Headline Comics
#v1#5 (5)
(Fall 1943)
Prize,
1943 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-07-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- American Boys' Comics, Inc.
- Editing
- Samuel Bierman
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 4.
[no title indexed]
Junior Rangers / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The enslaved people of France...
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Junior Rangers
Indexer Notes
Credit suggested by Bails' Who's Who.
[no title indexed]
Animal Crackers / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Darn the tin shortage!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
Cliff Gordon / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The enemy was clever.
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Cliff Gordon
Indexer Notes
A wild guess from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. He also has Kiefer as a wild guess, but only the boy's face on last page has a remote resemblance.
[no title indexed]
Private Messkit / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- W. Jourdain [as Blaine] (signed)
- Inks
- W. Jourdain [as Blaine] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pay day, you guys!
- Genre
- humor; war
- Characters
- Private Messkit
Indexer Notes
last appearance
Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. has the info that this Blaine signing actually is W. Jourdain.
Jourdain is aka Al Zere.
[no title indexed]
Tom Morgan / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who has not heard of the glories of ancient Egypt?
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Tom Morgan
Indexer Notes
Credits suggested by Bails' Who's Who.
The Stolen Paste Diamonds
Little Johnny Doolittle / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- children; spy; war
- Characters
- Little Johnny Doolittle
Indexer Notes
last appearance
Credits suggested by Bails' Who's Who.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Junior Rangers -
1.
["The enslaved people of France..."]
Junior Rangers -
2.
["Darn the tin shortage!"]
Animal Crackers -
3.
["The enemy was clever."]
Cliff Gordon -
4.
["Pay day, you guys!"]
Private Messkit -
5.
["Who has not heard of the glories of ancient Egypt?"]
Tom Morgan -
6.
Bread and Bullets
-
7.
The Stolen Paste Diamonds
Little Johnny Doolittle -
8.
["Hello Happy -- I'm meeting the guys over in the ball field..."]
Happy and Scrappy -
9.
["Scientists say that the upper waters of the Amazon..."]
Perry Allen
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steinar Ådland
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Jason Sacks
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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