Digital Comic Museum - Silver Streak Comics 021 (paper)


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May 1942 Lev Gleason Comic House
all Paper, c2c Prime Wolverton Scoop Scuttle, Prime Everett Red Reed, choice Briefer Pirate Prince.
Hitler caricature on cover, where the 1st Saint page starts.

Issue: #21
Published: May 1942, 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, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	The Saint
Credits:	Script: Leslie Charteris (on Saint strip) (signed) \| Pencils: ?; Bernard Klein ? (Saint page); Edd Ashe ? \| Inks: ?; Bernard Klein ? (Saint page); Edd Ashe ?
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	The Saint [Simon Templar] Un-named Professor Kapitan Gunther Adolf Hitler The Nazis Captain Battle [Jonathan Battle] (inset) Red Reed (inset) "Scoop" Scuttle (inset) Dickie Dean (inset)

Comic Story (13 pages)
Featuring:	The Saint
Credits:	Script: Leslie Charteris (signed) \| Pencils: Bernard Klein ?; Edd Ashe ? \| Inks: Bernard Klein ?; Edd Ashe ?
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	The Saint [Simon Templar] Un-named Professor Winston Churchill Franklin D. Roosevelt Adolf Hitler (villain) Kapitan Gunther (villain) The Nazis (villains)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Secret Radio Messages
Featuring:	Ned of the Navy
Credits:	Pencils: Irv Watanabe [as Hitoshi Watanabe] (signed) \| Inks: Irv Watanabe [as Hitoshi Watanabe] (signed)
Genre:	Adventure Military War
Characters:	Ned Hale

Comic Story (8 pages)	The Spells of Black Magic
Featuring:	Captain Battle
Credits:	Pencils: Jack Binder \| Inks: Jack Binder

Comic Story (5 pages)	Farmers Are Important Men
Featuring:	Alonzo Appleseed
Credits:	Script: Jack Warren ? \| Pencils: Jack Warren [as Alonzo] (signed) \| Inks: Jack Warren

Cartoon (2 pages)	The City Slicker Who Slept Late
Credits:	Script: Ron Santi (signed) \| Pencils: Ron Santi (signed) \| Inks: Ron Santi (signed)
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Black Mask
Featuring:	Pirate Prince
Credits:	Pencils: Dick Briefer \| Inks: Dick Briefer
Characters:	The Black Mask (Intro)

Text Story (3 pages)
Featuring:	Fun
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (4 pages)	Opera Star or Pickpocket Pincher?
Featuring:	Scoop Scuttle
Credits:	Script: Basil Wolverton \| Pencils: Basil Wolverton \| Inks: Basil Wolverton

Text Story (2 pages)	Crimebuster Meets the Mysterious Dr. Kusu
Featuring:	Crimebuster
Credits:	Script: Dick Wood \| Letters: Typeset

Comic Story (7 pages)
Featuring:	Dickie Dean, the Boy Inventor
Credits:	Script: Bob Wood ?
Genre:	Adventure Humor
Characters:	Dickie Dean Zip Todd Senator Birro

Comic Story (8 pages)
Featuring:	Red Reed in the Americas
Synopsis:	Red, Jose and Molly head for the capital city of Elcador to take on Zano and his Nazi-led men. But they are soon captured and imprisoned in a house once owned by a friend of theirs. They find a secret panel which enables them to escape and head for the mountain fortress of the Elcador leader, General Cados.
Credits:	Script: Bob Davis ? (credited)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Red Reed Jose Navarro Mollie Day Jose's Father (Elcador's Chief Of Police) Garcia Lumpenhunde (death) General Pancho Zano (villain, Bandit) Manuel (villain) Herr Otto Von Gruber (villain) Herr Kurtz (villain) The Nazis (villains)

Illustration (1 page)
Featuring:	The Saint
Credits:	Pencils: Edd Ashe (signed) \| Inks: Edd Ashe (signed)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	The Saint [Simon Templar]

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