Dates
- Cover date
- December 1947
- On sale
- October 3, 1947
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Masked Mayhem · 11 pages
Doc and Sniffer buy a boxer's contract and then find out he can't box.
- Department Store Story · 6 pages
- Untitled · 6 pages
The Jester investigates the death of a local eatery owner, and when Lulu, a witness to the murder, gives varying descriptions of the killer to Detective McGinty, Chuck Lane smells a rat, two of them.
- Untitled · 4 pages
Lady Luck is invited to a special banquet by the Montrose Alumnae Association to receive an honorary degree. The problem is that the host has taken ill and has decided that Brenda Banks should take over and be the one to introduce Lady Luck.
- Shipmate's Story · 6 pages
- Big Bee Business · Midnight · 2 pages
- Bubble Gum Blues · 6 pages
In a bubble gum bubble-blowing radio contest, Spunky and Pug cheat by using a hot air hose to blow a huge bubble. The contest sponsor gives Spunky two boxes of bubble gum to practice for the next night's show. The next night, on the air, Spunky hands the announcer a note saying he practiced so much he has lockjaw.
- The Lady of the Pearls! · 6 pages
Black X and Batu come across two ruffians trying to load a coffin into a truck. The men flee, and the coffin is taken to Black X's apartment where a man named Graspon wishes to buy it for $20,000. When X refuses the offer and Graspon leaves, X opens the coffin to discover the living but unconscious body of a beautiful girl. Graspon meanwhile goes out to hire thugs to forcibly take the coffin and contents away from X.
Reprinted in
Men of Mystery Comics (1999), Black X (1950)