The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog, #16

Published: July-August 1954

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The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #16

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Issue Contents:
The Floating Big Top!
1 page adventure; animal
Credits
Superboy Says: "Don't Give Fire a Place to Start!"
Story 1 1 page advocacy; superhero
Credits
Story Notes

On the inside front cover.

The Floating Big Top!
Story 2 8 pages adventure; animal
Storyline

Danny and Rex perform daring high-wire tricks for charity in a circus floating on a barge. But someone is sabotaging the circus, shooting pellets at the lions to enrage them, setting a fire to the canvas, and even planting a bomb on the paddle wheel! Rex and Danny stop every threat and expose the strong man who lost out on a prize.

Squeeze Play Saves the Day!
Story 3 1 page sports
Animal Champions
Story 4 1 page non-fiction; animal
Story 5 1 page
Monkey Sees, Monkey Does!
Story 6 6 pages animal; detective-mystery
Storyline

Bobo's latest craze is spearfishing with SCUBA gear. But a fellow spearfisher is clubbed to death and there are three suspects. Nobody listens to Bobo, so he swims after a diver and finds an underwater grotto with a Spanish treasure. Bobo dives to avoid getting speared and the Sheriff takes the diver into custody. The dead man refused to split the treasure. Bobo decides to stick to dull checkers. "A fellow can't get killed dead while playing it!"

Story 7 1 page
Strictly from Hunger!
Story 8 1 page non-fiction; animal
Clever Canines
Story 9 2 pages non-fiction; animal
Story 10 1 page
The Day the Sun Vanished
Story 11 8 pages adventure; animal
Storyline

In eastern Tennessee, Danny and Rex accompany Professor Barrett (last seen in "Valley of the Thunder King"). He plans to view a total eclipse of the sun. The local "hillbillies" won't guide them up Big Spooky Mountain, claiming it's haunted, until Rex saves a child from a runaway carriage. Up on the mountain, by night, Rex battles a lynx while the Professor is nabbed by ghosts of Civil War soldiers! Rex bowls them over - three convicts hiding out who found a Civil War stash.

Credits
"Free" Wheeling with Abbott and Costello
Story 12 1 page
Story Notes

On the page between page 5 and page 6 of the previous story sequence.

Story 13 0 pages
Story 14 1 page children

"Gosh, Pud, wasn't it swell of Mom 'n' Pop..."

Credits
Rain or Shine!
Story 15 1 page non-fiction; nature
Credits
Story 16 1 page
Story Notes

Ad for the Schwinn Phantom model.

Featuring World's Finest Comics

Story 17 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 18 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.