Dickie Dare #4

([December 15, 1942])

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Dickie Dare / comic story / 34 pages (report information)

Script

Coulton Waugh

Pencils

Coulton Waugh

Inks

Coulton Waugh

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here it is, Doc! Th' treasure--

Genre

adventure; children

Characters

Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Wags; Doctor Murdock

Synopsis

Dickie, Dan and Dr. Murdock have located sunken chests of gold. When they raise the chests, Captain Yakovac and Hans cut their cables, stranding Dickie and Dan on the ocean floor. They tie up Murdock, but he breaks free, smashes the engine and swims for his boat "the Dickie Dare." He locates Dickie and Dan and pulls them to the surface just in time. An airplane belonging to Anise la Tour (a beautiful voodoo priestess) takes them to Haiti, leaving the Doctor on his boat. Dickie escapes with the help of a Haitian boy and finds the Doctor.

Reprints

• from Famous Funnies (Eastern Color, 1934 series) #76 (November 1940)
which is reprinted
• from Dickie Dare daily and Sunday ? (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press])
• from daily Dickie Dare (Associated Press) ?

Indexer Notes

Lettering is unusually large and has probably been redone.

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Scorchy Smith / comic story / 30 pages (report information)

Script

Noel Sickles

Pencils

Noel Sickles

Inks

Noel Sickles

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Ah! This is the life!

Genre

adventure; aviation

Characters

Scorchy Smith; "Heinie" Himmelstoss

Synopsis

Scorchy and his band of aviators have been hired to defend the government of Huaca. Scorchy captures the rebel leader Amara and his beautiful daughter, Tanta, who is a cabaret dancer and spy. Scorchy saves the German, Himmelstoss, who was flying for the rebels, and he joins up with Scorchy. Scorchy wants to buy an expensive plane and Himmelstoss crashes performing a movie stunt. Scorchy visits his old girlfriend, Betty, and finds that she is going to marry an Eastern twit. Rufus Krug, a shady timber baron, hires Scorchy to fly him to Birch Bay, where he is trying to steal timberland.

Reprints

• from daily Scorchy Smith (Associated Press) June 17 to November 8, 1935 All the dialogue has been greatly simplified and has been relettered in a much larger size. In some panels more than 40 words have been eliminated. The first 3 pages have 5 tiers, which are each a full daily strip. The remaining pages have 4 tiers. This larger size makes it necessary to move one panel to another tier, to drop a panel entirely, or to slice off part of a long panel.
• in Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles (IDW, 2008) p. 267 to 298 (original unaltered strips)