Joe Palooka
#96
(August 1956)
Harvey,
1955 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Every other month
- On-sale Date
- 1956-06-12
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey Comics [Stamp]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited) (editor, vice president)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from regular feature, Big 'H' Kid News.
Indicia title is just "Joe Palooka".
Indicia title is just "Joe Palooka".
The Climbing of K2
Joe Palooka / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ham Fisher (credited)
- Inks
- Ham Fisher (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; sports
- Characters
- Joe Palooka; Humphrey Pennyworth
- Reprints
-
in Joe Palooka (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1952 series) #37 -
in Joe Palooka (Magazine Management, 1952 series) #61 [This is a line drawing version of the original painted cover, presumably made as a preliminary step for the painting.]
-
Indexer Notes
Title from the story.
The Climbing of K2!
Joe Palooka / comic story / 19.33 pages
- Genre
- adventure; sports
- Synopsis
- Humphrey is assigned to deliver an ice-axe to mountain climber Anders Thorne, who wants to beat the Soviet climbing team to the top of K2, but Soviet agents are hot on his trail.
Indexer Notes
The splash page is 1/3 of the comic's intro page.
Athlete's Feat!
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; historical; sports
- Characters
- Cecil Isbell; Bob Garbark; Jimmy Dykes; Jack Dempsey
A Giant of a Man
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; historical; sports
- Characters
- Jim Jeffries
- Reprints
-
from Joe Palooka Comics (Harvey, 1945 series) #80 (November 1953) [Original printing had no title.]
-
Amazing Resemblance
Joe Palooka / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Ham Fisher (signed as Ham Fisher)
- Pencils
- Ham Fisher (signed as Ham Fisher)
- Inks
- Ham Fisher (signed as Ham Fisher)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Reprints
- from Humphrey Comics (Harvey, 1948 series) #15 (February 1951)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Climbing of K2
Joe Palooka -
1.
[no title indexed]
Joe's Corner -
2.
The Climbing of K2!
Joe Palooka -
3.
Athlete's Feat!
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4.
A Giant of a Man
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5.
Amazing Resemblance
Joe Palooka -
6.
Presidential Puzzle Page
Humphrey
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Steve Coates
- Denys Howard
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Len Wolinsky
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