The Barker
#6
(Winter 1947)
Quality Comics,
1946 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- George Brenner
[no title indexed]
The Barker / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Grawk! Those aren't human bones...they're daggers!
- Characters
- The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Major Midge; Tiny Tim; Lena; Miss Digby (skinny woman); Fatso DeKavy (villain, introduction); Skinny DeKavy (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Lena becomes the object of the affections of the Jealousy Brothers and she is afraid of losing her gig to the fat man. To offset this, the Colonel hires a skinny woman, but that only diverts the brother's affections.
Indexer Notes
The DeKavy's are also called the Jealousy Brothers.
Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling".
Script credit based on textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
[no title indexed]
The Barker / comic story / 11 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm getting hungry!
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Lena; Tiny Tim; Major Midge; Carl (death); Nita; Andor (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- Andor paints two of his performers, Carl and Nita, to look like bronze statues while they hold challenging poses with their great strength. However, when Carl dies from a mishap, Andor dives into poisonous paint, thus freeing Nita from extortion.
[no title indexed]
Spudo / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I could swear it feels like he's holding us!
Indexer Notes
Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling".
Script credit based on textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
Circus Holiday
The Barker / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; adventure
- Characters
- The Barker [Carnie Calahan]
[no title indexed]
The Barker / comic story / 14 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Awr-r-k! I think I see a ghost!
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Major Midge; Lena; Tiny Tim
Indexer Notes
Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling".
Script credit based on textual analysis by Lou Mougin.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["A Side Show With Laughs and Thrills!"]
The Barker -
1.
["Grawk! Those aren't human bones...they're daggers!"]
The Barker -
2.
["I'm getting hungry!"]
The Barker -
3.
["I could swear it feels like he's holding us!"]
Spudo -
4.
Circus Holiday
The Barker -
5.
["Awr-r-k! I think I see a ghost!"]
The Barker
This issue was modified by, among others
- Craig Delich
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
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