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The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #9 (1953) · The Collector

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The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog (1952)
#9

DC Comics#9

The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog

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The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #9

The Sword of the Setting Sun / Crime Runs the Bases / Rex Goes to College

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: May 1953
On sale: Mar 16, 1953
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36

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Credits

Writers: Robert Kanigher, John Broome
Pencillers: Gil Kane, Irwin Hasen
Inkers: Sy Barry, Bernard Sachs
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino

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Grand Comics Database issue 10497

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In WW2, in the Pacific, the island called the "Dragon's Tooth" is unbreachable because of a "magic talisman". Rex and Major Dennis raft ashore and see it, the Japanese Emperor's Sword of the Setting Sun that makes the troops invincible. Teaming up, Dennis attacks the troops while Rex steals the sword. Chased underwater, they're rescued by Navy artillery. A Marine notes, "Somebody must've yanked this Dragon's Tooth!"

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Gil Kane, Sy Barry

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Other

Julius Schwartz

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