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Issue: National Comics #51

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Publication Date: December 1945

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Issues: #51 of 75 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand: Quality Comic Group

Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines

On Sale Date: 10/05/1945

Volume:

Pages: 60

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): George Brenner

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.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (11 total)

The Missing Link

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Lena; Major Midge; Tiny

First Line: The Barker finds the Missing Link in a chain of strange events!

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The Missing Link

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Callahan]; Madame Futura (first appearance, a fortune teller); Shali (first appearance, a snake charmer); The Missing Link (first appearance, villain)

First Line: Ah-- I see it approaching in the near future...

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Pages: 11

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Salty Waters; Gladys

First Line: And I'll meetcha on the beach in five minutes, Gladys!

Synopsis: Salty tells his girlfriend Gladys about his exploits in the Pacific.

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Pages: 1

Smash It Anyway!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Quicksilver [Max]; Winslow Rigger (first appearance, villain); James Eagle (first appearance)

First Line: You may not be able to see your peril---

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Pages: 7

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Windy Breeze; Sam

First Line: Heck! The Tigers are playing today and I'm broke!

Synopsis: Windy comes up with a scheme to get money to go the ball game.

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[untitled]

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Genres: childrens, humorous

Character(s): Lassie; Roberta; Roger; Laddie

First Line: Ooh, look, Roberta!

Synopsis: Lassie's new neighbor is an inventor. She "helps" him out.

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Pages: 7

Notes: In previous stories, Roberta is Lassie's sister, but in this story Roger says she is Lassie's "Aunt Roberta." Also, Roger and Roberta appear to be married in this story, whereas they were just dating in previous issues.

Soup Simpson's Last Blast

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Genres: mystery

Character(s): Sally O'Neil; Soup Simpson (first appearance, villain, death); Boris Meloff (first appearance, villain); Lefty (first appearance, villain)

First Line: The luckiest day in policewoman Sally O'Neil's life was the day...

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Pages: 8

Notes: Pencils and inks previously credited to Gene Fawcette.

Kidnapping at Sea

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Genres: adventure, childrens, humorous

Character(s): Intellectual Amos; The Chief and his gang (first appearance, villains); Miss Venbilt (first appearance)

First Line: Just a little boy... nothing unusual about him except...

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Pages: 6

Strange Escape

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Genres: crime

Character(s): Jules; Banning; Judge Bekins; Crandell; Holmes

First Line: For more days than he could remember...

Synopsis: Jules, a prison inmate, attempts an escape and then revenge on those who put him in prison.

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Pages: 2

Notes: A promo ad for National Comics appears in the lower corner of the second page.

Trap for the Whistler

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Genres: mystery, superhero

Character(s): The Whistler [Mallory Drake]; Mac Shane; Ambers (first appearance, villain)

First Line: When police reporter Mallory Drake became the dread Whistler...

Synopsis: Editor Shane plans a trap for the Whistler and assigns Drake to cover the story.

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The Three Entertainers

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Genres: war

Character(s): Commander Blake; First Officer Conroy; Jack Hallam (first appearance); Jim Maulsby (first appearance); Bette D'Arcy (first appearance); The Japanese (villains)

First Line: It started out to be less than a routine assignment for the...

Synopsis: The destroyer Pawnee has been ordered to transport a troupe of entertainers to Paasuvi.

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Pages: 7

Notes: The three named entertainers are based on Jack Carson, Bing Crosby and Bette Davis.