Issue: #1
Published: [May 14] 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: France Herron
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior; Color Cover Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries; Part 1; Group 2; Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, Etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Deliveries, Maps; 1941; New Series; Volume 38; Number 6. Copyright number: AA 368742.
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| Comic Story (16 pages) |
The Redemption of Major Von Hartz |
| Featuring: |
Minute Man |
| Synopsis: |
Major Hart wants to put his past of spying for Nazi Germany behind him, but foreign agents try to persuade him otherwise by kidnapping his father and forcing him to do anything he can to embarrass America's army. His first assignment is to betray Fort Stonewall. Minute Man tells the major to go along with their plans while he attempts to rescue the soldier's father. |
| Credits: |
Script: Otto Binder ? | Pencils: Charles Sultan | Inks: Charles Sultan |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Minute Man [Jack Weston] Army General Milton Major Hart [a.k.a. Major Von Hartz] Major Hart's Father Nazi Foreign Agents (villains) |
| Comic Story (14 pages) |
No Rest for Minute Man |
| Featuring: |
Minute Man |
| Synopsis: |
Minute Man saves a young lad from Nazi agents while aboard a train and hears from the lad that a crooked political boss named Shuker is involved with those same agents who plan to use devious means for him to be elected first, governor of the state, then dictator. What Shuker doesn't know is that those same agents plan to control the government themselves and use Shuker only as a figure head. |
| Credits: |
Script: Otto Binder ? | Pencils: Charles Sultan | Inks: Charles Sultan |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Minute Man [Jack Weston] Gloria (Shuker's Secretary) Shuker (villain, Crooked Political Boss) Nazi Agents (villains, Some Die) |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Triumph of Time |
| Synopsis: |
Following Public Enemy Number Three, Red Kozlik, to Ekstrom Laboratories, New York rookie policeman O'Grady comes face to face with Ekstrom, who is being held at gun point by the nefarious criminal. Kozlik insists that the professor use his newly invented time machine to send Kozlik back to August 18, 1921. The professor does, but Kozlik discovers that fate has a way of settling old scores. |
| Credits: |
Script: Gerry de la Ree (as Jerry de la Ree) (signed) | Pencils: ? (spot illustration) | Inks: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
Danny O'Grady (rookie Policeman) Professor Ekstrom Red Kozlik (villain, Death) |
| Comic Story (15 pages) |
Illyria, Queen of Spies |
| Featuring: |
Minute Man |
| Synopsis: |
Jack Weston is sent to Barracoon, an island in the Gulf of Mexico that the U.S. government has just purchased for use as a naval base. However, Minute Man must contend with Illyria and her agents who plan to stop the building of the base by stirring up the ancient voodoo deviltry that the island is noted for. |
| Credits: |
Script: Otto Binder ? | Pencils: Charles Sultan | Inks: Charles Sultan |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Minute Man [Jack Weston] General Milton Lady Illyria (villain, Queen Of Foreign Spies) |
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