Issue: #4
Published: July 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indexed from a copy with "3/3/44" written in pencil on back cover, presumably an on-sale date.
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Cover (1 page) |
Loaded with Action! |
Featuring: |
Kid Terrific |
Credits: |
Pencils: Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] | Inks: Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |
Genre: |
Adventure Superhero |
Characters: |
Kid Terrific Jimmie |
Comic Story (9 pages) |
Crime in the Everglades |
Featuring: |
Kid Terrific and Jimmie |
Synopsis: |
Murray Calvin, a Broadway columnist hires Kid Terrific (but not Jimmie) to go down to the Florida swamps to investigate a haunted house. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Tom Van Buren | Inks: Tom Van Buren |
Genre: |
Adventure Superhero |
Characters: |
Kid Terrific Jimmie Murray Calvin Louie Barrow |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
Hollywood Holiday |
Featuring: |
Boomerang |
Synopsis: |
Captain Raleigh and Diana are out for a sail when they come across an American submarine, with a German film director in charge of a group of Nazi sympathizers. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] | Inks: Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |
Genre: |
Adventure Superhero |
Characters: |
Boomerang [Captain Lloyd Raleigh] Diana Fritz Kurtzer |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Comics McCormick |
Synopsis: |
Comics settles in to read some comics when his sister brings home her new beau, Corporal Tom Manley. In his dreams, Comics quickly recognizes him as Captain Catapult and, together, they capture all the mob bosses in town and take them to the police. |
Credits: |
Script: Ed Wheelan (signed) | Pencils: Ed Wheelan (signed) | Inks: Ed Wheelan (signed) | Letters: Ed Wheelan |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Comics McCormick Captain Catapult [Tom Manley] |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
Death on Ice! |
Featuring: |
Molly O'Moore and Scoop Scanlon |
Synopsis: |
Molly goes on vacation at a ski lodge and runs into Scoop. Together they discover a body frozen in ice. |
Credits: |
Script: Ken Fitch | Pencils: Nina Albright | Inks: Nina Albright |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Molly O'Moore Scoop Scanlon Blake Thompson |
Text Story (2 pages) |
Way of a Rogue |
Credits: |
Letters: Typeset |
Genre: |
Crime |
Characters: |
Melvin Blake |
Comic Story (7 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Juggernaut |
Synopsis: |
Juggernaut gets a job at the Dorgan Mill, and then is fired when the guy who runs the mill suspects he might know something about the plan to wreck a train. |
Credits: |
Pencils: George Appel [as G. H. Appel] | Inks: George Appel [as G. H. Appel] |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Juggernaut Gwen Barnes Roy Lacy |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
Phantom Bridegroom |
Synopsis: |
Joe Matthews is killed the day before he is supposed to marry Dorothy Hamilton. She goes to a mental asylum, insisting that Joe keeps calling her. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Alderman | Inks: Jack Alderman |
Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
Characters: |
Dorothy Hamilton Joe Matthews |
Comic Story (6 pages) |
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Featuring: |
Buck 'n Broncho |
Synopsis: |
Lucille Traymore is crowned Miss America and as soon as the crown is placed on her head, she dies. Buck and Broncho solve the murder thanks to Rajah, their monkey, taking film footage of the murderer disposing of the murder weapon... the crown! |
Credits: |
Pencils: Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] | Inks: Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |
Genre: |
Adventure |
Characters: |
Buck Jordan Broncho Boyd Rajah Lucille Traymore |
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