames |
Inks | Burt Frohmen |
Notes | Synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-16-09. |
Genre | adventure |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Madelon Durand (I); The Great Durand (her father, D); Mr. Benet; Bobo King of the Apaches (D); von Schlager (villain). |
Synopsis | After seeing her father gunned down by the Gestapo, Madelon takes her father's place in the French Underground to battle against the Nazi tyranny. But when the war ends, she decides to use her talents as a photographer and runs down a wanted Nazi felon from the war era. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Gardner F. Fox? |
Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff? |
Inks | Sheldon Moldoff? |
Notes | The last panel of the story is titled "Madelon's Manual: Postive Advice for Better Negatives", and gives readers tips on how to properly focus their cameras during early mornings and later afternoons. Art revision from Sheldon Moldoff? to Phil Bard?, some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-16-09. |
Characters | George Washington |
Genre | fact |
Pencils | Allen Simon |
Inks | Allen Simon |
Reprinted | from PICTURE STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY #2. |