Headline Comics #v1#1 (1)

(February 1943)

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

Junior Rangers / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Binder (signed)

Pencils

Jack Binder (signed)

Inks

Jack Binder ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased...

Characters

Junior Rangers [Smokey; Roger; Chan; etc.] (first appearance)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Animal Crackers / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Buster Green

Pencils

Buster Green

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You say you're 236 years old?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Cliff Gordon the Wonder Boy / comic story / 7.5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Fred Bell ?

Inks

Fred Bell ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Just as necessity is the mother of invention, so will a country's need...

Characters

Cliff Gordon (first appearance)

Indexer Notes

Tentative art ID from JVJ index card attached to online scanned version: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=25126

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Happy and Scrappy / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ken Browne (credited)

Inks

Ken Browne

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gee, Scrappy - I wish I was old enough to join the army...

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Happy Day (first appearance); Scrappy (first appearance); Mom Day

Synopsis

Happy and his dog Scrappy collect scrap for the war effort.

Keywords

World War II

Indexer Notes

JVJ index card attached to online scanned version says Ken Browne is aka Terry Gilkison.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Little Johnny Doolittle / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Zere

Inks

Al Zere

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Crime rears its ugly head in the presence of...

Genre

children; crime

Characters

Little Johnny Doolittle (first appearance); Mother Doolittle; Elmer Doolittle; Lumpy Moran; Mr. Schultz; Lester Clinton; Mr. McCabe; May Sherman; Tom; Mr. Rogers

Synopsis

Young Johnny solves a murder and robbery.

Grandfather Clock (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Crest Wood

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Perry Allen / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lou Ferstadt

Inks

Lou Ferstadt

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Swashbuckling Yankee adventurers they are...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Perry Allen (first appearance; Pan-American adventurer); Don Powers (his friend); Guido Paulo; Manuel

Synopsis

Perry and his pal Don run into a Fifth Columnist in the jungles of Brazil.

Indexer Notes

Art ID from JVJ index card attached to online scanned version.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Private Messkit / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Blaine (credited)

Pencils

Al Zere

Inks

Al Zere

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Huh! 48 hour pass and not a dime to my name!

Genre

humor; military

Characters

Private Messkit (first appearance)

Indexer Notes

The byline is "Blaine" and this is writer Willis Blaine, according to Bails.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Buck Sanders / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It takes all kinds to make the world.

Genre

children

Characters

Buck Sanders; Fatty; Percy; Mr. Sanders; Geezle; Gorilla; The Mighty Midget; Sgt. Cork

Synopsis

Buck and his friends foil the Mighty Midget, a Fifth Columnist crook trying to steal airplane plans.

Indexer Notes

app. between PRIZE COMICS #28 / 29

Calling All Readers! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Boy's Life of General MacArthur (Table of Contents: 11)

Douglas MacArthur / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Binder ?

Inks

Jack Binder ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; biography

Characters

Douglas MacArthur

Synopsis

Biography of General Douglas MacArthur.

Indexer Notes

Art strongly resembles the signed Jack Binder war-hero bio story in issue 2. The JVJ index cards attached to the online scanned versions indicates this may be Binder shop work.