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Star Spangled Comics 68

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #68

Cover Date: May 1947
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1947-03-05

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Cover Credits:
Art: Win Mortimer


Story: "Four Days Before The Mast!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtWin Mortimer
LetteringIra Schnapp
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Robin (last in Detective Comics #123; next in World's Finest Comics #28)

Villain(s):

Captain Wolf (first appearance; a Nazi collaborator trying to retrieve sunken Nazi gold)

Location(s):

Gotham City

Story Reprinted in:

Robin Archives #1 (2005)


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Second Story: "All That Fizzles Isn't Soda" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Feature Character(s):

Penniless Palmer

Supporting Character(s):

Bunny
Oxie


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Third Story: "Voyage Down The Styx!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDon Cameron
ArtChuck Winter

Feature Character(s):

Liberty Belle (next in flashback in Justice Society of America Vol. 2 #3)

Villain(s):

Slugger Wells and a hotel manager (first appearance for both; rob guests on an underground riverboat cruise)

Comment(s):

This is the final Liberty Belle story published during the Golden Age.


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Fourth Story: "Laboratory Lightning!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJimmy Thompson
LetteringJimmy Thompson

Feature Character(s):

Robotman

Supporting Character(s):

Robbie the Robotdog

Villain(s):

Unnamed crooks (first appearance for all; try to destroy a lab creating artificial lightning)

Comment(s):

Thompson uses a combination of hand lettering and Ames Mechanical lettering.


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Fifth Story: "Adventure Express!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJon Small
LetteringIra Schnapp
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Star-Spangled Kid
Stripesy

Villain(s):

False-Face and his gang (first appearance for all; a former foe of SSK and Stripesy trying to steal the invention; also in flashbacks)

Other Character(s):

Professor Cogwell (first appearance; invents a "television walkie-talkie")

Location(s):

Washington, DC


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