Digital Comic Museum - Cannonball Comics 02


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Issue: #2
Published: March 1945, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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. 1.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Adventure Superhero
Characters:	Crash Kid [Rusty Adams]

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	Hobo-Ken plays a prank on a dog, then "rescues" him in order to get a share of the dog's food.
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Hobo-Ken

Comic Story (12 pages)	The Case of the Color-Blind Confessions
Synopsis:	Copyboy Rusty Adams pretends to be a reporter when a pretty girl comes for help for her brother, who she thinks has confessed to a crime he didn't commit.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Crash Kid [Rusty Adams] Pook Nora Nolan Timmy Nolan Butch Malone Dr. Franz Salzmann

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	Office O'Heck arrests a little kid for biting the arm of a man who was trying to steal his lollipop.
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Officer O'Heck

Text Story (1 page)	Jonathan Gets His Man
Featuring:	Crime Crusader
Synopsis:	Killer Morgan kills a judge and impersonates him to set an ambush for Jonathan Jones.
Credits:	Script: Leon Hartman (credited) \| Pencils: ? (illustration) \| Inks: ? (illustration) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Crime Crusader [Jonathan Jones] Kewpie O'Toole Killer Morgan

Comic Story (9 pages)
Synopsis:	Ted keeps failing because he has no self-confidence. Lizzie takes him to her uncle, a magician, who makes Ted think he has a magical power over baseballs.
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Quinlan [as Chas. M. Quinlan] (signed) \| Inks: Charles Quinlan [as Chas. M. Quinlan] (signed)
Genre:	Teen
Characters:	Ted Hardy Lizzie Jones Zelda Horace Miss Prinklepot

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	Mussel-Man breaks into an apartment after he hears a call for help, only to find it was just a radio program.
Genre:	Satire-parody Superhero
Characters:	Mussel-Man

Comic Story (9 pages)
Synopsis:	Thunderbrand goes to Alexandria in his quest for the scepter that will reveal his identity.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Thunderbrand Barbarossa Giacomo Ismail Emir Dorena

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	A soldier takes everything the Japanese can throw at him without batting an eye, but is hurt when a medal is pinned on him.
Genre:	Humor War
Characters:	Hank

Text Story (2 pages)	The Crash Kid Crashes Through
Featuring:	The Crash Kid
Synopsis:	The Crash Kid breaks up a phony investment scheme aimed at old people.
Credits:	Script: Jim Randall (credited) \| Pencils: ? (illustration) \| Inks: ? (illustration)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Crash Kid [Rusty Adams] Pook

Comic Story (12 pages)	The Mystery of the Modern Midas
Synopsis:	Two men send Jonathan Jones and Kewpie out west to collect their earnings in a gold mine from Hal Peters . They collect the money easily, but after they accept a case to find a missing mine inspector; Peters suddenly is anxious for them to leave town.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Crime Crusader [Jonathan Jones] Kewpie O'Toole Hal Peters Diane Winters

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