This issue features: Rick O'Shay in 'Christmas Hunt'; The Phantom in 'Return of the Sky Band' by Lee Falk and Ray Moore; Flash Gordon in 'Ad Astra' by Mac Raboy; Tarzan in 'Tarzan and the Roman Legion' by Russ Manning; Latigo by Stan Lynde; Gasoline Alley by Dick Moores; Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff; and Casey Ruggles by Warren Tufts. Plus: daily stories in black and white: Secret Agent Corrigan by Al Williamson; Buz Sawyer by Roy Crane; The Phantom by Lee Falk; Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell; Flash Gordon by Dan Barry; Tarzan by Bob Lubbers; Sir Bagby by R&D Hackney; Alley Oop by V.T. Hamlin; and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. And continuing the second Mandrake the Magician daily story from 1935, 'The Hawk' by Lee Falk and Phil Davis.