National Comics #47

(April 1945)

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

Volto from Mars; Grape Nuts Cereal / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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A shark! Hey! Look out!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Volto

Indexer Notes

Advertisement for Grape Nuts Cereal done in comic form featuring Volto from Mars.

Inside front cover. Includes a blurb below the Volto advertisement for Hop Harrigan radio show on the Blue Network Monday through Friday. Indicia at the bottom of the page.

[Samson Smith vs. Mighty Moose] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Barker / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Millard (sourced)

Pencils

Klaus Nordling (credited, signed)

Inks

Klaus Nordling (credited, signed)

Colors

?

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?

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A grudge-fight between the strongest men in the world is something for circus fans to remember!

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Colonel Land (Mammoth Circus owner); Lena; Major Midge; Tiny Tim; Samson Smith; Cappy Kane (villain); Mighty Moose (villain, introduction); Duke (villain, introduction); Runt (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

Cappy Kane is back as his strongman, the Mighty Moose, is pitted against Mammoth Circus's own Samson Smith.

Indexer Notes

Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling".

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

Salty Waters / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bernard Dibble

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Bernard Dibble

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Bernard Dibble

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?

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?

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Let the other guys roam all they want...

Genre

humor; military

Characters

Salty Waters

Synopsis

U.S. Navy sailor Salty thinks he's been abandoned on a Pacific island.

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

Lassie / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bernard Dibble

Pencils

Bernard Dibble

Inks

Bernard Dibble

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?

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?

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Oh, Lassie, look! Don't you wish we could see the circus?

Feature Logo

Lassie and Laddie

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Lassie (first appearance); Laddie (first appearance); Roberta (first appearance); Roger (first appearance)

Synopsis

Lassie and her friend Laddie want to attend the circus, but Lassie's older sister Roberta has a date with Roger and can't take them.

[Sally Haunts a Ghost] (Table of Contents: 5)

Sally O'Neil Policewoman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Gene Fawcette (signed as Fawcette)

Inks

Gene Fawcette (signed as Fawcette)

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Candles flicker and cast strange, eerie shadows!

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Sally O'Neil; Mrs. Vanderdough (first appearance); Nick the Chiseler (first appearance; villain); three other crooks (first appearance; villains; one dies)

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #114 (2020)

Indexer Notes

Policewoman portion of the feature name does not appear as part of the feature name in this story.

[Swami Joe and the Counterfeiters] (Table of Contents: 6)

Intellectual Amos / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

André LeBlanc ?

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André LeBlanc

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André LeBlanc

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?

Genre

adventure; humor; children

Characters

Intellectual Amos; Swami Joe (first appearance; villain); Silas P. Pinkbottom (first appearance; villain); other two Varx Brothers (first appearance; villaisn)

[Helium Tires] (Table of Contents: 7)

Windy Breeze / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Cole

Pencils

Jack Cole

Inks

Jack Cole

Colors

?

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?

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It's foolish to pay twenty bucks to have my furniture moved when I can do it myself!

Genre

humor

Characters

Windy Breeze

[The Vengeance of Boss Bumble] (Table of Contents: 8)

Quicksilver / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Pencils

Bill Quackenbush

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Bill Quackenbush

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Vengeance was the object for which Boss Bumble lived!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Quicksilver [Max]; Boss Bumble (first appearance; villain); Avie (first appearance; villain; death); Romby (first appearance; villain; death); Dirk (first appearance; villain; death)

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #105 (2017)

Motorized Dragonflies (Table of Contents: 9)

text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

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typeset

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Southern California's giant aircraft industry has pups-or more accurately, perhaps, chicks.

Genre

non-fiction

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

Busy Arnold (credited as Everett M. Arnold)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Sworn to and subscribed to Louis J. Rubiansky on September 28, 1944.

[Big Joe Ryan and the Silver Bracelet] (Table of Contents: 11)

Chic Carter / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Vern Henkel (credited as Vernon Henkel) (signed as Vernon Henkel)

Pencils

Vern Henkel (credited as Vernon Henkel) (signed as Vernon Henkel)

Inks

Vern Henkel (credited as Vernon Henkel) (signed as Vernon Henkel)

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?

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Here's the story on Big Joe Ryan!

Genre

detective-mystery; superhero

Characters

Chic Carter; Chic's newspaper city editor; Big Joe Ryan (villain, introduction); Louella (villain, introduction); Blackie (villain, Ryan's chauffeur, introduction)

Synopsis

Chic writes a story on Big Joe Ryan and immediately is confronted by a lady wanting him to go to a certain jewelry store and pick up a silver bracelet, and upon delivery to her, he is to get a cool $500! But Ryan meets up with Chic and somehow the bracelet disappears before Carter can deliver it... and Carter is arrested for robbery. But Chic discovers that he has been played for a sucker with a phony, frozen mercury bracelet, and thus seeks out Ryan.

Reprints

• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #109 (2018)

Indexer Notes

Last appearance.

Lifeboat No. 1 (Table of Contents: 12)

Destroyer 171 / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Al Camy ?

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Al Camy ?

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?

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First Officer Conroy and part of the fighting crew of valiant Destroyer 171 manned a ship's lifeboat...

Genre

military; war

Characters

Commander Blake; First Officer Conroy; The Japanese (villains)

Be a Radio Technician (Table of Contents: 13)

National Radio Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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typeset

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Get into a busy field with a bright peacetime future

Characters

J. E. Smith (photograph); John Jerry (photograph); A. J. Forehner (photograph)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

Advertisement for the training equipment and book from the National Radio Institute (of Washington, D. C.).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

MoToR Book / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Auto repair men! Are you short-handed for mechanics?

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

An advertisement for the auto repair manual from MoToR (of New York, New York).