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Issue: #2
Published: August 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ed Cronin
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was On-going Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Neon the Unknown
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Fine \| Inks: Lou Fine
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Neon The Unknown [Tom Corbet] The Nazis

Comic Story (7 pages)	A Town's Ransom
Featuring:	Hercules
Synopsis:	Hercules battles saboteurs who blow up a school and a dam.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Greg Powers] (signed) \| Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich (signed) \| Inks: Dan Zolnerowich (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Hercules [Joe Hercules] Mr. Portle (introduction, Science Teacher) Un-named Town Mayor Crinch (villain, Introduction, Town Board Member)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Assignment: Ruina
Featuring:	X-5 Super Agent
Credits:	Script: Will Eisner [as Cary Weyt] \| Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	X-5 The Black Guards (Intro, Villains)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Baby on the Doorstep
Featuring:	Jack and Jill
Synopsis:	Someone leaves a baby on the Doe's doorstep. Hijinks, including gunplay, ensue.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Lowell Riggs] \| Pencils: John Lindermayer ? \| Inks: John Lindermayer ?
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Jack Doe Jill Doe Rocky Ford (villain, Intro) Slobber Mike (villain, Intro) Stella Ford (intro) Butch Ford (intro)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Phantom Scaffold
Featuring:	Old Witch
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pierre Winter] (signed) \| Pencils: Pierre Winter \| Inks: Pierre Winter
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	The Witch

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Escape of Roderick Strange
Featuring:	The Strange Twins
Synopsis:	Rod captures Doug and takes his place.
Credits:	Script: S. M. Iger [as S. M. Regi] \| Pencils: Alex Blum \| Inks: Alex Blum
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Doug Strange Rod Strange (villain) Wing Low (villain) Wendy Hale

Text Story (2 pages)	Tyrant's Death
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum \| Letters: Typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Hospital Grafters
Featuring:	The Red Bee
Synopsis:	The Red Bee must combat an influenza plague that infects the city since the hospitals can't afford to give treatment because city coffers have been bled dry by grafting politicians led by Al Snead.
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum ? \| Pencils: Charles Nicholas [as B. H. Apiary] (signed) \| Inks: Charles Nicholas [as B. H. Apiary] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] (Assistant District Attorney) Tom Darrow (District Attorney) Captain Dooley Michael (the Red Bee's Bee) Al Snead (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Costa Rica Shore Leave
Featuring:	Bob and Swab
Credits:	Script: Klaus Nordling (signed) \| Pencils: Klaus Nordling (signed) \| Inks: Klaus Nordling (signed)
Genre:	Adventure Humor
Characters:	Bob Masters Swab Decker Nina Costa (intro)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Railroad Saboteurs
Featuring:	Casey Jones
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pad Docke] \| Pencils: Munson Paddock \| Inks: Munson Paddock
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Casey Jones

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Venusian Expedition
Featuring:	Blaze Barton
Synopsis:	After the Earth has been burned to a cinder, from passing too close to the Subn, Blaze has to face a group of monsters emerging from Earth's core.
Credits:	Script: ? [as Roy Talon] (signed) \| Pencils: Henry Kiefer \| Inks: Henry Kiefer
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Blaze Barton (assistant Of Professor Solis) Professor Solis Betty Solis Venusians (introduction) The Bat Men King Of The Core-Men (villain) Core-men (villains)

Comic Story (2 pages)	Max the Toy Lion
Featuring:	Tommy Tinkle
Credits:	Script: ? [as Sandy Klauz] \| Pencils: Pauline Comanor \| Inks: Pauline Comanor
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Tommy Tinkle Mary Lou The Professor Max (a Toy Lion, Intro) King Neptune Snipp (intro, Villain) And Snapp (intro, Villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Defeat of Radolf
Featuring:	Neon the Unknown
Synopsis:	Neon heads for Dunland to free the inhabitants of a concentration camp in Dunland from the evil and tyranical rule of a dictator.
Credits:	Script: S. M. Iger [as Tagor Maroy] (signed) \| Pencils: Alex Blum \| Inks: Alex Blum
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Neon [Tom Corbet] Radolf (villain, Introduction)

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