Comic Title: Star Spangled Comics #88
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1949
Approx. On Sale Date: November 5, 1948 Copyright Date November 3, 1948
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1948
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Girl Who Tried to Be a Boy"
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Merry, Girl of 1,000 Gimmicks

Artist: J. Winslow Mortimer

Feature Character(s)

• Merry (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #87; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #89)

Villain(s)

• Charles and two thugs (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• William Alice Moore (no further appearances)
• William's grandfather (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Merry meets William Moore, a girl who is running away from a military academy for boys. Though she is a girl, William has been forced to live her life as a boy by her grandfather. Merry helps convince William's grandfather to let her live as the girl she is. Merry also stops a plot by Charles, the grandfather's nephew, to steal William's inheritance. With the plot ended, William, now Alice, is able to live happily as a girl.