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Summer TC Takes You On A Journey to the Moon

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Penciller(s): Frank Borth ?

Inker(s): Frank Borth ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, science fiction

Feature(s): Journey to the Moon

Character(s): Jack Bruce; Jumo Kwambe; Oshio Sumata; Indra Bannerji; Capt. Bob Simmons

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Pages: 1

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Frank Tytus Huffman (signed)

Inker(s): Frank Tytus Huffman (signed)

Letterer(s): Frank Tytus Huffman ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Treasure Chest's Puzzle Page

Character(s): Slim Jim

Synopsis: A crossword puzzle; two mathematical riddles

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Pages: 1

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Frank Moss (credited)

Penciller(s): Fran Matera (signed)

Inker(s): Fran Matera (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, science fiction

Feature(s): Journey to the Moon

Character(s): Jack Bruce; Jumo Kwambe; Oshio Sumata; Indra Bannerji; Capt. Bob Simmons

Synopsis: This series is set in the future in 2008. Four students will train to become space travelers. They will take off from Cape Kennedy and transfer to an orbiting space station. Their final destination will be the moon, where an airtight domed city has been established. They will learn how to live in airless space and teach new students the same thing after their training has been completed. This will be the first space college. Each student is a specialist in a different field. There is a mechanical engineer, a geologist and a social worker. Oshio's specialty is nuclear electronics.

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Pages: 6

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Writer(s): Frank Huffman [as Frank Tytus Huffman] (signed)

Penciller(s): Frank Huffman [as Frank Tytus Huffman] (signed)

Inker(s): Frank Huffman [as Frank Tytus Huffman] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Hannibal Bear

Character(s): Hannibal Bear

First Line: All about elephant hiding

Synopsis: Hannibal Bear goes elephant hunting but when it begins to rain he has to hide under an elephant from the showers.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime gag strip told in six panels.

Houdini Master Magician

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): George Straley (credited)

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Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Character(s): Harry Houdidni

Synopsis: The story of Harry Houdini, the greatest illusionist who ever lived. This touches on his career as an escape artist, magician and illusionist. Also mentions his film career, in which he starred in several serials and feature films and his interest in spritualism, in which he exposed many frauds.

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Pages: 5

Fool Your Friends

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bill Berry (signed)

Inker(s): Bill Berry (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Synopsis: Four magic tricks you can try on your friends.

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The Last Laugh

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Genevieve Olson (credited)

Penciller(s): Rita Mathews (credited)

Inker(s): Rita Mathews (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Notes: Text story with three accompanying illustrations.

These Birds are Unique because of their Beak

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: nature

Synopsis: Text in the center of each page describing the type of beak each bird has and what it's used for with an illustration of each bird's head in clockwise fashion around the text. The name of each bird appears under the illustration of its head.

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Pages: 2

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Frank Borth (signed)

Penciller(s): Frank Borth (signed)

Inker(s): Frank Borth (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, humorous, western

Feature(s): The Tail of Humpty Dumpty

Character(s): Harry Rank; Shifty; Tex Jones; Humpty Dumpty

First Line: Ride 'im Tex!

Synopsis: Harry Rank and Shifty are partners in a rodeo business. Harry owns a horse named Humpty Dumpty, which Shifty has trained to buck. The horse looks and acts like a docile worn-out plow horse, but once you climb on his back, he comes to life and nobody can ride him longer than a few seconds. Shifty and Harry are going to drive Humpty to New York, to enter him in the World's Championship Rodeo.

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Pages: 6

The Splendid Splinter

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Pete Hironaka (signed)

Inker(s): Pete Hironaka (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: biography, sports

Feature(s): Sport's Clipboard

Character(s): Ted Williams

Synopsis: Text story about baseball's Ted Williams, with three accompanying illustrations all framed against a clipboard.

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Pages: 1

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Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Summer Smilers

Synopsis: Four single-panel gags.

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Heroines of Lighthouse Point

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Nora Hunter (credited)

Penciller(s): Bill Haines (signed)

Inker(s): Bill Haines (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Character(s): Simon Bates; Rebecca Bates; Arvilla Bates; Simon Bates Jr.

Synopsis: American and British forces are at war on the high seas in 1812. British ships take seamen off American ships and make raids on the coast. In Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a lighthouse keeper, goes for supplies, leaving his three children at the lighthouse. As they play on top of the dunes, a British man-of-war drops anchor in the bay. The girls send Simon to the village to warn the town. Oarsmen in longboats are making their way toward land. The girls fool the British into thinking a large army of American troops is on the other side of the dunes by playing Yankee Doodle on fife and drum.

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Pages: 5

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Lloyd Ostendorf (signed)

Inker(s): Lloyd Ostendorf (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: nature

Feature(s): Where Are You?

Synopsis: You are in a park with a 50-mile, fog drenched shoreline with rain forest and glaciers. No roads cleave through the park. Trees upholstered in mossy green velvet lend a jungle air to the forest. During the brief summer season, hundreds of plant varieties blaze with color. It was established in 1938 and has 888,558 acres of lush wilderness. It contains the finest primeval rain forest in the country. It's Olympic National Park, in the state of Washington.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Every issue of Summer Treasure Chest will take you to a National Park in the US or Canada. Text and illustrations will describe the park and the reader is asked to guess the name of the park. The answer is given upside-down on the bottom of the page.

Pulling a Tooth

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Marvin Townsend (signed)

Penciller(s): Marvin Townsend (signed)

Inker(s): Marvin Townsend (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Marvin Townsend

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Ali

Character(s): Ali; a driver

Synopsis: Ali balks at having a tooth removed by tying it to a car, so he ties his end to a giant decorative tooth instead.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime gag-strip told in six panels.

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Bill Berry (signed)

Inker(s): Bill Berry (signed)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Puzzle Page

Character(s): Miner Sam

Synopsis: Solve the maze so that Miner Sam can return to his lost mine.

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June 23, 1611

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Reed Crandall

Inker(s): Reed Crandall

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: historical

Feature(s): This Day in History

Character(s): Henry Hudson

Synopsis: An illustration and accompanying text depicting Henry Hudson, his son and seven loyal sailors being set adrift in a small boat in Hudson Bay by his mutinous crew. The famous adventurer and explorer of Canada's Hudson Bay and Hudson River was never heard from again.

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Pages: 1

Notes: back cover