Calling All Boys
#13
(September 1947)
Parents' Magazine Press,
1946 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Calling All Boys, Inc.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Info added by Craig Delich (August 6, 2006).
Bing Crosby
Boys' Hero of the Month / text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (Photograph)
- Inks
- ? (Photograph)
- Letters
- Typeset
- Editing
- Kenneth L. Hall
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Inside Front Cover
... Races Against Death
Streaky Smith of Essex High / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Streaky Smith; Mr. Samson; Tommy Samson
- Synopsis
- Streaky is a counselor at the Pinetree Fresh Air
Camp, teaching boys who never had a chance to learn how to swim and paddle a canoe.
Get in the Swim
Coach's Corner / text article / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Kiphuth
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Robert "Bob" Kiphuth
Indexer Notes
Illustrated article about swimming by the Director
of Athletics and coach of the swimming team at
Yale University
[no title indexed]
Hector / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Vic Herman
- Inks
- Vic Herman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look, fellas! Here's how old Hybarr does it.
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Hector Hibble; Mr. Hybarr; Nancy; Mrs. Hibble
Perils of Pauline
Perils of Pauline / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; drama
- Characters
- Pearl White [Betty Hutton]; Mike; Julia
- Synopsis
- Pearl White, queen of the old-time movie serials,'
begins her daredevil career with a traveling troupe of stage players.
Indexer Notes
Adaptation of the 1947 Paramount motion picture
[no title indexed]
Tex Granger / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Roundup time in Railhead finds two huge herds...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Tex Granger; Luke Conway
You're a Magician
activity / 0.66 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
High Swamp
text story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jim Chapman
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Typeset
- Genre
- adventure
The Case of the Hidden Eye
The Adventures of Bigbrain Billy / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Ernie Schroeder
- Pencils
- Ernie Schroeder
- Inks
- Ernie Schroeder
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; teen
- Characters
- Billy; Mayor Hartley
- Synopsis
- "Bigbrain Billy," the smartest boy in the world, puts science on his side as he challenges the ruthless robbers of Midvale's city treasury.
Indexer Notes
Ernie Schroeder identified as writer and artist of this feature by Jerry Bails.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Rustlers' Roundup; Races Against Death]
Tex Granger; Perils of Pauline; Streaky Smith -
1.
Bing Crosby
Boys' Hero of the Month -
2.
... Races Against Death
Streaky Smith of Essex High -
3.
Get in the Swim
Coach's Corner -
4.
["Look, fellas! Here's how old Hybarr does it."]
Hector -
5.
Perils of Pauline
Perils of Pauline -
6.
["Roundup time in Railhead finds two huge herds..."]
Tex Granger -
7.
Mail Call
-
8.
You're a Magician
-
9.
High Swamp
-
10.
The Case of the Hidden Eye
The Adventures of Bigbrain Billy -
11.
Drama on the Highway
Adventures of R.C. and Quickie
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Karl Wilcox
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- Craig Delich
- Per Sandell
- Michael Hoskin
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