(July 1944)

Rural Home, 1944 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
On-sale Date
1944-06-10
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Rewl Publications Inc.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1944, page 255, registration number B636727.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Green Turtle / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Green Turtle [Ching Quai]; Burma Boy
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

The Green Turtle / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Chu F. Hing ?
Pencils
Chu F. Hing
Inks
Chu F. Hing
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The shadow of Jap terrorism spreads across ravaged China...
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Green Turtle [Ching Quai]; Burma Boy; Ra-Ting; Wun Too; Chinese guerrillas; Japanese army [Major Katsuko; Major Hotsu; other soldiers unnamed]
Keywords
China

Indexer Notes

Chu Hing is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and he is also the creator.

Credits also verified by Alex Jay in his article in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows, 1999 series) #167 (January 2021).

CHU, F. HING (artist), surname CHU is listed first in Chinese.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Tommy Paige / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bill Allison
Inks
Bill Allison
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Tommy Paige, marine combat correspondent, goes along on a scouting party...
Genre
adventure
Characters
Tommy Paige
Synopsis
Tommy Paige disguises himself as a Japanese sergeant and gets into their camp.

Indexer Notes

Allison is credited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. on this feature in issue #1. The face in close up with long wavy eyebrows, visible pupils, and special ears with a tiny line at the flip, mouth with a marked upper lip, are all signs of Allison and not Nina Albright, whom he can be mixed up with. Compare with his Jesse James story in Cowboy Western #38. He is credited on working for Rural Home publishers by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Black Buccaneer / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Gil Kane ?; Leonard Starr ?
Inks
Gil Kane ?; Leonard Starr ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Mexico - and a band of Spanish conquistadors attack...
Genre
historical
Characters
The Black Buccaneer [Jeffrey Scott]; Boris (first mate); Don Fernando Y Perara (Spanish captain); LePetit (dwarf)
Synopsis
The dwarf, LePetit joins the pirate crew.

Indexer Notes

Same art as in issue #1, and it looks like Leonard Starr, but uncertain. Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has Gil Kane and/or Starr as possible artists. Must be Kane when he was Eli Katz.

Ghost Town (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
detective-mystery

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Super Drooper and Drip / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Art Moore
Inks
Art Moore
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
An awl is such a boring thing!
Genre
humor
Characters
Super Drooper; Drip

Indexer Notes

Art Moore is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and it matches his signed story in #3.

The Mystery of the Disappearing Island! (Table of Contents: 6)

Red Hawk / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ken Battefield
Inks
Ken Battefield ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero; western-frontier
Characters
Red Hawk (ace pilot)
Synopsis
Red Hawk solves the mystery of the disappearing island.

Indexer Notes

Battefield is credited on pencils on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the very simple art match his early Buck Jones stories in Slam Bang Comics. Just a few lines. Inker is not known, but just as simple as the pencils, so maybe all by Battefield?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Jun-Gal / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Harold DeLay
Inks
Harold DeLay
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Fascism invades the jungle!
Genre
adventure; jungle
Characters
Jun-Gal; Adolf Hitler (Der Führer); Colonel Kleinhurt
Synopsis
The nazis invade the jungle to get possession of the powerful radium to make an atomic disrupter.

Indexer Notes

DeLay is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the art matches his signed stories in Real Life Comics.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Mr. Ree / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Henry Kiefer
Inks
Henry Kiefer
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Magician-detective, Mr. Ree, donates his services...
Genre
detective-mystery
Characters
Mr. Ree (magician detective)
Synopsis
Mr. Ree saves two boys from a fire they start to disrupt his magic act.

Indexer Notes

Kiefer is spotted by his tired, skewed faces with eyes not in line and always out of focus. He had many stories for Classics Illustrated.

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Green Turtle
  2. 1. ["The shadow of Jap terrorism spreads across ravaged China..."]
    The Green Turtle
  3. 2. ["Tommy Paige, marine combat correspondent, goes along on a scouting party..."]
    Tommy Paige
  4. 3. ["Mexico - and a band of Spanish conquistadors attack..."]
    Black Buccaneer
  5. 4. Ghost Town
  6. 5. ["An awl is such a boring thing!"]
    Super Drooper and Drip
  7. 6. The Mystery of the Disappearing Island!
    Red Hawk
  8. 7. ["Fascism invades the jungle!"]
    Jun-Gal
  9. 8. ["Magician-detective, Mr. Ree, donates his services..."]
    Mr. Ree
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