Volume: #1, Issue: #1
Published: August 1938, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Cover; Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Skyrocket Steele cover only, feature begins in issue #2
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1938 Periodicals, page 259.
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| Comic Story (8 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Seascout Tom Dawson comes aboard an old schooner to examine the workings of the ship, and discovers that she is running contraband armaments. He is locked in the hold while the ship gets underway, then released once well out to sea. He manages to send a message in Morse Code to a nearby steamship, which results in the ship being taken when reaching its South American destination. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Tom Dawson |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Border War |
| Synopsis: |
Nakovia and Batamia go to war over a border dispute. soldiers of fortune rush to the scene of conflict to offer their services. Tom Campbell receives a captain's commission in the Nakovian Army, and is placed in charge of the country's air force, which consists of three planes only. Shot down over enemy territory he is placed in prison, but escapes under cover of night, and blows up the munitions dump. |
| Genre: |
Adventure Aviation |
| Characters: |
Tom Campbell, American Soldier Of Fortune Pflueger |
| Comic Story (9 pages) |
The Yellow Terror |
| Synopsis: |
Noted scientist Dr. Eddy and his family are preparing to return to the States after a stint working in China. Sunny, his daughter, is attacked by agents but escapes by diving into the river. There she finds Brown, an American who had been sent to buy Eddy's new formula, tied up in a boat and robbed. They free themselves, and while the Eddys are being threatened by Oriental agents, Sunny swims across the river and brings back the harbor patrol boat. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Dr. Eddy Dr. Froz Mrs. Eddy Sunny Eddy Lotus Monk Brown |
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