The Barker
#15
(December 1949)
Quality Comics,
1946 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- Harry Stein; Everett M. Arnold [as E. M. Arnold] (general manager)
Issue Notes
Copyright 1949 by Comic Magazines.
The Barker Deflates Froggo the Briny Badman
The Barker / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Major Midge
[no title indexed]
The Barker / comic story / 13 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Stop struggling, gentlemen! I visited your world...why can't you spend a few hours in mine?
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Major Midge; Tiny Tim; Lena; Shali; Spudo the Spider-Man; Froggo the Frog Man (villain)
- Synopsis
- The circus travels to Gay Bay, where they found their camp on the waterfront, and they tried to devise new ways to wow folks with aquatic tricks. Instead, they are terrorized by Froggo, who could stay underwater for 20 minutes. While the Colonel thought Froggo to be the ultimate act, in reality the performer was bilking the circus for cash.
[no title indexed]
Spudo / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sorry, boys, but I just washed my hands and I can't do a thing with them!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Spudo; Ira Ratt; Ellen; Oscar Guggle; Deputy Snodgrass
- Synopsis
- Spudo gets involved in a local sheriff's race.
[no title indexed]
Salty Waters / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now look, Chris, fun is fun but what say we turn back now...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Salty Waters; Christopher Columbus
- Synopsis
- Salty dreams of sea monsters.
[no title indexed]
The Barker / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ladies and gentlemen, as you can all see, this amazing bareback riding performance...
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Tiny Tim; Lena; Major Midge; Trixie; Stuart Gridley; Rosa Lamont Gridley; Jessup
- Synopsis
- A man goes to great lengths to keep his wife from going to the circus.
Indexer Notes
Final appearance of The Barker feature in The Barker. The feature has also been appearing in National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series), which also ends this month with #75. 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 National Comics #75) of The Barker [Carnie Callahan] character. When the feature is revived in 2005, it will star his grandson Kieran "Kitt" Calahan.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Barker Deflates Froggo the Briny Badman
The Barker -
1.
["Stop struggling, gentlemen! I visited your world...why can't you spend a few hours in mine?"]
The Barker -
2.
["Sorry, boys, but I just washed my hands and I can't do a thing with them!"]
Spudo -
3.
Cat Act
-
4.
["Now look, Chris, fun is fun but what say we turn back now..."]
Salty Waters -
5.
["Ladies and gentlemen, as you can all see, this amazing bareback riding performance..."]
The Barker
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