(February-March 1945)

Rural Home, 1945 Series
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Volume
?
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Rural Home Publishing Co.
Printer
World Color Press
Editing
L. B. Cole (editor)

Issue Notes

Printed at 420 DeSoto Ave, St. Louis Missouri. (World Color Press). Publisher's Address: 155 N Clark St Chicago, IL

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
L. B. Cole (signed as L. B. Cole)
Inks
L. B. Cole (signed as L. B. Cole)
Colors
L. B. Cole ?

Genre
adventure
Reprints
Keywords
candle; fairies; surrealism; tragedy and comedy masks

Name Your Price for Slaughter (Table of Contents: 1)

Tim Dolan / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rudy Palais (signed)
Inks
Rudy Palais (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
detective-mystery
Characters
Tim Dolan; Emory Green; Silver John Fallow (villain)
Synopsis
Silver John Farrow kidnaps an engraver to make counterfeit money.

Adventure of the Exploding Spaghetti (Table of Contents: 2)

Bonnie / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Cooper (see notes)
Inks
Cooper (see notes)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Characters
Bonnie Heather; Mr. Glotz; Junior Van Nuyser

Indexer Notes

Credit suggested by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. Additional comment: "not Sam Cooper".

I Don't Want To Die (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Inks
Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
crime
Characters
Ethan Cavendish; Gregory Nixon; Lawson; Gladys Cavendish
Synopsis
A despairing man pays to have himself murdered, only to have his wife mysteriously return on the night the murder is to take place.

Count Boris Strikes Back (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Game of Death (Table of Contents: 5)

Murder on Park Avenue with Calvin Colt / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

There's One Born Every Minute (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
biography
Characters
P. T. Barnum
Synopsis
Biography of P.T. Barnum

The Touch That Failed (Table of Contents: 7)

Harry Houdini / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Damon and Pythias (Table of Contents: 8)

Heroes of Legend / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Don Rico (signed)
Inks
Don Rico (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction
Synopsis
Story of Damon and Pythias.

Escape into Darkness (Table of Contents: 9)

Driftwood / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Inks
Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Characters
Norman Prince

Legend of the Gordian Knot (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Death of You (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
L. B. Cole (signed)
Inks
L. B. Cole (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Jerry Todd; Hal Sawyer
Synopsis
Two boys share an old jalopy which everyone considers extremely dangerous. They finally sell it for scrap metal before joining the military.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Name Your Price for Slaughter
    Tim Dolan
  3. 2. Adventure of the Exploding Spaghetti
    Bonnie
  4. 3. I Don't Want To Die
  5. 4. Count Boris Strikes Back
  6. 5. Game of Death
    Murder on Park Avenue with Calvin Colt
  7. 6. There's One Born Every Minute
  8. 7. The Touch That Failed
    Harry Houdini
  9. 8. Damon and Pythias
    Heroes of Legend
  10. 9. Escape into Darkness
    Driftwood
  11. 10. Legend of the Gordian Knot
  12. 11. Death of You
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Peter Croome
  • Craig Delich
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Del Gruber
  • Bob Hughes
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore