Sensation Comics, #59

Published: November 1946

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Sensation Comics #59

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Issue Contents:
The Blue Snowman
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Princess Diana
  • Lt. Diana Prince]
  • The Blue Snowman [Byrna Brilyant]
Credits
Editorial Advisory Board
Story 1 0 pages
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Featuring All-American Comics; Mutt & Jeff

Story 2 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Reign of Blue Terror
Story 3 12 pages superhero
Storyline

Byrna Brilyant's father dies shortly after developing a special type precipitation called "blue snow" that instantly freezes what it snows upon. Byrna decides to use this invention to hold crops and such for hostage, and she disguises her gender in the identity of the Blue Snow Man. Patsy notifies Etta that a weird Blue Snow is threatening her town of Fair Weather Valley, so Steve and Diana fly down that way, only to be forced down by the weird snow.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Princess Diana
  • Lt. Diana Prince]
  • Steve Trevor
  • Etta Candy
  • the Holliday Girls [Patsy Peters
  • rest unnamed]
  • Mr. Peters (Patsy's father, introduction)
  • Mrs. Peters (Patsy's mother, introduction)
  • Mayor Civix (introduction)
  • Judge Fayre (introduction)
  • Sheriff Sickum (introduction)
  • The Blue Snowman [Byrna Brilyant] (villain, introduction)
Credits
Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails. Writer credit from The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Jill Lapore, 2014).

Steve Van Buren
Story 4 1 page
Story 5 1 page humor

"Why are you still in uniform?"

Story Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Clothes Don't Make the (Gentle) Man!!
Story 6 6 pages children; superhero

"Tsk-tsk...Such ruffians!"

Storyline

Not knowing of Toughy's role as one of the Blue Boys, when he returns home with a shiner she thinks he has been roughhousing with Tommy and Tubby again (he has, but not in the way she thinks). She makes him change into gentlemanly clothes and keep away from rough situations. In the park, he overhears crooks planning to rob Anderson's Grocery Store at closing time. Tommy and Tubby, as Blue Boys, foil the robbery, and Toughy helps. When he returns with a second shiner his mother tells him she is proud of his role in preventing the robbery.

Characters
  • Little Boy Blue [Tommy Rogers] and the Blue Boys [Toughy
  • Tubby]
  • Toughy's mother
  • Rodney Willis
Credits
Story Notes

data from Jerry Bails

Saving the Warden's Daughter!
Story 7 1 page adventure
Credits
The Cat in the Sugar
Story 8 6 pages fantasy; superhero

"What can a person do with a third of a cat?"

Storyline

Three people fight over possession of their grandfather's cat. It seems that whoever takes care of the cat inherits $50,000. Using his magic, Sargon lets the cat choose for himself. He chooses the tabby in the alley.

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

data from Jerry Bails

Featuring Out of the Gag-Bag

Story 9 1 page humor

"Chee, fellers, be reasonable..."

Credits
Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails.

Story 10 1 page
Story Notes

Ad for Monark Super Deluxe model.

The Most Honest Man in Town
Story 11 6 pages adventure; superhero

"Mr. Terrific has devoted himself to defending law and order and wipiing out crime."

Storyline

The boxing world is honoring the retirement of Pop Crocker. But a gang of thugs have pressured him to have the Champ, Slash Gates, throw the following evening's match. When Pop cannot go through with it he is threatened. and Mr. Terrific steps in.

Characters
  • Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloane]
  • Pop Crocker
  • Slash Gates
  • Lefty Jagen
Credits
Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails.

Story 12 1 page humor

"Waddaya say we go window shopping."

Story Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Missing! One Okapi
Story 13 2 pages
Credits
Story Notes

data from Jerry Bails

Featuring Out of the Gag-Bag

Story 14 1 page humor

"I'm sick from eating peanut brutal!!"

Credits
Story 15 1 page
Caught Stealing!
Story 16 8 pages adventure; superhero

"You're out!!"

Storyline

Would-be crook Joe Fuhl has to prove himself before a local gang will let him join. Reading a headline about that evening's prize fight, with anticipated high box office returns, Fuhl decides this will be his initiation test. After robbing the receipts he makes his getaway, with Wildcat hot on his trail. But Stretch has been following him and Wildcat, distracted, is knocked out. The following day Wildcat catches up to the gang for good, despite Stretch's further bumbling.

Characters
  • Wildcat [Ted Grant]
  • Stretch Skinner
  • Joe Fuhl
Story Notes

Data from Jerry Bails.

How Thom McAn Licked the Landslide
Story 17 1 page adventure
Tops in Comics!
Story 18 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

How to Outbluff a Vicious Dog at Night!
Story 19 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.