Digital Comic Museum - Popular Comics 044


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Issue: #44
Published: October 1939, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Contents copyright: 1938 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.; 1938, 1939 by NEA, Inc.; 1939 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.; 1939 by R. S. Callender; 1939 by Phillips Lord, Inc.; and 1939 by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 427676. Copyright given to Stephen Slesinger, Inc.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	The Masked Pilot

Comic Story (6 pages)	The McCoy Gang! Slot Machine Racket Murderers.
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Detective Chief Cal Yorke Detective Len Gates Detective Johnny Marvin Officer Tom Baker (death) Officer Larry McMillan (death) W. J. Kuehl Ralph Hadley Ned Wade Mrs. Jarvis The McCoy Gang [Bob McCoy (villain) Eddie McCoy (villain, Death) Nick Ryan (villain)] Soapy (villain)

Cartoon (1 page)	Born Thirty Years Too Soon; The Cruel World
Genre:	Humor

Cartoon (1 page)	Heroes are Made-Not Born; Born Thirty Years Too Soon
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (4 pages)
Genre:	Adventure Aviation
Characters:	The Masked Pilot Tom Stephan (villain)

Activity (1 page)

Popular Crossword Puzzles by Our Readers

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Herky Herky's Mother

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Mystery of Mr. Wong [Part 2]
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Mr. Wong Professor Janney Brandon Edwards (death) Valerie Edwards Peter Harrison Ivan Strogonoff Drina

Cartoon (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Text Story (2 pages)	The Flying Wolf!
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	John Morley Jeff Morley Kitty Morley

Comic Story (4 pages)	G-Men vs the Living Masks
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Larry Lane Miss Walker Blinky Mathews (villain) Dr. Toro (villain)

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Herky Honey (Herky's Sister)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Genre:	Adventure Aviation
Characters:	Tailspin Tommy [Tommy Tomkins] Skeets Milligan Betty Lou Barnes Paul Smith Professor Otto Bumgartner Miss Stanley Jeems Mr. Dunforth Reverend Meek Mrs. Wilson Mr. Plotz Mr. Trevor Mr. Holt Slade

In-house Column (2 pages)

Gang Busters' Crime Clues Contest

Text Story (4 pages)
Synopsis:	Ben Hur's mother and sister are released from prison.
Genre:	Historical
Characters:	Ben Hur Iras Messala Malluch Ilderim Thord Pontius Pilate Tirzah Ben Hur's Mother Amrah Simonides Esther

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Herky Honey Noodles Nelson

Comic Story (4 pages)
Synopsis:	Tex Thorne finally captures Clamp Hackett and his gang.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Zane Grey]
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Tex Thorne Topaz (a Horse) Jane Hoskins Jimmy Hoskins Jerky Jack Parsons Clamp Hackett (villain)

Comic Story (4 pages)	Episode 7
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	The Hurricane Kids [Alan Burnham Dave Burnham] Dawson (corpse)

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Anthropomorphic-funny Animals

Text Article (2 pages)
Featuring:	Popular Stamp Club
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (4 pages)
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Bronc Peeler Pete Babs Dalton Willie Judge Avery Abe Dalton (a Skeleton) Spade Carson (villain) Bat Wilson (villain)

Cartoon (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Anthropomorphic-funny Animals
Characters:	Rudy

Comic Story (4 pages)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Shark Egan Ace O'Doul Mary McDermot Kanaka Lew Mai Ti Angkar Red Mack (villain)

Cartoon (1 page)	Heroes Are Made Not Born; Why Mothers Get Gray
Genre:	Humor

Cartoon (1 page)	No Road Signs; Flops
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (4 pages)	At the World's Fair
Genre:	Humor Anthropomorphic-funny Animals
Characters:	Penguin Pete Pudgie

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