The Barker #1 (1946) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	in a Carnival of Laughs and Thrills!	cover	1	pencils: Klaus Nordling; inks: Klaus Nordling; letters: Al Grenet	The Barker [Carnie Calahan]
2	-	comic story	12	script: Klaus Nordling; pencils: Klaus Nordling; inks: Klaus Nordling	The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Tiny Tim; Major Midge; Lena; Spudo the Spider-Man; Jack (death); McCann; Shotwell; Lydia (villain, elephant rider); Bobo (villain, clown)
3	-	comic story	11	script: Klaus Nordling; pencils: Klaus Nordling; inks: Klaus Nordling	The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Lena; Tiny Tim; Major Midge; Spudo the Spider-Man; Lily Ryan (horseback rider); Doctor Bordey; Nona de Garonne [as Lily Ryan] (villain)
4	Spudo	comic story	8	script: Gwen Hansen; pencils: Klaus Nordling; inks: Klaus Nordling	Spudo; Louella; Mr. Girch; Willis (Louella's father); Carnie Calahan [The Barker]
5	Telltale Eye	text story	2	letters: typeset
6	-	comic story	1	script: Paul Gustavson; pencils: Paul Gustavson; inks: Paul Gustavson; letters: Paul Gustavson	Slim Pickens
7	-	comic story	14	script: Joe Millard; pencils: Klaus Nordling; inks: Klaus Nordling	The Barker [Carnie Calahan]; Colonel Lane (Mammoth Circus owner); Tiny Tim; Major Midge; Lena; Shali; Spudo the Spider-Man; Abou Ben Hafiz (villain)

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

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