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BOY COMMANDOS #28

Cover Date: July-August 1948
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1948-05-26

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Steve Brodie


Story: "The Zoo of the Future!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDon Cameron
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJohn Fischetti
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Boy Commandos
Captain Rip Carter
Brooklyn
Andre Chavard
Tex

Other Character(s):

Dr. Zotyl (first appearance; a beautiful scientist from 20000 AD; uses "hypnosis" to send Rip and the Commandos to the 201th Century to collect animals for an inter-world zoo)
Zotyl's father (first appearance; head of the Science Council)

Location(s):

Earth of the 201th Century (in a possible future)
Nuborn (first appearance; capture a land octopus, horned bats of the Mists, a Shock-Ray fish and a window-brained monster (see Comments))
Casttroph (first appearance; inhabited by large ant-like insects that imprisoned humans and use them for steeds)

Comment(s):

The window-brained monster is similar in attack as the Kryptonian Thought-Beast, but they do not look alike. The writer and artist of that story, Don Cameron and Curt Swan were edited by the same editor as the earlier


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Second Story: "The Unluckiest Guy in the World!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

PencilsCurt Swan
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Boy Commandos
Captain Rip Carter
Brooklyn (dreams he has ultimate bad luck after tempting multiple cues of misfortune)
Andre Chavard
Tex

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Third Story: "Keeper of the Big Cage!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

PencilsCurt Swan
InksSteve Brodie
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Boy Commandos
Captain Rip Carter (temporarily becomes Warden of a troubled prison)
Brooklyn
Andre Chavard
Tex

Villain(s):

Milton Conway (first appearance; a political fixer; uses the prison as a way to get the governor to lose the next election)
Bull Cantrell (first appearance; a crook that is intentionally jailed to get rid of Rip)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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