“Superman's Super Hold-Up / The Case of the Vanishing Arrow / The Bush Trackers / The Men Who Stole Roads / Race History Will Never Forget / The Joker's Aces”
July 1952
1. Buzzy Scoffs at "That Deep Dark Secret": (PSA with Buzzy Brown) Buzzy's friend Tommy is depressed because his girlfriend Maggie is upset about something and won't talk to him. Buzzy figures she is worried about what people will think because her uncle went to a mental hospital so he gets his girl Susie to speak to Maggie about it. 2. Superman’s Super Hold-up!: (Superman) Lex Luthor steals the Morven Magnet, capable of generating magnetism 1,000 times more powerful than any magnet before and directing it in a concentrated beam, from its creator. He then tricks Superman into picking up a giant globe to promote science education but it is rigged with explosives and poison gas that will go off if he puts it down, tosses it too high, or throws it too fast. Even with this hindrance, he manages to stop all of Luthor’s plans and eventually trick him into disarming the device. 3. Chief Hot Foot: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff) Chief Hot Foot sees a car pulling a camper and decides he wants to do the same but since he doesn’t have a car or trailer he puts his tepi on a donkey cart. 4. The Case of the Vanishing Arrow: (Green Arrow) As a symbol of Green Arrow and Speedy’s fight against crime, an arrow is to be fired into a tree. The city would then put a plaque under it and a fence around the tree, but when it is fired it vanishes in mid-air. Returning to investigate later, the archers find the tree itself has been stolen. Tracking the culprits, they find that a gang had been using a hollowed-out part of that tree to hide their loot after robberies and had sprayed a chemical in the air near the tree that caused the arrow to dissolve. 5. The Bush Trackers: (Manhunters Around the World) A Scotland Yard inspector travels to Australia and works with their Bush Trackers to find and capture a counterfeiter. 6. The Men Who Stole Roads: (Wyoming Kid) Stone roads are just starting to be built near the town of Cactus Gap but someone keeps tearing them up and stealing the stones at night. Wyoming Kid eventually figures out they are looking for loot they think was hidden in the stones of a castle that was torn down and had some of its stone used for the road. 7. Quick Quiz: (4 question and answer panels) 8. Professor Eureka: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff) On an expedition to the South Pole, the professor realizes too late that he didn’t tell his wife how far south he was going, as she only packed him summer clothes. 9. The Race History Will Never Forget: (text article about a car race from New York City to Paris France) 10. The Joker’s Aces!: (Batman) Joker hires specialists to commit crimes that would be impossible for most people. An extremely thin man to slip through a pipe into an extremely secure mansion, a man with thick glasses to start a fire in a playing card factory, a sword swallower to steal a jeweled knife, and an impersonator to pose as a rich man’s wife so Joker can loot his clown collection. Batman happened to be present and foiled that last one but Joker got away. Learning that Bruce Wayne was an expert with a slingshot in college, Joker kidnaps Dick and forces Bruce to fly to Bermuda with him and take a cruise back. He intends to have Bruce use a slingshot to deliver smuggled diamonds to a moored boat but Bruce palms the diamonds, swapping them out for Cristal. He then fakes missing his first shot to send a crystal with a note to a cop so they can rescue Dick. once Joker flees, Bruce switches to Batman and chases him through the ship before cornering him. 11. Jerry the Jitterbug: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff) Jerry is with a girl who wants popcorn so he tries taking her to a soda shop but she doesn't like that, he tries street vendor but she doesn’t want that either, she only wants the popcorn in the movie theater, making Jerry pay for the movie. — Description from Comic Vine community (comicvine.gamespot.com).
