(August 27, 1973)
Street Enterprises,
1971 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.45 USD
- Pages
- 24
- Indicia Frequency
- weekly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Brand
-
ST
- Editing
- Jerry Sinkovec (credited as Jerome Sinkovec) (editor); Mike Tiefenbacher (credited as Michael L. Tiefenbacher) (associate editor)
[no title indexed]
Garth / comic story / 0.75 page
- Job Number
- F.152 - F.157
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As Garth batters in the door...
- Genre
- science fiction; adventure
- Characters
- Garth; Gloria; Conrad Von Ritter; Paul; Wolf-Man of Ausensee [Gunther Von Ritter]
- Synopsis
- Garth discovers that the 'Wolf-Man of Ausensee' is Conrad's brother.
- Reprints
- from Garth daily (Daily Mirror Newspapers Ltd) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx [six strips]
Indexer Notes
Wikipedia article on Garth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_(comic_strip)) refers to this episode story line as "The Wolf Man of Ausensee". However, there are no dates or number of strips listed for each episode, so there is no way currently to pin down the original dates of publication. However, most of the strips in this issue that were originally published in England tend to be from the late 1960's. That would be consistent with the hairstyles of the characters in these strips.
[no title indexed]
Johnny Hazard / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Haz' ruse of a tape-recorded 'phantom army' is exposed ...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Johnny Hazard; Inga; Snap; Colonel Roche
- Synopsis
- Johnny causes an elephant stampede that kills Roche. With Snap's help, Johnny has fooled Roche's men into believing an opposing army is about to capture them and they flee in panic, ending Roche's drug-smuggling operation.
- Reprints
- from Johnny Hazard daily (King Features Syndicate) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
Indexer Notes
Blurb at the end of the last strip:
Next week: "The Siamese Connection"
[no title indexed]
Rip Kirby / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the teeming bazaar of a fabled city...
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Rip Kirby; Desmond
- Synopsis
- Rip buys an old lamp at a mid-east bazaar. When Desmond attempts to clean the lamp, a genie seems to appear.
- Reprints
- from Rip Kirby daily (King Features Syndicate) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18
[no title indexed]
Buz Sawyer / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I think I see what makes you tick, Tiger ...
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
- Characters
- Buz Sawyer; Willy Wallace; Christy
- Synopsis
- Willy Wallace wants to be famous, but his attempts to be a hero turn out wrong.
- Reprints
- from Buz Sawyer daily (King Features Syndicate) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Secret Agent Corrigan / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Escape attempt!
- Genre
- spy; adventure
- Characters
- Guido; Phil Corrigan; Stryde; Sebastian Quirt; Ramsden; Onyx; Lucretia
- Synopsis
- Phil, Guido, Stryde and Ramsden attempt to escape Quirt's arena. Onyx is about to shoot at the escaping prisoners, but Quirt wants them alive since one of them might provide the body for his brain transplant. In the struggle between them, the gun goes off and Onyx is killed. This ends Quirt's plan since Onyx was the only person capable of performing the brain transplant.
- Reprints
- from Secret Agent Corrigan daily (King Features Syndicate) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Modesty Blaise / comic story / 0.75 page
- Job Number
- 1746 - 1751
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the early hours, Matteo and Luigi report to their master, Count Alborini ...
- Genre
- adventure; spy
- Characters
- Modesty Blaise; Willie Garvin; Count Alborini
- Synopsis
- When Willie arrives, Modesty tells him how Max Aquino learned of the Red Gryphon and how he was killed. With Willie's help, she plots her revenge.
- Reprints
- from Modesty Blaise daily (Associated Newspapers/Solo Syndication) 1969-01-24 - 1969-01-30 [six strips]
Indexer Notes
These strips do not have dates, but have job serial numbers in each strip (1746-1751). From the Modesty Blaise Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_Blaise), that places this sequence in the storyline for 'The Red Gryphon' (serial numbers 1689-1794 running from November 18, 1968 through March 22, 1969). Working from the start date of the storyline and using the English calendar for those years (and accounting for the fact that there was a 1720A strip in this storyline on Christmas Day, December 25, 1968), the strips published here would have been originally published from January 24-30, 1969.
[no title indexed]
Flash Gordon / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Easy, girl! We are not your enemies!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Flash Gordon; Hans Zarkov
- Synopsis
- Flash and Zarkov encounter a woman from a Dhreen ship awakened after 20,000 years of frozen sleep. She discovers her ship and crew have been destroyed. Previously, the war with the Skorpi was her whole life and she wonders what she should do now.
- Reprints
- from Flash Gordon daily (King Features Syndicate) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Ambler / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Gunner' Gomez has persuaded Ambler to accompany him ...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Angel 'Gunner' Gomez; Ambler; Dolly Dreeme; Red Ladderback; Maria
- Synopsis
- When Dolly meets Ambler, she stops paying any attention to Gunner.
- Reprints
- from Ambler daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Steve Canyon / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Patti, I don't know much about you ...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Poteet Canyon; Eve Starr; Virgilia Downspout
- Synopsis
- Poteet is posing as an aspiring actress 'Patti Canton' to gather information for a story she is writing. But Eve knows who she really is and she and Virgilia are pulling the strings behind the scenes.
- Reprints
- from Steve Canyon daily (Field Enterprises, Inc.) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Johnny hits the deck as two of Baron's men intervene ...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Jim Hawk; Johnny Rainbow; Starkey; Baron; Josephine
- Synopsis
- Jim is tied to a chair and the door is booby-trapped with dynamite while Johnny is shooting it out with Baron's men. Jim manages to get loose from the ropes and dives through the window to avoid setting off the dynamite. Meanwhile, Baron and his daughter make a break for the house while one of his men covers him. But in his panic, Baron forgets about the booby-trapped door and the resulting explosion kills both him and his daughter.
- Reprints
- from Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors daily (BP Singer Features) 1973-08-06 - 1973-08-11
[no title indexed]
Mary Perkins on Stage / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ... Mary makes a startling discovery concerning Beau's new image!
- Genre
- drama; romance; adventure
- Characters
- Mary Perkins; Beau Valentine
- Synopsis
- After Mary visits Beau in the hospital, he starts drinking and carousing, totally out of his character.
- Reprints
- from On Stage daily (The Chicago Tribune) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Mandrake the Magician / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dr. Robot, Stop your machine -- I command you!
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Mandrake; Dr. Robot; Professor R. Master
- Synopsis
- Mandrake tries to get Dr. Robot to stop his robots from attacking him. But his hypnotism doesn't work on Dr. Robot because he is just another robot under the control of Prof. R. Master.
- Reprints
- from Mandrake the Magician daily (King Features Syndicate, Inc.) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / comic story / 0.75 page
- Job Number
- #2214
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The roars are getting louder ... The great cats are ready for the kill!
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Samie; Bu-Don
- Synopsis
- Tarzan arrives to find Samie and Bu-Don on a wounded Ben-Ko, surrounded by tigers.
- Reprints
- from Tarzan Sunday (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1973-08-12 [black-and-white]
[no title indexed]
Larry Brannan / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Deep in Canada's northern bush, the last 'marker' of a group of mining claims is staked.
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Larry Brannan; Raymonde Duval; Mr. MacInnis
- Synopsis
- Larry is asked to pick up Miss Duval and bring her with him on his way back to Toronto. Miss Duval's father had been one of Mac's oldest friends and she reveals to Mac and Larry that she is being pressured to sell her father's property to an undisclosed buyer. She has received anonymous letters, telegrams, phone calls and even veiled threats. Mac instructs Larry to find out who is behind the pressure and what they are after.
- Reprints
- from Larry Brannan daily (Toronto Star Syndicate) 1961-11-13 - 1961-11-18 [six strips]
Indexer Notes
The fifth and sixth strips are reversed from the story order flow, but this is probably due to a labeling mistake by Mortimer since it is the only way to account for the sequence aligning on a daily schedule.
Reference information printed for this story lists it as 'circa early '60s'. Four of the strips are signed and dated by Mortimer, but due to cropping only two of the dates are visible. The third and sixth strips are dated 11-15 and 11-18, respectively. The only year in the early 1960's where these dates would have aligned with a daily schedule would have been 1961.
[no title indexed]
Rick O'Shay / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's that deputy marshal I told you about, Grundy...
- Genre
- adventure; humor; western-frontier
- Characters
- Rick O'Shay; Grundy; "Slash" Henshaw
- Synopsis
- When Henshaw spots Rick from the rocks above, he orders Grundy to get off his mule and help bushwhack the deputy. But Grundy's rifle accidentally goes off when he falls getting off his mule, killing Henshaw. Rick discovers Henshaw's body and Grundy laying hurt on the rocks and assumes the old man intentionally risked his life to saved him.
- Reprints
- from Rick O'Shay daily (The Chicago Tribune) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Dateline: Danger! / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The friendly 'lawyer' has offered to take responsibility for the lost wallet!
- Genre
- adventure
- Synopsis
- A man in a wheelchair posing as a lawyer, his 'nurse', and another woman run a 'lost wallet' con to scam Mrs. Raven out of $1400.
- Reprints
- from Dateline: Danger! daily (Publishers-Hall Syndicate) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
The Phantom / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Refuse to join us...rather die?
- Genre
- adventure; superhero; jungle
- Characters
- The Phantom [Kit Walker]; Devil; Chief; Sgt. Malo
- Synopsis
- The Phantom exposes a gang posing as vampires to scare farmers off their land and buy it cheap when they discover that there is oil under the land.
- Reprints
- from The Phantom daily (King Features Syndicate, Inc.) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Brick Bradford / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bradford is not an enemy agent...at least not from Gwatara!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Brick Bradford; Twila
- Synopsis
- The Aguilaians have bugged the Gwataraian embassy and move to thwart Brick's attempts to whisk Twila away using her spacecraft.
- Reprints
- from Brick Bradford daily (King Features Syndicate, Inc.) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
James Bond / comic story / 0.75 page
- Job Number
- 681 - 686
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Achtung! Stay back and make no sound until I give the signal!
- Genre
- spy
- Characters
- James Bond; Rona; Uhlmann
- Synopsis
- Bond acts as live 'bait' for the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. executioners with Mounties staked out in the apartment across the hall. Rona screams and fires shots out the window in her room down the hall to draw the Mounties away from their stakeout to give Uhlmann's murder squad a chance to move in.
- Reprints
- from James Bond daily (Daily Express) 1968-03-18 - 1968-03-23 [six strips]
Indexer Notes
These strips do not have dates, but have job serial numbers in each strip (681-686). From the James Bond comic strip Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(comic_strip)), that places this sequence in the storyline for 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (serial numbers 603-815 running from December 18, 1967 through October 3, 1968). Working from the start date of the storyline and using the English calendar for those years, the strips published here would have been originally published during the week of March 18-23, 1968.
[no title indexed]
Jeff Cobb / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Back home a returned runaway boy relives his brief adventure...
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
- Synopsis
- A hobo ignores a 'No Trespassing' sign and climbs over a fence. He is chased by a guard dog, then a man with a gun arrives.
- Reprints
- from Jeff Cobb daily (General Features Syndicate) 1973-08-13 - 1973-08-18 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Jeff Hawke / comic story / 0.75 page
- Job Number
- H4695 - H4700
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So, Earthlings - Your growing planet is now well advanced ...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Jeff Hawke
- Synopsis
- The female leader of the Andromeda Patrol tours Jeff's station and speculates that the Assessor should expect five years in the uranium mines.
- Reprints
- from Jeff Hawke daily (Daily Express) 1969-06-23 - 1969-06-28 [six strips]
Indexer Notes
These strips do not have dates, but have job serial numbers in each strip (H4695-H4700). From the Jeff Hawke Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawke), that places this sequence in the storyline for 'The Strange Ship' (serial numbers 4644-4700 running from April 22, 1969 through June 29, 1969). Since June 29 was a Sunday in 1969, it is likely that the strips published here would have been originally published during the week of June 23-28, 1969.
[no title indexed]
Ben Casey / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm sorry, Dr. Casey. I was in the country and there was some fuel pump trouble ...
- Genre
- drama; medical
- Characters
- Dr. Ben Casey; Dr. David Zorba; Maggie; Dr. Duval; Dr. Hayes
- Synopsis
- Dr. Casey begins to admonish Dr. Duval for being late when she proceeds to tell him off strongly. The next day, Dr. Hayes has exciting news for Dr. Casey and Dr. Zorba about one of the interns who has performed admirably in a crisis situation and it turns out that the intern was Dr. Duval.
- Reprints
- from Ben Casey daily (Newspaper Enterprise Association) 1963-09-23 - 1963-09-28 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Superman / comic story / 0.75 page
- Job Number
- 895 - 900
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lem Stuart, ace talent scout, is seeking someone to play the title role ...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lois Lane; Superman [Clark Kent]; Lem Stuart
- Synopsis
- Superman has trouble convincing Stuart that he is really Superman until he throws him out the window and catches him when he falls. Then Superman discovers a concealed bomb in Stuart's trunk. Lois thinks she has a great story, but her editor (Perry White?) thinks it all may be a publicity stunt and assigns Clark to check it out. When he attempts to see Stuart, the secretary informs him that Stuart isn't in. Clark uses his x-ray vision to determine that there has been a struggle in Stuart's office.
- Reprints
- from Superman daily (McClure Newspaper Syndicate) 1941-11-24 - 1941-11-29 [six strips]
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- 2833 - 2838
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As the sun dropped swiftly into the west, all that remained of the James West expedition ...
- Genre
- jungle; adventure
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton]; Jim West; Betty West; Terry O'Rorke; Dr. Wong; Demura
- Synopsis
- While the others are gathering wood for a fire, Demura, the Kohrian, voices a weird chant that causes Betty to follow him in a trance-like state. Ultimately, with her faculties numbed by the weird chant, Demura picks Betty up and carries her away. When Captain West returns to find Betty missing, the party goes searching for her. Meanwhile, Tarzan has picked up the scent of Tarmangani (white man) and Numa (lion) and investigates. During the search, Terry encounters a lion and a panther at the same time.
- Reprints
- from Tarzan daily (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1948-08-30 - 1948-09-04 [six strips]
Indexer Notes
These strips do not have dates, but have job serial numbers in each strip (2833-2838). From the ERBzine's List of Daily Tarzan Comic Strips (http://www.erbzine.com/mag22/2293.html), that places this sequence in the storyline for 'Tarzan and the Fires of Kohr' (serial numbers 2833-2892 running through November 20, 1948). The start date for the storyline is not referenced, but we know there were 60 strips in the story. Assuming a normal daily publishing schedule and working backwards from the end date would put the publishing date for strip 2833 at August 30, 1948.
[no title indexed]
Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a Sydney clinic...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dr. Leon Pruitt; Stephanie Pruitt; Lou Bender; Mr. Fleming
- Synopsis
- Rackets boss Lou Bender has issued orders to kill Dr. Pruitt if he can't come up with the money Pruitt owes him. Pruitt has a patient that has survived a car crash, but is dying of cancer. Instead of telling the patient about the cancer, Pruitt is actually surgically repairing the man's face so that he will be the target of Bender's men instead of himself. Pruitt's wife thinks there must be another way out, but he insists on proceeding with his plan.
- Reprints
- from Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor Sunday (BP Singer Features) 1973-01-07 [black-and-white]
Indexer Notes
Reference information included with the strip:
Episode 2 Series 28 "The Million Dollar Facelift" 1-7
There is no year referenced for this strip. However, from the Wikipedia article on Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Hawk_and_the_Flying_Doctors), we know that Hart Amos worked on this strip from March 1970 - June 1977). Assuming the '1-7' reference is actually a shorthand for January 7th, the only year in the Amos tenure where a Sunday fell on January 7th was 1973.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan -
1.
["As Garth batters in the door..."]
Garth -
2.
["Haz' ruse of a tape-recorded 'phantom army' is exposed ..."]
Johnny Hazard -
3.
["In the teeming bazaar of a fabled city..."]
Rip Kirby -
4.
["I think I see what makes you tick, Tiger ..."]
Buz Sawyer -
5.
["Escape attempt!"]
Secret Agent Corrigan -
6.
["In the early hours, Matteo and Luigi report to their master, Count Alborini ..."]
Modesty Blaise -
7.
["Easy, girl! We are not your enemies!"]
Flash Gordon -
8.
["'Gunner' Gomez has persuaded Ambler to accompany him ..."]
Ambler -
9.
["Patti, I don't know much about you ..."]
Steve Canyon -
10.
["Johnny hits the deck as two of Baron's men intervene ..."]
Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors -
11.
["... Mary makes a startling discovery concerning Beau's new image!"]
Mary Perkins on Stage -
12.
["Dr. Robot, Stop your machine -- I command you!"]
Mandrake the Magician -
13.
["The roars are getting louder ... The great cats are ready for the kill!"]
Tarzan -
14.
["Deep in Canada's northern bush, the last 'marker' of a group of mining claims is staked."]
Larry Brannan -
15.
["There's that deputy marshal I told you about, Grundy..."]
Rick O'Shay -
16.
["The friendly 'lawyer' has offered to take responsibility for the lost wallet!"]
Dateline: Danger! -
17.
["Refuse to join us...rather die?"]
The Phantom -
18.
["Bradford is not an enemy agent...at least not from Gwatara!"]
Brick Bradford -
19.
["Achtung! Stay back and make no sound until I give the signal!"]
James Bond -
20.
["Back home a returned runaway boy relives his brief adventure..."]
Jeff Cobb -
21.
["So, Earthlings - Your growing planet is now well advanced ..."]
Jeff Hawke -
22.
["I'm sorry, Dr. Casey. I was in the country and there was some fuel pump trouble ..."]
Ben Casey -
23.
["Lem Stuart, ace talent scout, is seeking someone to play the title role ..."]
Superman -
24.
["As the sun dropped swiftly into the west, all that remained of the James West expedition ..."]
Tarzan -
25.
["In a Sydney clinic..."]
Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors
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- Steve Belknap
- Michael Hoskin
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