(January 1945)
Rural Home,
1945 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-11-18
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Rural Home Publishing Co.
- Editing
- Edwin Hamilton ? (editor)
Issue Notes
Proper sequence order supplied by Gary Watson, March 2008.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1945, page 97, registration number B661356.
The lettering in every story appears to be done by the same person with an extreme slanted style.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1945, page 97, registration number B661356.
The lettering in every story appears to be done by the same person with an extreme slanted style.
[no title indexed]
Jack Bradley / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On board an admiral's flagship somewhere near Australia...
- Genre
- military; war
- Characters
- Jack Bradley; Admiral Floyd; Bradley's grandfather; Mr. Perkins; Mr. Roberts
- Synopsis
- Newly appointed to commander, Bradley is given a dangerous assignment. In answers to questions, he tells a tale of his grandfather's experiences in the South Pacific, with flashback sequences.
- Keywords
- Desolation Island; South Pacific; volcano; World War II
Indexer Notes
Art is consistent with the Jack Bradley art attributed to Harry Fisk in the next issue.
Story to be continued in next month's Red Circle magazine.
The Disappearing Dynamite
Dinky Dibbs / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Congratulations, Dinky. You've captured the whole mob with...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dinky Dabbs; Cracker (parrot); mayor; Fritz; watchman; Hans; Sarge; Mike
- Synopsis
- Dinky and Cracker (a parrot, with more intelligence than Dinky) have solved the crime mystery.
[no title indexed]
The Prankster / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Comedy battles crime - and wins...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- The Prankster [Michael Morgan]; Swifty Sweet; Trigs Wilson; bartender; Patrolman Hammer
- Synopsis
- With an escaped convict blackmailing a lounge singer, Morgan goes into action as the Prankster.
- Keywords
- masked hero
Indexer Notes
I: The Prankster
The Other Half
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Rain glistened upon the rails curving away out of the freight siding.
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Casey; Major Wilkens; Steve
- Synopsis
- A warehouse worker uses his motorcycle to bring a soldier to his dying mother.
- Keywords
- Evanston; motorcycle; World War II
Fifty Fathoms Foster
Lloyd Foster / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- From the pages of modern naval history a staunch...
- Genre
- military; war
- Characters
- Lt. Commander Lloyd Foster; Bob Evans; Stevens; unnamed sailors; Japanese soldiers.
- Synopsis
- Foster leads a team of navy divers to salvage 800 tons of TNT from a sunken freighter.
- Keywords
- Bombay India; deep sea diving; Japanese; salvage operation; sampan; SS Savoy; TNT
[no title indexed]
The Judge and the Jury / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The passing parade of crime becomes a grim picture...
- Genre
- crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- The Judge [Jim]; Rod Vicars [as Professor Stanislav] [as Mr. Dale]; Jim's father; college dean, Mr. Willis; Gavin; Frank Willis; policemen
- Synopsis
- The Judge hands over to the police a killer and conman who has cheated many victims over ten years.
- Keywords
- court room; masked hero; real estate scheme
Indexer Notes
Introduction and origin of the The Judge. The Jury is composed of victims cheated by the defendent.
Art credits suggested by Jerry Bails’ Who’s Who.
[no title indexed]
Stenchy / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do you know who I am? I'm nuts!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; satire-parody
- Characters
- Stenchy Skunk; unnamed duck; Adolf Hitbunny; unnamed pig
- Synopsis
- Stenchy gasses the duck, who reports the attack to the Fuehrabbit. Adolf Hitbunny then tries to steal the secret of the gas from Stenchy.
Indexer Notes
A parody of Adolf Hitler.
[no title indexed]
Red Riot / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A flash of red in the green forests...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Red Riot [Jack Chandler]; Jake; paymaster; Norvo
- Synopsis
- Jake belittles Jack's ignorance in losing his money to Norvo. Jack goes back to school, becomes educated and eventually meets up with Norvo.
- Keywords
- forest; lumberjack; Oregon
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Lloyd Foster -
1.
["On board an admiral's flagship somewhere near Australia..."]
Jack Bradley -
2.
The Disappearing Dynamite
Dinky Dibbs -
3.
["Comedy battles crime - and wins..."]
The Prankster -
4.
The Other Half
-
5.
Fifty Fathoms Foster
Lloyd Foster -
6.
["The passing parade of crime becomes a grim picture..."]
The Judge and the Jury -
7.
["Do you know who I am? I'm nuts!"]
Stenchy -
8.
["A flash of red in the green forests..."]
Red Riot
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Devine
- Daniel Martinez
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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