First issue with Marvel red circle colophon on cover.
All information for this issue from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas list, September 2010.
For Patsy Walker Comics for 1 October 1948. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Jean Goodman, Business Manager.
Signed with "man" character after "Kurtz."
Patsy reads The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1600).