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Silver Streak Comics #13
August 1941
NO Inside Back Cover
Captain Battle Cover (Jack Binder)
Capt. Battle (Jack Binder and CarlFormes)
Silver Streak and Meteor the Boy Speed-King (Don Rico) The Adventure of the Laughing Hyena
Cloud Curtis and his Golden Bullet (Jack Binder and Carl Formes)
Capt. Battle in Quick Revenge or You Can't Do that to My Buddy (3pg text story)
The Pirate Prince (Richard Norman)
Lance Hale (Fred Guardineer)
Dickie-Dean the Boy-Inventor (Dick Hamilton)
Thun-Dohr (Jeff Remon) Origin
Presto Martin - Quick Change Detective (Bob Wood) The Riddle of the Missing Bullet
Daredevil (Don Rico) the Affair of the Scarlet Skull
x2 Promo pages from this issue |
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rangerhouse |
| Comment: |
Red (Scarlet) Skull vs Daredevil
Looks allot like the Red Skull of Marvel fame.. |
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Issue: #13
Published: August 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Lev Gleason
Color: Full Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-Stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4.
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| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade |
| Synopsis: |
Illustrated advertisement for Captain Battle's Boys' Brigade, with coupon, for readers to mail in with ten cents to join the brigade. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Text Story (3 pages) |
Quick Revenge, or, You Can't Do That To My Buddy |
| Featuring: |
Captain Battle |
| Synopsis: |
Captain Battle learns of a crooked roulette wheel at work, conning military men out of their hard earned money, so he and Hale take action by busting up the wheel and rounding up those responsible. |
| Credits: |
Script: Otto Binder ? | Pencils: Jack Binder (spot illustrations) | Inks: Jack Binder (spot illustrations) | Letters: Typeset |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] Hale Battle Un-named Bouncer (villain) Un-named Beer-dive Owner (villain) |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Treasure Map |
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The Pirate Prince |
| Synopsis: |
The Prince fishes a bottle out of the ocean, which contains an incomplete treasure map. Accidentally knocked overboard, he then dreams of seeing the treasure, landing on an island and meeting someone who tells him that he will get clues to the missing pieces of the map from weird beings on the island. |
| Genre: |
Adventure Historical |
| Characters: |
The Pirate Prince |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
Boys and Girls, Win $100 in Cash Prizes |
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Silver Streak contest |
| Synopsis: |
Illustrated promotion from the publisher, with Silver Streak #12 cover shown, for a new contest, offering a $50 1st Prize, $10 2nd Prize, five $5 3rd Prizes, and twenty-five $1 4th Prizes. First, readers are asked to answer this question in 100 words or less: "Which feature do you like best in Silver Streak Comics and why?". Secondly, also in 100 words or less, readers are asked, "How I get all my friends to buy Silver Streak Comics". All letters were to be postmarked by August 9, 1941. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Rico (cover); ? | Inks: Don Rico (cover); ? | Letters: ?; most typeset |
| Characters: |
Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] (inset) The Silver Streak [unknown Taxi Cab Driver] (inset) |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
The Mad Elephant |
| Featuring: |
Lance Hale |
| Synopsis: |
Driven mad with pain, a wounded African elephant runs rampant through the Meru village, and inhabitants contact Lance, hoping he could stop the destructive beast. In the process of doing so, Lance saves the daughter of the Meru chief several times. |
| Credits: |
Letters: Fred Guardineer ? |
| Genre: |
Adventure Jungle |
| Characters: |
Lance Hale Un-named Chief Of Meru Tribe Nada (Meru Chief's Daughter) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Dickie Dean, the Boy Inventor |
| Synopsis: |
Dickie invents a photo-lightning machine that can generate a bolt of lightning that can hit any spot within a radius of miles. He takes it in to the offices of Kent Burk and Endicott to get it patented, not realizing an imposter is on hand to steal the invention and get it to Professor Blankhorne. |
| Credits: |
Script: Dick Wood [as Dick Hamilton] (signed) | Pencils: Fred Schwab ? | Inks: Fred Schwab ? |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Dickie Dean Zip Todd Professor Blankhorne (villain, Introduction, Death) C.B. Wolf (villain, Death) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Origin of Thun-Dohr |
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Thun-Dohr |
| Synopsis: |
At a monastary in ancient Tibet, a young American Lama, now called Thun-Dohr, is summoned by the Dalai Lama and told the story of a white search party that met its fate looking for Lha-I-Ha......there was one survivor, a young baby, brought to the Dalai Lama. This young man is told he was then trained, in mind and body, in the arts of the Gom-pa, and that, now, he must undergo the tests of the Potala. He passes and is given a bracelet of gold that connects the spirits of himself and the Dalai Lama, who will fight evil together....in spirit. |
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Script: ? [as Jeff Remon] (signed) | Pencils: ? [as Jeff Remon] (signed) | Inks: ? [as Jeff Remon] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Thun-Dohr (introduction, Origin) Un-named Parents Of Thun-Dohr (both Die) The Dalai Lama Dr. Benson Bell (death) Sin Khaii (villain, Introduction) Clavell (Professor Bell's Assistant, Made Evil By The Black Madness) |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Captain Battle Comics |
| Synopsis: |
Illustrated promotional advertisement for the first issue of Captain Battle Comics, including the titles of the three Captain Battle stories with synopses. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] |
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