Issue: #23
Published: May 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Gilbert Fox (editor); E. M. Arnold (general manager)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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Comic Story (9 pages) |
The Unsung Hero |
Featuring: |
The Black Condor |
Synopsis: |
A former fifth columnist named Hawks had tried to warn Senator Wright of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but he'd been out of commission and arrived after December 7th. However, Hawks also carried word of a second attack, this time on the Panama Canal. While that attack indeed takes place, Hawks takes to the skies and makes a suicide dive into a Japanese ship while the Condor disables a Nazi ship, forcing the Germans to surrender. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Lou Fine (signed) | Inks: Lou Fine (signed) |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. As Senator Thomas Wright] Jed Hawks (death) The Japanese (villains, Some Die) The Nazis (villains) |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
At Eagle Squadron's field... |
Featuring: |
Spitfire |
Credits: |
Pencils: Al McWilliams (signed) | Inks: Al McWilliams (signed) |
Genre: |
Aviation |
Characters: |
Spitfire [Tex Adams] |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
President Orders Expulsion of 1200 Germans |
Featuring: |
Don Q |
Credits: |
Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed) | Inks: Vernon Henkel (signed) |
Genre: |
Spy |
Characters: |
Don Q |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Slap Happy Pappy |
Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] | Inks: Jack Cole [as Ralph Johns] |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Pen Miller |
Synopsis: |
Cartoonist Pen Miller and Chop Chu head to the waters of California to learn why so many freighters are being torpedoed, and discovers that Japanese submarines are being information as to the freighters routes and embarkation times. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Klaus Nordling [as Klaus] (signed) | Inks: Klaus Nordling [as Klaus] (signed) |
Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
Characters: |
Pen Miller Chop Chu (Pen's Chinese Houseboy) |
Comic Story (4 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Ned Brant |
Credits: |
Script: Bob Zuppke (signed) | Pencils: Walt DePew [as B. W. DePew] (signed) | Inks: Walt DePew [as B. W. DePew] (signed) |
Genre: |
Sports |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Molly The Model |
Credits: |
Script: John Devlin | Pencils: John Devlin | Inks: John Devlin |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Molly The Model |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Molly The Model |
Credits: |
Script: John Devlin | Pencils: John Devlin | Inks: John Devlin |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Molly The Model |
Comic Story (0 pages) |
Little Butch |
Featuring: |
Rube Goldberg's Side Show |
Credits: |
Script: Rube Goldberg | Pencils: Rube Goldberg | Inks: Rube Goldberg |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (0 pages) |
Brad and Dad |
Featuring: |
Rube Goldberg's Side Show |
Credits: |
Script: Rube Goldberg | Pencils: Rube Goldberg | Inks: Rube Goldberg |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (0 pages) |
Weekly Invention |
Featuring: |
Rube Goldberg's Side Show |
Credits: |
Script: Rube Goldberg | Pencils: Rube Goldberg | Inks: Rube Goldberg |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Hack O'Hara |
Synopsis: |
Hack picks up a lady fare, who mysteriously asks if he knows where she could pick up a skeleton......as part of a scavenger hunt. The fun and danger begins when she finds one. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Lou Fine | Inks: Lou Fine |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Hack O'Hara Un-named Lady Slugger Joe (villain) Doc (villain) |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Snappy |
Credits: |
Script: Arthur Beeman | Pencils: Arthur Beeman (signed) | Inks: Arthur Beeman |
Genre: |
Humor Children |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
From the blackness of a shadowy street... |
Featuring: |
Tor, the Magic Master |
Synopsis: |
Tor takes a page from Plastic Man and uses his arm to stretch out and capture his top-hatted foe, Doc Moke. |
Credits: |
Script: Fred Guardineer (signed) | Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed) | Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed) |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
Tor [Jim Slade] Officer Noonan Doc Moke (villain) |
Text Story (2 pages) |
The Flame Syndicate |
Featuring: |
Eric Vale |
Credits: |
Script: Larry Spain | Pencils: ? (illustrations) | Inks: ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Eric Vale |
Comic Story (3 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Jane Arden |
Credits: |
Script: Monte Barrett | Pencils: Russell Ross | Inks: Russell Ross |
Genre: |
Drama |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Lena Pry |
Credits: |
Script: Monte Barrett | Pencils: Russell Ross | Inks: Russell Ross |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (7 pages) |
License of a Murderer |
Featuring: |
The Clock |
Synopsis: |
The Clock searches for the murderer of the District Attorney, while Butch, known to have used a rat trap on the enemy, is terrified with fear in firing a real gun that falls into her hands. |
Credits: |
Script: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed) | Pencils: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed) | Inks: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed) |
Genre: |
Detective-mystery Superhero |
Characters: |
The Clock [Brian O'Brien] Butch Captain Kane Gong Gong Klanes (villain) Runt Mullay (villain) |
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