Digital Comic Museum - Pep Comics 40 (1943)


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Issue: #40
Published: July 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 60, Editing: Harry Shorten
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US 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, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Shield
Credits:	Pencils: Bob Montana \| Inks: Bob Montana
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Shield [Joe Higgins] Dusty

Comic Story (11 pages)	Introducing Monstro, the Monster From Mars
Featuring:	The Original Shield and Dusty The Boy Detective
Synopsis:	A man from Mars comes to Earth, but folks think it's another Orson Wells gag.
Credits:	Pencils: Irv Novick (signed) \| Inks: Irv Novick (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Shield [Joe Higgins] Dusty Monstro (introduction, A Martian)

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Case of the Singing Corpse
Featuring:	The Hangman
Synopsis:	A radio announcer and control man are murdered, while they are on the air.
Credits:	Pencils: Bob Fujitani [as Bob Fuje] \| Inks: Bob Fujitani [as Bob Fuje]
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Hangman [Bob Dickering] Thelma Gordon Phillips (villain, Introduction) Herb Cook (introduction, Death In Flashback) Rosalind Cook (introduction, Death)

Text Story (2 pages)	Blackmail
Featuring:	The Shield
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Characters:	The Shield

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Conga Goes To War
Featuring:	Captain Commando And The Boy Soldiers
Synopsis:	Captain Commando and the Boy Soldiers' transport ship has sunk off the Solomon Islands.
Credits:	Pencils: Irv Novick (signed) \| Inks: Irv Novick (signed)
Genre:	Military Superhero
Characters:	Captain Commando The Boy Soldiers [Flatbush Billy Percy Armand] A Japanese Captain (villain, Introduction, Death) A Tribe Of South Sea Islanders (introductions, Some Deaths)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Peerless Pitcher of Mudcat
Featuring:	Catfish Joe
Credits:	Script: Larry Harris \| Pencils: Larry Harris \| Inks: Larry Harris \| Letters: Larry Harris ?
Characters:	Catfish Joe (introduction) His Mother (introduction) Alex (introduction) Prof. Otto K. Balderdash (introduction) A Prison Warden (villain, Introduction) The Sheriff Of Mudcat (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Mountain Lion
Featuring:	Li'l Chief Bugaboo
Synopsis:	Bugaboo meets a mountain lion.
Credits:	Script: Dave Higgins ? \| Pencils: Higgins \| Inks: Higgins
Characters:	Li'l Chief Bugaboo (introduction) Fido (introduction) Bugaboo's Mother Bugaboo's Brother

Comic Story (6 pages)	Batching It
Featuring:	Archie
Synopsis:	Archie and Mr. Andrews run the house while Mrs. Andrews is on vacation. Unfortunately, the guys are not the best housekeepers.
Credits:	Script: Harry Sahle \| Pencils: Harry Sahle
Characters:	Archie Andrews Fred Andrews Mrs. Andrews

Comic Story (5 pages)	Adventure of the Inner Temple
Featuring:	Bentley of Scotland Yard
Synopsis:	Bentley tells a story of what happened while he was in Egypt a few years earlier.
Credits:	Pencils: Gil Kane \| Inks: Gil Kane
Genre:	Adventure Detective-mystery
Characters:	Inspector J. Bentley Ridgely (villain, Introduction, Death) The "Sphinx Men" (villains, Introductions) Edwin Meecham (introduction, Death) Haskins (introduction, Death) Lewis (introduction)

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