Taxi O'Hara Comics #5
Colour Comics Pty. Ltd.
Australia.
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled
(Taxi O'Hara)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Taxi O'Hara
- Genre
- Adventure
Credits
- Art
- Hart Amos, line art [signed as Amos]
- Colours
- , colourist
1"Meet Batman! He's terrific! He's one of the world's best known adventure characters! You can follow the adventures of Batman and his young assistant Robin every month in Batman Comics Sixpence at all Newsagents."
Details
- Printed
- 1950 to 1951
- Genre
- Superhero
- More...
- Meet Batman! [Sixpence]
![Meet Batman! [Sixpence] (1950-1951)](/image/gallery/423/meet-batman-sixpence.jpg "Meet Batman! [Sixpence] (1950-1951)")
2"Taxi O'Hara doesn't get rich driving a cab--but he does find plenty of excitement!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Taxi O'Hara [Hack O'Hara]
- Genre
- Adventure
- Characters
- Hack O'Hara
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- , line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- George Brenner, original Editor
- Management
- Busy Arnold, original General Manager [as E. M. Arnold]
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3"Look, Effendi, mighty big river."
Featuring
- Feature
- Major Marmaduke the Eccentric Explorer
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Vernon Hayles, scripter [signed as Hayles]
- Art
- Vernon Hayles, line art [signed as Hayles]
- Text
- Vernon Hayles, letterer
4"Well! Well! Well! And Tut-tut!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Sheriff Scuttle of Sage-Bush City
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Vernon Hayles, scripter [signed as Hayles]
- Art
- Vernon Hayles, line art [signed as Hayles]
- Text
- Vernon Hayles, letterer
5"Why can't our city hospitals get penicillin?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Pen Miller
- Genre
- Detective-mystery
- Characters
- Pen Miller; Chop Chu; Soupy Dennis; Mr. Arnt
Credits
- Writing
- Klaus Nordling, scripter [signed as Klaus]
- Art
- Klaus Nordling, line art [signed as Klaus]
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- George Brenner, original Editor
- Management
- Busy Arnold, original General Manager [as E. M. Arnold]
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- First print
-
Crack Comics (Quality, 1940 series) #41 (Spring 1946) — Untitled [Why can't our local hospitals get penicillin?]
Synopsis
Pen is suspicious when a racketeer goes into the penicillin business
6"Did I ever tell you about the time I caught a three foot bream Daffy?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Daffy & Doodle
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Lit-Win, scripter
- Art
- Lit-Win, line art [signed]
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, original Editor [attributed]
- Mort Weisinger, original Editor [attributed]
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Notes
'Bass' in the original has been changed to 'Bream'.
7"Okay dad, I'll shovel a path to the street!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Shorty
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Henry Boltinoff, scripter
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff, line art [signed]
- Text
- Henry Boltinoff, letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, original Editor [attributed]
- Mort Weisinger, original Editor [attributed]
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8"Nobody could say Taxi O'Hara, tough cabby, is exactly the fatherly type…"
Featuring
- Feature
- Taxi O'Hara [Hack O'Hara]
- Genre
- Adventure
- Characters
- Hack O'Hara; Nora Hayes (first appearance); Henry Hayes and his accomplices (first appearance; villains)
Credits
- Writing
- Vern Henkel, scripter [signed as Vernon Henkel]
- Art
- Vern Henkel, line art [signed as Vernon Henkel]
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- George Brenner, original Editor
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![Taxi O'Hara Comics (Colour Comics, 1948? series) #5 — Untitled [The Kidnapping of Nora Hayes] (page 1)](/image/127830/page-1-taxi-ohara-comics-colour-comics-1948-series-5-untitled-the-k.jpg "Taxi O'Hara Comics (Colour Comics, 1948? series) #5 — Untitled [The Kidnapping of Nora Hayes] (page 1)")
9"Watch this strip tomorrow for the appearance of the master mind of the Rotley gang!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Pen Miller
- Genre
- Detective-Mystery
- Characters
- Pen Miller; The Rotley Gang and their Chief (first appearance; villains); Chop Chu; Kansas; Benny the Mouse
Credits
- Writing
- Klaus Nordling, scripter [signed]
- Art
- Klaus Nordling, line art [signed]
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- George Brenner, original Editor
- Management
- Busy Arnold, original General Manager
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- First print
-
Crack Comics (Quality, 1940 series) #38 (Summer 1945) — Untitled [The Mastermind of the Rotley Gang]
Synopsis
Pen Miller is turning up the heat on the Rotley Gang, so they want to rub him out before he discovers their leader.
![Taxi O'Hara Comics (Colour Comics, 1948? series) #5 — Untitled [The Mastermind of the Rotley Gang] (page 1)](/image/127829/page-1-taxi-ohara-comics-colour-comics-1948-series-5-untitled-the-m.jpg "Taxi O'Hara Comics (Colour Comics, 1948? series) #5 — Untitled [The Mastermind of the Rotley Gang] (page 1)")
10"Now Pete, practise your piano lesson!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Little Pete
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Henry Boltinoff, scripter [signed]
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff, line art [signed]
- Text
- Henry Boltinoff, letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, original Editor [attributed]
- Mort Weisinger, original Editor [attributed]
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11"Taxi O'Hara, cabbie, faces a barrel of trouble when he follows the trail of the preying Hawk!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Taxi O'Hara [Hack O'Hara]
- Genre
- Adventure
- Characters
- Hack O'Hara; Hawk
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Alice Kirkpatrick, line art
- , inker
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- George Brenner, original Editor
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- First print
-
Crack Comics (Quality, 1940 series) #60 (May 1949) — Untitled [Trail of the Preying Hawk]
Synopsis
O'Hara is pursuing a hit and run driver who turns out to be a part of a gang of bankrobbers.
![Taxi O'Hara Comics (Colour Comics, 1948? series) #5 — Untitled [Trail of the Preying Hawk] (page 1)](/image/127840/page-1-taxi-ohara-comics-colour-comics-1948-series-5-untitled-trail.jpg "Taxi O'Hara Comics (Colour Comics, 1948? series) #5 — Untitled [Trail of the Preying Hawk] (page 1)")
12"Lemmy, could you help us, please? My ma is in pain, and can get no ease."
Featuring
- Feature
- Lemmy Loo
- Genre
- Humour
- Code
- XVII
Credits
- Writing
- Lloyd Piper, scripter [signed]
- Art
- Lloyd Piper, line art [signed]
- Text
- Lloyd Piper, letterer
13"While you are waiting for my dad, Professor Pry, would you like to play a game with me?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Professor Pry the Wise Guy
- Genre
- Humour
- Code
- IV
Credits
- Writing
- Lloyd Piper, scripter [signed as LP]
- Art
- Lloyd Piper, line art [signed as LP]
- Text
- Lloyd Piper , letterer
Indicia
Printed by Associated Newspapers Ltd. and Seaborn Printing Co. for Color Comics Pty. Ltd., Sydney, proprietors and produced by the K. G. Murray Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., 56 Young St., Sydney. Gordon and Gotch (A/sia) Ltd., wholesale distributors.