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Issue Details

Issue V5#2 [50]
Published June 1944
Frequency monthly November to June; bi-monthly July to October
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stanley Beaman

Cover Details

Genre Adventure; Humor
Pencils Bill Allison
Inks Bill Allison
Notes #50 (V. 5 #2)

1 page Target Hits and Misses letters page

Synopsis Editor asks readers if they want to stop "serial" stories. Asks if they want two separate text page stories.
Script editors and readers
Letters typeset
Notes inside front cover

9 page The Cadet story "The Daunton cadets have pledged to sell a million dollars worth of bonds..."

Characters Kit Carter (the Cadet); Dan Merry (his pal)
Genre Adventure
Pencils Joe Donohoe?
Inks Joe Donohoe?

5 page Speck, Spot, and Sis story "Springtime on Grandma's farm brings with it the scent of apple blossoms..."

Genre Adventure; Humor
Pencils Alonzo Vincent
Inks Alonzo Vincent

6 page The Target and the Targeteers story "The order is for The Target and his pals to get the goods through at all costs -- "

Characters villain: Nazis
Genre Superhero
Pencils Bill Allison
Inks Bill Allison

6 page Candid Charlie story "An amateur photographer's dream come true!"

Genre Humor
Pencils B. Gordon Guth (signed)
Inks B. Gordon Guth

2 page text story "Courage Never Changes"

Genre War
Letters typeset

6 page Dan'l Flannel story "Unwittingly Dan'l bought himself a donkey who answers to the name of Cleo!"

Genre Humor

5 page Bull's-Eye Bill story "Bill sets out to square things for one of his buddies and finds out..."

Characters Captain Bill Target (Bull's-Eye Bill); villain: Nazi spys
Genre Adventure; Western
Pencils John Daly?
Inks John Daly?

7 page The Chameleon story "When The Chameleon first glances into an innocent looking brief case, little does he know..."

Characters Pete Stockbridge [The Chameleon]
Genre Adventure; Spy
Pencils Bill Allison
Inks Bill Allison

2 page Targetoons cartoon

Genre Humor
Script Milt Hammer
Pencils Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks Milt Hammer

1 page Captain Tootsie advertisement "Bumbershoot Jump"

Synopsis full page sequential panel art ad on back cover for Tootsie Rolls
Genre Humor
Script Rod Reed
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Notes On back cover of comic.