National Comics
#52
(February 1946)
Quality Comics,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1945-12-05
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- George Brenner
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1945, New Series, Vol. 40, No. 4.
[The Jinx]
The Barker / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Characters
- The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; The Jinx (first appearance, villain)
Indexer Notes
Writer credit formerly "Klaus Nordling".
[The Case of Old Man Hogin]
Sally O'Neil Policewoman / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sally O'Neil; Old Man Hogin (first appearance, villain); Mr. Davis (first appearance); Miss Avery (first appearance); Mrs. Douglas (first appearance)
[no title indexed]
Salty Waters / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Just wait'll the professor sees what I brought him back from the Central Pacific!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Salty Waters; Professor
- Synopsis
- Salty brings back a "ja-do-do" bird egg, only to have the Professor say the bird's been extinct for 108 years. Nobody told the egg, and it hatches.
Indexer Notes
This is the same premise as the "Big Top" story in Feature Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #99 (June 1946), except in that story it was a "prehistoric flying lizard's egg."
The Winner!
Quicksilver / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Quicksilver [Max]; Socker Sampson (first appearance); Heavy (first appearance, villain); Galdo (first appearance, villain); their gang (first appearance, villain)
[Admiral Bilge's Plan]
Intellectual Amos / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; children
- Characters
- Intellectual Amos; Admiral Bilge (first appearance, villain); Phineas Demi-John (first appearance, villain)
[no title indexed]
Lassie / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wish we had another dog at our house!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lassie; Laddie; Roger; Roberta; Agatha Fitzbully; Mr. Fitzbully
- Synopsis
- Lassie buys a monkey for a pet. Havoc results.
Indexer Notes
Roberta is back to being Lassie's sister in this issue.
[The Wrong Whistler]
Whistler / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- The Whistler [Mallory Drake]; A. Biddle (first appearance); The Boss (first appearance, villain); Max (first appearance, villain); another hood (first appearance, villain)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Carnival of Laughs!
The Barker -
1.
[The Jinx]
The Barker -
2.
[The Case of Old Man Hogin]
Sally O'Neil Policewoman -
3.
["Just wait'll the professor sees what I brought him back from the Central Pacific!"]
Salty Waters -
4.
The Winner!
Quicksilver -
5.
[Zinnia and Stinky]
Windy Breeze -
6.
[Admiral Bilge's Plan]
Intellectual Amos -
7.
["I wish we had another dog at our house!"]
Lassie -
8.
The Agrilistas
-
9.
[The Wrong Whistler]
Whistler -
10.
Somewhere Off the Coast of Japan
Destroyer 171
This issue was modified by, among others
- Gregory Fischer
- Del Gruber
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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