Sensation Comics, #61
Published: January 1947
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Issue Contents:
The Million Dollar Tennis Game
Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
Credits
- Pencils: Harry Peter
- Inks: Harry Peter
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Million Dollar Tennis Game
"Wonder Woman is caught in strange intrigue at Holliday College."
Storyline
When the trustees of Holliday College make a million dollar bet with Starvard, to be determined by the outcome of a tennis match between the two schools, Bluff knocks out Wonder Woman and makes her invisible with a special gas.
Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
- Steve Trevor
- Etta Candy
- the Holliday Girls
- Holliday College Trustees [Sidney Simper
- Rufus Robust] (introduction for both)
- Pete Athleet (introduction)
- Bluff Robust (villain, Rufus's nephew, introduction)
Credits
- Script: Joop Bonarius
- Pencils: Harry Peter
- Inks: Harry Peter
Story Notes
Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we formerly suggested Robert Kanigher.
Clark Shaughnessy
"View from the inside..."
Too Tough to Handle!
"Wow! Looka dem Blue Boys!"
Storyline
The Blue Boys are asked to take juvenile delinquent Joey Smith under their wing. They rescue Old Man Mosher, who is being held captive in his basement while a gang searches for money they thought was hidden there.
Characters
- Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys
- Joey Smith
- District Attorney Rogers
- Old Man Mosher
Credits
- Pencils: Frank Harry
- Inks: Frank Harry
Story Notes
Story title and page count from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
Editorial Advisory Board
Henry Hyena Can't Help Laughing!
Featuring Funny Stuff
Wistful Wally Jones
"Now millions of people have gotten to be twenty-one..."
Storyline
Wally Jones is about due to inherit a fortune, but only if his good name stays out of the papers. His guardian, who stands to inherit if Wally is besmirched, tries hard to embroil Wally in fights and sexual intrigue, but Sargon steps in and puts matters to rights.
Characters
- Sargon
- Wistful Wally Jones
- Maximillian
Credits
- Pencils: Irwin Hasen
- Inks: Irwin Hasen
"I must be getting soft..."
Credits
- Script: Harry Lampert
- Pencils: Harry Lampert
- Inks: Harry Lampert
- Letters: Harry Lampert
Story Notes
Four unrelated gag panels. Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Give 'Em the Bird!
"Well, what do you think of those birds?"
Storyline
Elmer and his pet penguin Flipper are a failed vaudeville act. Crooks try to use them to steal from a rich society affair, but Terry Sloane is in attendance and foils the crooks as Mr. Terrific.
Characters
- Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloane]
- Elmer and Flipper (vaudeville act)
- Mrs. Ritzbilt
- Big Gus Greagon (crook)
Tough Stuff
Storyline
A stray cat saves a little girl from a snake and is rewarded with adoption.
Credits
- Script: Robert Zingerle
Story Notes
Page count and script from Jerry Bails. Title and synopsis from Arthur Lortie via the GCD Error Tracker.
On the Prowl
"One of the most treacherous of human emotions..."
Storyline
Ted Grant and Stretch Skinner see a poster for a circus. While there a leopard escapes and Ted, as Wildcat, gets it under control. He decides to oversee the performances, and saves an aerialist from falling to his death, and while veteran employee Carl Rutig forces an escaped lion back into its cage. The would-be saboteur is Jim Malley, whose father was killed in the circus and has set out to get revenge. Wildcat pleads for leniency with the owner, and Malley is 'sentenced' to twelve hours a day washing the elephants.
Characters
- Wildcat [Ted Grant]
- Stretch Skinner
- Jim Malley
- Carl Rutig
Credits
- Pencils: Irwin Hasen
- Inks: Irwin Hasen
How Thom McAn Stopped the Forest Fire
Characters
- Red Ryder
- Little Beaver
Credits
- Pencils: Fred Harman
- Inks: Fred Harman
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
How to Outbluff a Vicious Dog at Night!
Story Notes
Back cover.