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Issue: The Barker #15

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Publication Date: December 1949

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Issues: #15 of 15 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand: Quality Comic Group

Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Harry Stein; Everett M. Arnold [as E. M. Arnold] (general manager)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (6 total)

The Barker Deflates Froggo the Briny Badman

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Major Midge

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Pages: 1

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Major Midge; Tiny Tim; Lena; Shali; Spudo the Spider-Man; Froggo the Frog Man (villain)

First Line: Stop struggling, gentlemen! I visited your world...why can't you spend a few hours in mine?

Synopsis: The circus travels to Gay Bay, where they found their camp on the waterfront, and they tried to devise new ways to wow folks with aquatic tricks. Instead, they are terrorized by Froggo, who could stay underwater for 20 minutes. While the Colonel thought Froggo to be the ultimate act, in reality the performer was bilking the circus for cash.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Spudo

Character(s): Spudo; Ira Ratt; Ellen; Oscar Guggle; Deputy Snodgrass

First Line: Sorry, boys, but I just washed my hands and I can't do a thing with them!

Synopsis: Spudo gets involved in a local sheriff's race.

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Pages: 6

Cat Act

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Genres: adventure

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Character(s): Salty Waters; Christopher Columbus

First Line: Now look, Chris, fun is fun but what say we turn back now...

Synopsis: Salty dreams of sea monsters.

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Genres: adventure, humorous

Character(s): The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Tiny Tim; Lena; Major Midge; Trixie; Stuart Gridley; Rosa Lamont Gridley; Jessup

First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, as you can all see, this amazing bareback riding performance...

Synopsis: A man goes to great lengths to keep his wife from going to the circus.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Final appearance of The Barker feature in The Barker. The feature has also been appearing in National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series), which also ends this month with #75. Which of these issues should be considered the final Golden Age appearance of the feature is unclear. The feature appears next in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 Series) #801 (February 2005).

Final appearance (with National Comics #75) of The Barker [Carnie Callahan] character. When the feature is revived in 2005, it will star his grandson Kieran "Kitt" Calahan.