Issue: #14
Published: December 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: John Beardsley
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interiors Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Copyright 1942 by Comic Magazines, Inc.
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. 4.
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Comic Story (10 pages) |
The Mark of the Cobra |
Featuring: |
Manhunter |
Synopsis: |
The producer at the opera is bumped off by a poisonous spring needle in his opera seat. The evil masked Cobra, and his pet King (which manages to tag Manhunter), turn to leave when Thor charges them and is shot by the Cobra's men. The snake, having used most of its venom on his first victim, couldn't stop the wounded, bleeding dog from crawling over to his master and reviving him, who then unmasked the Cobra in the dark after he had ambushed the Police. |
Credits: |
Pencils: Vernon Henkel |
Genre: |
Superhero |
Characters: |
Manhunter [Dan Richards] Thor Sergeant Clancy The Cobra [Hal Kant] (villain, Introduction) King (villain, The Cobra's Pet Snake) |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Burp The Twerp |
Credits: |
Script: Jack Cole | Pencils: Jack Cole | Inks: Jack Cole |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Super Snooper |
Credits: |
Script: Gill Fox | Pencils: Gill Fox | Inks: Gill Fox | Letters: Gill Fox ? |
Genre: |
Humor |
Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Escape of Goon McGirk |
Featuring: |
#711 |
Synopsis: |
Dyce's carelessness ultimately leads to his demise at the hands of racketeer, Oscar Jones, who shoots and kills #711. Jone's ignonoble life and how his prison stay leads him to fisticuffs with #711, in which Jones wins out only with the benefit of his gun. Even after the first shot, the wounded Dyce fights to rally, but is eventually cut down with more shots that riddle his body. |
Credits: |
Script: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed) | Pencils: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed) | Inks: George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed) |
Genre: |
Adventure Crime |
Characters: |
#711 [Daniel Dyce] (death) Goon McGirk (villain, Inmate) Oscar Jones (villain, Inmate, Racketeer) |
Text Story (2 pages) |
Who Killed Jed Hathaway? |
Featuring: |
Dick Mace |
Credits: |
Script: Robert Hyatt ? | Letters: typeset |
Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
Characters: |
Dick Mace |
Comic Story (8 pages) |
Enter Julio |
Featuring: |
Chic Carter |
Credits: |
Pencils: Vernon Henkel | Inks: Vernon Henkel |
Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
Comic Story (1 page) |
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Featuring: |
Dewey Drip |
Credits: |
Script: John Devlin ? | Pencils: John Devlin | Inks: John Devlin |
Genre: |
Humor |
Characters: |
Dewey Drip |
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