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Powerhouse Pepper Comics #1

Marvel · Series began 1943 · 1943

Dates

Cover date
1943
On sale
September 17, 1943
Pages
60

Editions and covers

Creators

script: Basil Wolverton, Ed Wheelanpencils: Basil Wolverton, Art Helfant, George Marko, Lou Paige, Ed Wheelan, Ray Gillinks: Basil Wolverton, Art Helfant, George Marko, Lou Paige, Ed Wheelan, Ray Gillletters: Basil Wolverton

Stories

  • Untitled · 16 pages

    At the Smother Brothers circus Powerhouse Pepper grapples with strongman Russell Muscle and his crooked barker partner when they refuse to pay him for accomplishing an impossible feat of strength.

  • Untitled · 8 pages

    Powerhouse Pete saves a bunch of dairy cows from getting rustled.

  • Untitled · 6 pages

    Banking magnate 'Pop' Corn has opened his house to all sorts of nutty characters and groups which has caused him a lot of stress. His solution is to become a 'bum' in the park.

  • Foolish Faces - Photos of a Few Famous Fatheads and Freaks · 3 pages
  • The Queer Case of the Crushed Conk · 1 pages
  • Untitled · 8 pages

    Powerhouse Pepper catches a couple of oil thieves and a Nazi submarine.

Characters

Powerhouse Pepper

Reprinted in

Intense! (1993), The Basil Wolverton Reader (2003), The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (2009)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).