Ace Comics, #142

Published: January 1949

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Ace Comics #142

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Issue Contents:
1 page humor; children
Characters
  • Fritz
  • Diana (inset)
  • The Phantom (inset)
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Featuring The Young Reporter

Story 1 2 pages humor; children

"Keeping Busy With Good Hobbies!"

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Story Notes

Two pages of cartoons and comments submitted by young readers to the publisher. Begins on inside front cover, page 2 is on inside back cover.

Story 2 1 page humor

"Sure! Dey got moths in Afstralia..."

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Story 3 1 page humor

"Bah! Soft like a chelly fish!"

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Story 4 9 pages jungle; superhero

"Searching for Princess Lakania's kidnapped father..."

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Reprint Notes

From Phantom daily strips (King Features Syndicate) between 1944-10-18 and 1944-11-27. (This run of dailies is missing many panels and many whole days.)

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Page 1 is a new splash page. The remaining 8 pages are reprints of dailies. The first daily's text begins: "No need to hurry now.".

Story 5 4 pages adventure; jungle

""You, Haj Ali, shall die as a false mullah"..."

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8. Crazy Horse
Story 6 2 pages non-fiction; western-frontier
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Two-page illustration with hand-written text.

Story 7 1 page humor; children

"Here's my bicycle pump..."

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Wanchi Witch Doctor
Story 8 7 pages adventure; jungle; science fiction

"Brick, June and Pert have been saved from death..."

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Page 1 is a new splash page.

Story 9 2 pages humor; domestic

"Can you tell me the way..."

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Three vignettes, four panels each: "It Isn't Polite to Point!"; "Daylight Saving!"; and "Facing the Fact!"

Story 10 4 pages western-frontier

"It's the masked man!"

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Story 11 1 page humor

"Trying to Bottle Moonshine"

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Six one-panel gags submitted by readers and drawn by Doc Winner.

Story 12 1 page humor

"Wot's the idea of hangin' around..."

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Printed on back cover.