Jack Armstrong #13

(September 1949)

Did You Know? (Table of Contents: 1)

Sports Shorts / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Phil Berube (signed)

Inks

Phil Berube (signed)

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

non-fiction; sports

Characters

Babe Ruth; Bob Feller; Gene Tunney; Hans Kolehmainen; Man o' War (horse)

Synopsis

Five sport facts.

Keywords

baseball; boxing; horse racing; marathon; Olympics

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Black and red.

Message from the Past (Table of Contents: 2)

Jack Armstrong / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

Bill Elder

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

adventure

Characters

Jack Armstrong; Jim Fairfield; Billy Fairfield

Indexer Notes

Inks credit from Ger Apeldoorn via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8698).

The Case That Hung by a Hair (Table of Contents: 3)

Vic Hardy's Crime Lab / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Vic Hardy

Deadline for Death! (Table of Contents: 4)

Jack Armstrong / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

Bill Elder

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

adventure

Characters

Jack Armstrong; Jim Fairfield; Billy Fairfield; Betty Fairfield; Mike O'Hara

Synopsis

Mike O'Hara has contracted with Harry Durant's mob to borrow oil-drilling equipment. If he doesn't strike oil in six months, Durrant gets his property. As the deadline nears, O'Hara is near striking oil and Durrant wants to make sure he doesn't do it before the deadline.

Keywords

dynamite; oil drilling

Indexer Notes

Splash panel is the same as cover. Inks credit from Ger Apeldoorn via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8698).

Enemy of the Outlaws - Burt Mossman (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1.833 pages (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Burt Mossman; Augustine Chacon; Bart Alvord; Billy Stiles

Synopsis

Arizona Ranger Burt Mossman rides undercover with rustlers to gather evidence against them.

Keywords

Arizona Rangers; Mexico; rustlers

Indexer Notes

Text story with no illustration.

Play Baseball in your Home Now! (Table of Contents: 6)

Casey on the Mound / advertisement / 0.167 page (report information)

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Pencils

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Inks

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Ad for a tabletop baseball game: Casey on the Mound. $2.98 postpaid from Rudolf Field, New York, N.Y.

The Initiation (Table of Contents: 7)

Billy Fairfield's Cartoons of his Own Misdaventures / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Vic Herman

Inks

Vic Herman

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

humor

Characters

Billy Fairfield; Principal Elmer Q. Fuddy

Synopsis

The Lettermen's Club is planning an initiation ceremony and the principal gets caught in the middle of it.

Keywords

high school; inititation; lettermen's club

Lou Boudreau (Table of Contents: 8)

Wheaties; General Mills / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Characters

Lou Boudreau

Synopsis

Profile of Lou Boudreau, player-manager of the Cleveland Indians, 1948 World Series champs.

Keywords

baseball; Cleveland Indians

Indexer Notes

Ad for Wheaties, "Breakfast of Champions," breakfast cereal. General Mills, Inc.

Can You Find the Secret Clues to Monark's Popularity? (Table of Contents: 9)

Monark Bicycles / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Ad for 1949 Monark Super Deluxe bicycle. Monark Silver King, Inc., Chicago, Ill.

The Automobile Race from New York to Paris (Table of Contents: 10)

Sports Shorts / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Phil Berube

Inks

Phil Berube

Colors

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Letters

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Genre

sports

Characters

George Schuster

Synopsis

Summary of a 1908 auto race from New York to Paris, via San Francisco and Siberia.

Keywords

1908; auto racing; Paris

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Black and red.

One of These Swell Magazines Is Just for You (Table of Contents: 11)

Parents' Magazine Press / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Promo, with mail-in coupon, for subscriptions to True Comics; Polly; Calling All Kids; Tex Granger; Calling All Girls; and Varsity magazine. Only color is yellow background.