Digital Comic Museum - National Comics 059


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Issue: #59
Published: April 1947, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Birdman
Genre:	Adventure Humor
Characters:	The Barker [Carnie Callahan]

Comic Story (11 pages)	The Birdman
Genre:	Adventure Humor
Characters:	The Barker [Carnie Callahan] The Birdman [Denoso] (first Appearance Villain Death)

Comic Story (1 page)	What's Opera?
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Windy Breeze

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Diamond Bracelet Cat Collar
Synopsis:	Roberta's old friend Dandina visits and says she brought Lassie a present. Lassie thinks it's a diamond bracelet she finds in Dandina's luggage, and puts it on her cat as a collar. The cat runs away and Lassie mobilises the neighbourhood children to find it. Dandina's fiance Pablo, who gave her the bracelet, arrives. The cat comes back but the police discover the bracelet contains stolen jewels: Pablo is a crook.
Genre:	Humor Children
Characters:	Lassie Laddie Roberta Dandina Pablo Pimenez [Bogus Bill Sleeko]

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Smiling Swede
Synopsis:	Sally parks her car at a lot and comes back to find out it's been sold.
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Sally O'Neil The Smiling Swede (first Appearance Villain) Max (first Appearance Other Crooks (first Appearance Villains)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Admiral Bilge and the Pot of Gold
Genre:	Adventure Humor Children
Characters:	Intellectual Amos Admiral Bilge (villain) Phineas Demi-John (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Mr. Bones
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Steve Wood Grimm J. Bones (first Appearance Villain)

Text Story (2 pages)	The Test
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Haunted Doll House
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Granny Gumshoe Dr. Lucifer Shrinkem (first Appearance Villain) Droop (first Appearance

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Australian Magic Murders
Synopsis:	A man named Jonas is exiled in Australia, where he earns a fortune, and then returns to kill his former partners with his boomerang skills, which he passed off as "magic".
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Quicksilver [Max] Garroby (introduction) Jonas (villain, Introduction) Simon Hidge (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (1 page)	Sgt McMayhem
Genre:	Humor

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