Wow — What a Magazine! #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAn anthology issue featuring comics, stories, and instructional content including a biographical article on cartoonist E.C. Segar and the creation of Popeye; a "Trick Cartooning" tutorial demonstrating how to draw Uncle Sam with step-by-step grid instructions and a study of facial expressions; an anecdote titled "W.C. Fields Arrives a Bit Tardy and Causes the Director's Blood Pressure to Rise," recounting a humorous on-set incident where Fields' shaving mishap delays film production before being revealed as a practical joke; and a one-reel film review of "A Day on the Movie Set." The issue also advertises stamps and planes among its contents.
Rival factions in the town of Rawhide clash over who should be sheriff—the reform-minded Ken Marshall or the outlaw-sympathetic Louder Lucas—with violence erupting as the two camps battle for control of the lawless frontier town. Judge Roberts struggles to maintain order as the campaign heats up and the stakes grow higher for the future of the county.
In 1936, the Spanish Empire's debt drives the King to plunder Incan riches, prompting the infamous pirate Claw Carlos to hunt a priceless ruby being smuggled through an English harbor—and he'll stop at nothing to claim it. When Carlos coerces the Governor into helping him locate the gem among his guests, a mysterious stranger arrives claiming to be a Spanish agent, only to raise the young woman's suspicions about his true intentions. As tensions mount at the Governor's grand party, the real battle for possession of the ruby is only just beginning.
Tom Sherrill finds his sister Ellen held captive by a tribe of Indians, and when their escape attempt goes awry, he's captured by Chief Pow-Pow, who devises an unusual plan to unite Tom with the chief's daughter, Bitter Sweet. With his only chance of freedom hanging in the balance, Tom must navigate a treacherous situation while Ellen races through the wilderness toward safety—but danger lurks around every corner.
"Nose" Noggin, the human bloodhound detective, settles into Snaggle Castle alongside his partner to guard a nobleman against mysterious supernatural occurrences—but when a ghostly figure materializes in the dead of night, the pair springs into action with cunning and comedy in equal measure. What they uncover isn't quite what it seems, as an elaborate scheme unravels beneath the castle's eerie facade. A short, sharp mystery where the real danger wears a butler's uniform.
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Reprinted in Action! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] (2011), Hawks of the Seas - Les Boucaniers #[nn] (2017)
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