Thees hide use' to belong to my friend, Jacques! Jacques was beegest crocodile in bayou! One day I keel him! 
- — Coco LeBoc
National Comics #62 is an issue of the series National Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1947.
Synopsis for The Barker: "The Crocodile Man"
Arriving in bayou country, Col. Lane's circus isn't able to impress any of the locals with the inhabitants of their sideshow. Spuda and Midge go for a walk out by the swamps, and are terrified by Coco, a local eccentric who wears a costume made from the skin of a crocodile. They realize this could be the angle they need, and convince him to appear in the sideshow during their stay. The "crocodile man" indeed draws a crowd, but one is Gaston, who happens to be a rival in love to the man in the suit, who decides to bring their mutual inamorata to the circus to see the ridiculous crocodile man. Coco is incensed, and connives to bring a real crocodile to the next show so it can attack Gaston, and Coco can look heroic subduing it. This backfires when his girl comforts Gaston instead, leading to Coco swearing off women (and the Colonel chewing out Spuda and Midge for trying to cheat their audiences with "fake freaks").
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- Coco LeBoc
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- Yvonne Lamont
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Synopsis for Sally O'Neil Policewoman: "Sign Here, Lady"
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Synopsis for Steve Wood: "The Arm-Chair Method of Solving a Crime"
For recovering stolen bonds for the Waterfront Bank, Steve's rewarding himself with a week's vacation up in the mountains. Even though his secretary Sally points out he caught the thief, but not the brain behind the theft. As his train starts to pull away from the station, Steve spots something suspicious and jumps off.
Meanwhile, the crook who planned the theft comes by Steve's office, ties Sally to a chair and steals back the bonds before they can be returned to the bank. Steve comes up to him pretending to be a destitute tramp by hiding his face with a handkerchief, then chases the boss down when he recognizes the private dick. After cornering him in an alley, Steve reveals he was only faking going on vacation so the mastermind would think it was safe to recover his loot. Steve administers a sound thrashing and the crook surrenders himself to Inspector Flanagan, who's glad to finally get some glory by returning the stolen bonds. Until Steve tells him he'd never be dumb enough to leave real loot where a crook could steal it so easily, and he had the real bonds on him the whole time. The only thing in the envelope the crook stole was old wrappers.
Steve takes a furious Sally to the mountains on a real vacation to make up for his plan involving her being tied to a chair for a few hours and not telling her. When they get there, reporter Peg Allen's already been waiting for Steve, and the annoyed women ask what he was planning. Steve can only ask himself what caliber of detective it'll take to get out of this mess.
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- Steve Wood, Waterfront Detective
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- Sally, secretary
- Inspector Flanagan
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Synopsis for Lassie and Laddie: "Camp Leskyboatha"
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- Lassie
- Laddie
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- Roberta
- Roger
Synopsis for Quicksilver: "Win or Die"
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- First issue for Anthrop by Michael Senich.
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