Jack Armstrong #1 Values

COVER DETAILS

Title: Jack Armstrong Solves the Arctic Mystery

Characters: Jack Armstrong

Pencils: Howard Larsen

Inks: Howard Larsen

Letters: typeset

Notes: Larsen is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who, and the artwork is identical to his signed or unsigned stories in many western comics like Hawk or Western Bandit Trails.

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STORY DETAILS

Story #1 Story #2 Story #3 Story #4 Story #5 Story #6 Story #7 Story #8 Story #9 (9 Stories)

Title: Jack Armstrong Solves the Arctic Mystery

Characters: Jack Armstrong

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Howard Larsen

Inks: Howard Larsen

Notes: Info by Craig Delich (November, 2005). Howard Larsen is best to spot by his faces with large ears and noses, and bulging lips with dark shadows underneath, and big hats far back on the head seen in front view. The hero here has none of these shadows, but the other characters have.

Title: The Case of the Forgetful Forger

Characters: Vic Hardy; Chief Dale

Synopsis: Vic discovers serial numbers were changed on some stolen bond certificates.

Pages: 3.670

Pencils: Ed Smalle (signed)

Inks: Ed Smalle (signed)

Notes: The bottom one-six of pages two and three in the story are mail-in coupons for subscriptions to Parents' Magazine Press comics. (back-to-back.)

Title: Jack Armstrong vs. the Man of a Million Faces

Characters: Jack Armstrong; Professor Proteus (villain)

Pages: 12.000

Pencils: Howard Larsen

Inks: Howard Larsen

Notes: Art notes as for the cover and first story.

Title: Change of Pace

Pages: 2.000

Script: George D. Lipscomb (signed)

Pencils: Edd Ashe (signed)

Inks: Edd Ashe (signed)

Letters: ?; typeset

Notes: Text story with one large illustration.

Title: Slaughter's Mad Dash in the 1946 World Series

Characters: Enos Slaughter; Harry Walker

Synopsis: St. Louis Cardinals' Enos Slaughter surprisingly scores from first base on a routine single for the winning run of the 1946 World Series.

Pages: 2.000

Script: Phil Berube ?

Pencils: Phil Berube ?

Inks: Phil Berube ?

Notes: Info and credits by Craig Delich (November, 2005).

Title: Simba Bwana - Lion Master

Characters: Simba Bwana [Akhu]

Synopsis: When a lion attacks his cattle, a young Masai boy kills it with a spear.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Jack Sparling ?

Inks: Jack Sparling ?

Title: Angel of Mercy With Water-Wings

Characters: Betty Fairfield; Emma Webster

Synopsis: Nurse Emma Webster and Betty rescue a child during a flood and spend the night in a make-shift first aid station in a church.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Jack Sparling ?

Inks: Jack Sparling ?

Title: Hal Newhouser

Characters: Hal Newhouser

Synopsis: Profile of Detroit Tigers' pitcher Hal Newhouser, who won 25 or more games in 1944, 1945, and 1946.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Phil Berube (signed)

Pencils: Phil Berube (signed)

Inks: Phil Berube (signed)

Notes: Illustrations and text.

Title: Billy Rings the Bell

Characters: Billy Fairfield; Billy's mother; Billy's sister

Synopsis: Billy goes on a muscle-building program to win a prize at an amusement park, but gets a surprise the day of the contest.

Pages: 4.000

Pencils: Vic Herman

Inks: Vic Herman

Notes: Framing sequence has Billy drawing the story himself, (hence the feature title), apparently to explain the difference in art styles from the rest of the issue.

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