Sparkler Comics, #5

Published: January 1944

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Sparkler Comics #5

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Issue Contents:
1 page

"Whee!! Here ve come!"

Looks Like the Captain Is Getting the Education
Story 1 6 pages humor

"Bamboozle my top lights Inspector, if you didn't done it!"

Story 2 4 pages detective-mystery

"Benny Brooklyn, sole survivor of 'The City of Rio', is telling Hap..."

Credits
Story 3 3 pages western-frontier

"As train wreck victims received medical treatment in Bonanza..."

Story 4 2 pages drama

"This is the comic department, Miss Cinders."

Story Notes

Each page is signed in the bottom-right corner.

Story 5 5 pages adventure; jungle

"Prince Jagurt promised Tarzan his freedom for saving Princess Leecia..."

Story Notes

The last panel of each page has Hogarth's signature.

Story 6 6 pages humor; children

"Then you will let me join your gang, Sluggo?"

Credits
Story 7 5 pages adventure

"The Commandos are a great outfit, sir, but begging the colonel's pardon..."

Chilean Hero
Story 8 2 pages non-fiction
Characters
  • Bernardo O'Higgins
Story Notes

Includes stamp ads.

Story 9 0 pages
Credits
  • Script: business manager) (credited
Story Notes

The Statement of Ownership is in the middle of the first Stamps page.

Story 10 5 pages drama

"Oh, please stop, Lana -- it's Slats -- oh, Slats!!!"

Credits
Story 11 5 pages humor

"Air is full o' Christmas all right!"

Storyline

Bombo is hired by a department store in the Christmas season. He fails as the store detective and later causes havoc in the toy department.

Characters
  • El Bombo
  • J.B.
  • Cat-Eye Annie
  • Mr. Biltybux
Sergt. James Burgess; Corp. William J. McGahern
Story 12 2 pages non-fiction; war
Story 13 1 page humor

"Jocko made so much money lately..."

Credits
Story Notes

Two one-panel jokes.

Story 14 8 pages superhero

"The Spark Man is being helped in his escape from Germany by Voz..."