User:John Charles Heiser

By April, 1947, Issue #132 included: Blondie(Chic Young), The Lone Ranger(Fran Striker through October,1947, changing to Bob Green in November,1947), Barney Baxter(Frank Miller), Mandrake The Magician(Lee Falk & Phil Davis), Thimble Theatre- Starring Popeye(King Features Syndicate Inc.), Bringing Up Father(Geo McManus), Flash Gordon(King Features Syndicate Inc.), The Phantom(Lee Falk & Ray Moore), Dun-Dums(Bob Dunn), The Little King(O. Soglow), Henry(Carl Anderson), and shorts not always run, such as Polka-Dot Pictures, the Doodle Contest, Sports(Jack Sords), The Pet Post, and an adult ad(Advertised as McKay Comic Group, or David McKay Company), for Perry Mason,The Romance of Flying,The Katzenjammer Kids,advertised as available "on the NEWSSTAND", probably sensitive to boycotts or loss of business, as the ad appears in #142,February,1948, very close to the end of WWII.