(December 1949)

Quality Comics, 1940 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bimonthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Comic Magazines
Brand
Quality Comic Group
Editing
George Brenner

Issue Notes

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The Barker Breaks the Bank at Donte Marlo! (Table of Contents)

The Barker / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Gill Fox
Inks
Gill Fox
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; humor
Characters
The Barker [Carnie Callahan]

[The Barker Breaks the Bank at Donte Marlo!] (Table of Contents: 1)

The Barker / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Joe Millard (sourced)
Pencils
Klaus Nordling (signed)
Inks
Klaus Nordling (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at King Carnie in person...
Genre
adventure; humor
Characters
The Barker [Carnie Callahan]

Indexer Notes

Final appearance of The Barker feature in National Comics. The feature has its own comic (The Barker (Quality, 1946 series)), which also ends this month with #15. Which of these issues should be considered the final Golden Age appearance of the feature is unclear. The feature appears next in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 Series) #801 (February 2005).

Final appearance (with The Barker #15) of The Barker [Carnie Callahan] character. When the feature is revived in 2005, it will star his grandson Kieran "Kitt" Calahan.

title from cover

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

Lassie / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Bernard Dibble
Pencils
Bernard Dibble
Inks
Bernard Dibble
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
But our home seems so bare without a dog, Roberta!
Genre
humor; children
Characters
Lassie; Roberta; Uncle Balty
Synopsis
Lassie wants a dog but her older sister Roberta says they can't have one. Lassie hopes Uncle Balty will help change Roberta's mind. One thing leads to another and soon Lassie's home is filled with dogs.

Indexer Notes

Basically the same story premise as Dibble's "Bill Bumlin" story in Tip Top Comics (United Feature, 1936 series) #v10#10 (118) May 1946.

Final appearance in National Comics. Next (and final ever) appearance in Lady Luck (Quality Comics, 1949 Series) #88 (April 1950).

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

Honeybun / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Gustavson (sourced)
Pencils
Paul Gustavson (sourced)
Inks
Paul Gustavson (sourced)
Colors
?
Letters
Paul Gustavson (sourced)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Honeybun, do you take this man to be your father-in-law?
Genre
romance; domestic
Characters
Honeybun

Indexer Notes

Final appearance in National Comics. Next (and final ever) appearance in The Spirit (Quality Comics, 1944 Series) #19 (January 1950).

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

Sally O'Neil Policewoman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Dan Zolnerowich ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Sally O'Neil, policewoman, is handed a fortune on a silver platter...
Genre
detective-mystery
Characters
Sally O'Neil (last appearance)

Indexer Notes

The special way of walking and long torsos with broad shoulders tilting sideways and some staring eyes are signs of a probable Zolnerowich. Kirkpatrick has more close up faces in side view popping in from the sides of panels and most of the figures in the lower part of the panels and also less movement.

Final appearance.

Big Wheel (Table of Contents: 5)

The Barker / text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
The Barker

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

Steve Wood / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al McWilliams
Inks
Al McWilliams
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A daring hold-up aboard a luxury liner!
Genre
detective-mystery
Characters
Steve Wood (last appearance); Professor Oxton; Sally (secretary); Inspector Flanagan
Synopsis
A daring hold-up aboard a luxury liner.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

This is McWilliams, compare with his Steve Wood stories in #60, 61 and 63. A more varied layout and movement of figures than Kirkpatrick.

Final appearance.

Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Barker Breaks the Bank at Donte Marlo!
    The Barker
  2. 1. [The Barker Breaks the Bank at Donte Marlo!]
    The Barker
  3. 2. ["But our home seems so bare without a dog, Roberta!"]
    Lassie
  4. 3. ["Honeybun, do you take this man to be your father-in-law?"]
    Honeybun
  5. 4. ["Sally O'Neil, policewoman, is handed a fortune on a silver platter..."]
    Sally O'Neil Policewoman
  6. 5. Big Wheel
    The Barker
  7. 6. ["A daring hold-up aboard a luxury liner!"]
    Steve Wood
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  • Craig Delich
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
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