Sensation Comics, #58

Published: October 1946

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Sensation Comics #58

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Princess Diana
  • Lt. Diana Prince]
  • Olive Norton
Credits
Editorial Advisory Board
Story 1 0 pages
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Featuring Wonder Woman; All-Star Comics

Story 2 1 page

"You'll find more exciting adventures of Wonder Woman in..."

Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Bog Trap
Story 3 12 pages superhero

"Poor Olive! The boys wouldn't let her play with them."

Storyline

Olive wants to play baseball with the boys, so Wonder Woman takes her to Paradise Island to practice and train with the Amazons, and she returns with extraordinary strength and athleticism.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Princess Diana
  • Lt. Diana Prince]
  • General Darnell
  • Steve Trevor
  • Hippolyte
  • The Amazons [Athleta
  • rest unnamed]
  • Zoe
  • Olive Norton (introduction)
  • Jimmy Norton (Olive's brother, introduction)
  • a group of children [Tom
  • rest unnamed]
  • a gang of spy smugglers (villains, introduction for all)
Credits
Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails. Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we formerly suggested Robert Kanigher.

Vern Stephens
Story 4 1 page
Story 5 1 page humor
Brains Over Brawn!
Story 6 6 pages children; superhero

"How're we doin', Harold?"

Storyline

The boys capture an escaped circus lion.

Characters
  • Little Boy Blue [Tommy Rogers] and the Blue Boys [Toughy
  • Tubby]
  • Harold Barnes
  • Ginny Smith
Credits
Story Notes

data from Jerry Bails

From "Lead Foot" to Anchor Man
Story 7 1 page sports
The Treasure Map (1)
Story 8 6 pages fantasy; superhero

"Millions of people ride up and down in elevators every day."

Storyline

Max tries to borrow fifty dollars from his boss, Sargon, claiming he can turn it into half a million. Sargon refuses, but a number of crooks overhear his claim and give him $12.50 apiece. Max goes to Piker, the rare map dealer and buys a treasure map. This is the eighth such phony map Piker has sold this day. The crooks turn on themselves, each trying to get the map for themselves. When Sargon sees the map he confirms his suspicions that it is a scam.

Characters
  • Sargon the Sorcerer
  • Maximillian O'Leary [Max the Magnificent]
  • Mr. Piker
Credits
Story Notes

data from Jerry Bails

Featuring Out of the Gag-Bag

Story 9 1 page humor

"There goes my doctor..."

Credits
Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails. Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Story 10 1 page
The Book of Alibis
Story 11 6 pages adventure; superhero

"There's always somebody who thinks he can outsmart everybody else."

Storyline

Cuff Davis comes up with the idea of maintaining a books of alibis. A phonograph record of Cuff talking to a crony is played and his landlady swears to the police that Cuff was at home during the time of a robbery. He takes to his bed with a "sickness alibi". Mr. Terrific discovers his book of alibis and gives both it and Davis himself over to the police.

Characters
  • Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloane]
  • Wanda Wilson
  • Cuff Davis
Credits
Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails.

Giving a Heel the Boot!
Story 12 1 page adventure
Story 13 1 page humor

"Security! That's all they're interested in -- Security!"

Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails. Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

The First Artist
Story 14 2 pages
Credits
Story Notes

data from Jerry Bails

Featuring Watt the Question Man

Story 15 1 page humor

"As he is about to pop the question..."

Characters
  • Watt
Credits
Chivalry Doesn't Pay
Story 16 8 pages adventure; superhero

"In days of old when knights were bold and..."

Storyline

A gang of crooks who are fed up with Wildcat foiling their plans time after time, plan to use Stretch to lure Wildcat into the open, and then capture him. This they do and, for a change, Stretch rescues Wildcat from a garage filling with carbon monoxide.

Characters
  • Wildcat [Ted Grant]
  • Stretch Skinner
  • Dude Hansen
  • Sally Hansen
  • "Slugs" Dolan (crook)
Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails.

How Thom McAn Stopped a Tidal Wave
Story 17 1 page adventure
A Prevue of Magazines Now Selling at Your Dealers!
Story 18 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 19 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.