King Comics #117

(January 1946)

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

Blondie / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Chic Young (credited) (signed as Chic Young)

Pencils

Chic Young (credited) (signed as Chic Young)

Inks

Chic Young (credited) (signed as Chic Young)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Blondie, throw me down a handkerchief please

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead

Reprints

• from Blondie daily (King Features Syndicate) 1943-xx-xx - 1943-xx-xx, 1943-12-08

Indexer Notes

Eight daily strips with panels rearranged to fit four comic book pages

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

The Lone Ranger / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Fran Striker (credited)

Pencils

Charles Flanders (signed)

Inks

Charles Flanders (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; western-frontier

Characters

The Lone Ranger; Tonto

Reprints

• from The Lone Ranger Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1944-03-26 - 1944-04-16

Indexer Notes

Four Sunday pages

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

Dun-Dums / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bob Dunn (credited)

Pencils

Bob Dunn (credited)

Inks

Bob Dunn (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from Dun-Dums Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 194x-xx-xx

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Barney Baxter / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Miller (credited)

Pencils

Bob Naylor (signed as Bob Naylor)

Inks

Bob Naylor (signed as Bob Naylor)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Feature Logo

Barney Baxter in the Air

Genre

adventure; aviation; war

Characters

Barney Baxter; Gopher Gus

Reprints

• from Barney Baxter in the Air Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1944-11-12 - 1944-12-03

Indexer Notes

Four Sunday pages

The Circus Adventure (Table of Contents: 5)

Mandrake the Magician / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Lee Falk (credited)

Pencils

Phil Davis (credited)

Inks

Phil Davis (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It still beats me how Gombo, the gorilla, got out of his cage…

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; superhero

Characters

Mandrake; Lothar; Gombo, the giant gorilla

Reprints

• from Mandrake the Magician Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1944-07-23 - 1944-08-13

Indexer Notes

Three Sunday pages

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Thimble Theatre / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Tom Sims (signed)

Pencils

Bill Zaboly (signed as B. Zaboly)

Inks

Bill Zaboly (signed as B. Zaboly)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Feature Logo

Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye

Genre

humor; adventure

Characters

Popeye

Reprints

• from Thimble Theatre Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1944-06-25 - 1944-07-09

Indexer Notes

Three Sunday pages

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

Private Buck / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Clyde Lewis (credited) (signed as Clyde Lewis)

Pencils

Clyde Lewis (credited) (signed as Clyde Lewis)

Inks

Clyde Lewis (credited) (signed as Clyde Lewis)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; military

Characters

Private Buck

Reprints

• from Private Buck daily (King Features Syndicate) 194x-xx-xx - 194x-xx-xx

Indexer Notes

Four daily gag panels on a single comic book page

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

Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

George McManus (credited as Geo McManus)

Pencils

George McManus (credited as Geo McManus)

Inks

George McManus (credited as Geo McManus)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; domestic

Characters

Archie Jiggs

Reprints

• from Bringing Up Father Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1942-xx-xx

Triumph in Tropica (Table of Contents: 9)

Flash Gordon / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Don Moore

Pencils

Austin Briggs (credited as Alex Raymond)

Inks

Austin Briggs (credited as Alex Raymond)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; science fiction

Characters

Flash Gordon; Dale Arden; Trico; Queen Desira; Brazor

Reprints

• from Flash Gordon Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1944-07-23 - 1944-08-13

Indexer Notes

Four Sunday pages

Alex Raymond was previously credited with script and art, but Don Moore was co-creator and author from the very beginning of the strip, and Austin Briggs has now taken over the art chores.

The original newspaper page most often carried a title for the following week's strip.
07-23 = Flash to the Rescue
07-30 = Brazor's Doom
08-06 = Hour of Triumph
08-13 = [not known]

Football (Table of Contents: 10)

Sport Features / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Burnley

Inks

Jack Burnley

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

sports

The Childhood of The Phantom (Table of Contents: 11)

The Phantom / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Lee Falk (credited)

Pencils

Wilson McCoy (credited as Ray Moore)

Inks

Wilson McCoy (credited as Ray Moore)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The line of The Phantom began four centuries ago...

Genre

adventure; jungle

Characters

The Phantom [Kit Walker]; Kit's father, the 20th Phantom

Synopsis

The legend of The Phantom begins centuries earlier during the time of buccaneers roving the high seas, and the role of jungle authority is passed from father to son over succeeding generations, to create the legend of the undying Ghost Who Walks.

Reprints

• from The Phantom Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1944-07-02 - 1944-07-23

Indexer Notes

Four Sunday pages

The protagonist of practically all of the adventures from beginning to now is Kit Walker, the 21st Phantom. This sequence details his upbringing with his mother's relatives in America, meeting his future wife Diana Palmer as a young girl, his education up to university level, and his return to the jungle when a late teen to say goodbye to his dying mother and begin his training to inherit the mantle of Phantom from his father.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

The Little King / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Otto Soglow (credited as O. Soglow) (signed as O. Soglow)

Pencils

Otto Soglow (credited as O. Soglow) (signed as O. Soglow)

Inks

Otto Soglow (credited as O. Soglow) (signed as O. Soglow)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor

Characters

The Little King

Reprints

• from The Little King Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 194x-xx-xx

Indexer Notes

A single Sunday half page

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Henry / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Carl Anderson (credited)

Pencils

Carl Anderson (credited)

Inks

Carl Anderson (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Henry

Reprints

• from Henry Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1943-xx-xx

Indexer Notes

back cover