Ace Comics
#144
(March 1949)
David McKay,
1937 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1949-01-27
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Brand
-
This Is a King Features Comic
- Editing
- Hal Fox ? (editor)
Issue Notes
Date on sale from arrival date stamped on cover of copy being indexed.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1949, page 1, registration number B177202, has 1949-01-28.
On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1949, page 1, registration number B177202, has 1949-01-28.
[no title indexed]
The Phantom / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; superhero; jungle
Indexer Notes
Art may be by Joe Musial.
Double For A Princess
The Phantom / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- adventure; superhero; jungle
- Synopsis
- Luckily The Phantom was able to thwart wicked Rajah Simbal's plot against the Maharajah of Nimpore...but can he do the same for the Maharajah's missing daughter Princess Lakania and her friend, Diana Palmer who find herself.. a princes for a day!
- Reprints
- From Phantom daily strips (King Features Syndicate) 1944-12-18 - 1944-12-23, 1944-12-25 - 1944-12-30, 1945-01-01 - 1945-01-06 and 1945-01-08 - 1945-01-12.
[Parts of 2 or 3 daily strips per page; a few panels are re-arranged and a few are omitted.
Some dates are completely dropped: December 21, 25, 28 and January 8.]
- From Phantom daily strips (King Features Syndicate) 1944-12-18 - 1944-12-23, 1944-12-25 - 1944-12-30, 1945-01-01 - 1945-01-06 and 1945-01-08 - 1945-01-12.
Indexer Notes
Splash page drawn by ? artist.
[no title indexed]
The Katzenjammer Kids / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Harold Knerr (credited as Knerr)
- Pencils
- Harold Knerr (credited as Knerr) (signed as Knerr)
- Inks
- Harold Knerr (credited as Knerr) (signed as Knerr)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Chust as regular as de sun in der morning...
- Genre
- humor; children
- Reprints
-
in Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #5 (April 1951) - Newspaper strip reprint from 1946.
-
[no title indexed]
Jungle Jim / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Alex Raymond (credited)
- Pencils
- Alex Raymond (credited)
- Inks
- Alex Raymond (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Dzam's house. You, stay,' Dzam offers. Jim smiles...
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Reprints
- Newspaper strip reprints modified to fit comic book format.
Daniel Boone
Fighting Americans / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Drake Williams (credited)
- Pencils
- C. Blaker (credited)
- Inks
- C. Blaker (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; western-frontier
[no title indexed]
Teddy and Sitting Bull / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm the census taker, son...
- Genre
- children; humor; domestic
Not Seeing is Deceiving
Blondie / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Chic Young (credited)
- Pencils
- Chic Young (credited)
- Inks
- Chic Young (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; domestic
The Witch Doctor of Wanchi
Brick Bradford / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- William Ritt
- Pencils
- Clarence Gray (signed as Clarence Gray)
- Inks
- Clarence Gray (signed as Clarence Gray)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hope this stuff burns easily!
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Synopsis
- After giving his disguise as witch doctor to Sandy and finding himself still surrounded by the savages, Brick sets fire to the Wanchi Village as a means of diverting the natives' attention while he makes a break for the sacred cavern.
- Reprints
- Newspaper reprint from 1946 modified to fit comic book format.
[no title indexed]
Pete the Tramp / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wot the sam hill are you up to?
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- Newspaper reprint from 1943.
Indexer Notes
On back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Phantom -
1.
Double For A Princess
The Phantom -
2.
["Chust as regular as de sun in der morning..."]
The Katzenjammer Kids -
3.
["'Dzam's house. You, stay,' Dzam offers. Jim smiles..."]
Jungle Jim -
4.
Daniel Boone
Fighting Americans -
5.
["I'm the census taker, son..."]
Teddy and Sitting Bull -
6.
Not Seeing is Deceiving
Blondie -
7.
The Witch Doctor of Wanchi
Brick Bradford -
8.
Trying to Smoke a Gas Pipe
Daffydoodles -
9.
["Wot the sam hill are you up to?"]
Pete the Tramp
This issue was modified by, among others
- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Bill Devine
- Daniel Thingvold
- Richard Thomson
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- Len Wolinsky
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