Crown Comics
#18
(May 1949)
McCombs,
1945 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- McCombs Publications Inc.
- Editing
- ?
Seatcovers
Gaylark Products / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Get De Luxe Seatcovers way below retail.
Kid Safety Says Play Safe!
Harvey Comics Group / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- How to have fun with the bicycle by playing safe.
Bobby Shelby and His Pals
The Shelby Cycle Company / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Characters
- Bobby Shelby
- Synopsis
- Half page comic strip with Shelby bicycles.
Adventure in El Chico
Vic Cutter / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Frank Bolle ? (plot); Leonard Starr ?; Ken Fitch ?
- Pencils
- Frank Bolle (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Bolle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Vic Cutter (detective); Laura Ames (secretary); Major Martinez; Jay Thompson (U.S. agent); Senor Alvaros
- Synopsis
- A U.S. federal agent is killed in his hotel room, and Cutter is going to take his place to find the revolutionary outfit he was tracing.
Indexer Notes
Script credits suggested by Bails' Who's Who.
The Claws of Death
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Denton Bowles (ghost chaser); Roger Sherill; Cecilie Sherill; Anthony DeBleu; The Claw (pirate)
- Synopsis
- The curse of "The Claws of Death" has killed four of the Sherill brides for half a century, and now bride Cecille fears for her life. But Denton Bowles reveals the curse isn't supernatural at all.
Indexer Notes
Faces and movement of figures are all signs of Cataldo.
[no title indexed]
Little Artists' page / activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- These heads were made by using the numbers...
- Synopsis
- Follow the dots and other puzzles with numbers and letters.
Dangerous Flight
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Cadet Jimmy Quentin; Captain James Quentin; Sgt. O'Shaughnessy
- Synopsis
- Adventures at an Air Force training center.
The Tip That Turned the Table
Gillette Bicycle Tires / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Jack; Jane
- Synopsis
- Bicycle contest with winner on Gillette tires.
Indexer Notes
The faces look very much like Anderson's work, with short lines below the outer corner of eyes.
[no title indexed]
Sportopics / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Tom Doerer (signed)
- Pencils
- Tom Doerer (signed)
- Inks
- Tom Doerer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Tom Doerer (signed) ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Basketball...
- Genre
- non-fiction; sports
- Characters
- Ward Lambert
- Synopsis
- A little about basketball.
- Keywords
- basketball
Indexer Notes
The letters are so integrated in the panels that it is most probably Doerer's work all the way.
[no title indexed]
Cartoons and Jokes / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Kirk Stiles; Vic Herman; Ron; La ? (all signed)
- Inks
- Kirk Stiles; Vic Herman; Ron; La ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nancy! Don't tease him!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Many small cartoons and jokes. Not easy to read all the signed names.
Can You Find the Secret Clues
Monark Bicycles / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Sherlock Holmes
- Synopsis
- What is the secret clues to Monark's popularity?
[no title indexed]
Minnie Soo with Little Haha and Tonka / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come on Minnie! Jump on the raft!
- Genre
- humor; children; western-frontier
- Characters
- Minnie Soo; Little Haha; Tonka (great warrior)
- Synopsis
- Minnie and Haha are rafting on the river and stumble upon unfriendly white trappers.
Indexer Notes
Unusually, not signed, but art similar to the rest in this feature.
Call to Action
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Tommy; Buddy
- Synopsis
- Tommy dreams of riding freight trains with a tramp.
[no title indexed]
Voodah / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Ken Fitch ?
- Pencils
- Anthone Cataldo [as AC] (signed)
- Inks
- Anthone Cataldo [as AC] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That's the last of the old chief, Lagha!
- Genre
- jungle
- Characters
- Voodah; Zanzi; Cheeko (monkey); Laga (crooked pretender); Chief Kuala
- Synopsis
- The old chief is dead, and the new one has a dangerous rival.
Indexer Notes
Script credit suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
[no title indexed]
Crown Puzzle Page / activity / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What will happen if you connect the dots..?
- Synopsis
- Follow the dots and other puzzles.
Here They Are Guys...
Reliance / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- The swell Reliance Boy's Wear you want.
They Laughed When I Started to Talk
Fun Parade, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- A book about telling funny jokes.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[The Claws of Death]
-
1.
Seatcovers
Gaylark Products -
2.
Kid Safety Says Play Safe!
Harvey Comics Group -
3.
Bobby Shelby and His Pals
The Shelby Cycle Company -
4.
Adventure in El Chico
Vic Cutter -
5.
The Claws of Death
-
6.
["These heads were made by using the numbers..."]
Little Artists' page -
7.
Dangerous Flight
-
8.
The Tip That Turned the Table
Gillette Bicycle Tires -
9.
["Basketball..."]
Sportopics -
10.
["Nancy! Don't tease him!"]
Cartoons and Jokes -
11.
Can You Find the Secret Clues
Monark Bicycles -
12.
["Come on Minnie! Jump on the raft!"]
Minnie Soo with Little Haha and Tonka -
13.
Call to Action
-
14.
["That's the last of the old chief, Lagha!"]
Voodah -
15.
["What will happen if you connect the dots..?"]
Crown Puzzle Page -
16.
Here They Are Guys...
Reliance -
17.
They Laughed When I Started to Talk
Fun Parade, Inc. -
18.
It "Zips" All the Way Around
Illinois Merchandise Mart -
19.
The New B-B Pak
Daisy B-B Guns
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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