Unofficial National Comics Index

NATIONAL COMICS #73

Cover Date: August 1949
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1949

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Cover Credits:
Art: Gill Fox (signed)

Story: [No Title] (11 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Gwen Hansen
Art	Klaus Nordling
Editing	George Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Barker

Supporting Character(s):

Tiny

Col. Lane

Lena

Major Midge

Spudo the Spider Man

Villain(s):

Shady and Knuckles (first appearance for both; two running a crooked game booth)

Biff Capers (first appearance; a former circus clown posing as a yokel and ripping off the circus)

Location(s):

Mammoth Circus

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Second Story: "Carrying A Torch" (1 Page)

Credits:

Creators: saw no args

Feature Character(s):

Barker

Other Character(s):

Lolita (first appearance; a new trapeze artist who nearly burns down the big tent to get the lion tamer to notice her)

Comment(s):

This is a text story.

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Third Story: "Skyscraper Sabotage!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Pete Riss
Editing	George Brenner

Feature Character(s):

Quicksilver (last in issue #71/3; next in flashback in Impulse #16)

Villain(s):

Chips Scarbro (first appearance; a construction site racketeer)

Brody (first appearance; one of the foremen on the construction site; working with Chips)

Comment(s):

This is the final Quicksilver story published in the Golden Age.

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