Issue: #3
Published: April 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Abner Sundell
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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.
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| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Pawn of "Satan" |
| Featuring: |
Comet |
| Synopsis: |
The Comet returns home after working with the police. Drugged as he sleeps and kidnapped, traveling for five days he arrives in California and Satan's clutches. The Comet is hypnotized, after three days, by Zadar to hate the law, hate the police and to kill anyone who stands in his way. The Comet begins to rob and kill for Zadar and Satan. Suddenly Zadar finds out Satan was cheating him. Zadar commands The Comet to Kill Satan. After Satan is dead, The Comet returns to Zadar, but forgets to lower his lens and disintegrates him, breaking the trance. The Comet realizes he's now an outlaw. |
| Credits: |
Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole | Letters: Jack Cole |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Comet [John Dickering] "Satan" (villain, Introduction, Death) Zadar (villain, Introduction, Death) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Escape from Germany |
| Featuring: |
Sergeant Boyle |
| Credits: |
Script: Abner Sundell [as Sundell] (signed) | Pencils: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) | Inks: Charles Biro [as Biro] (signed) |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Sergeant Boyle The Nazis (villains) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
The Sub Formula Spies |
| Featuring: |
Midshipman |
| Credits: |
Script: Bob Wood ? | Pencils: Edd Ashe | Inks: Edd Ashe |
| Characters: |
Midshipman Lee Samson |
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