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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published May 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Abner Sundell

Cover Details

Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick

11 page Shield story "The Mosconian Menace: Part 2"

Characters GS: The Wizard, Keith Kornell (the West Pointer); GA: J. Edgar Hoover; V: The Mosconians
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick
Notes continued from TOP NOTCH COMICS #?; continued in Midshipman story

7 page Comet story "The Village of the Doomed"

Characters V: Riley (I, D); I: Mr. Cricket
Synopsis Comet is still an outlaw
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole

6 page Press Guardian story "The Graft Ring Killers"

Characters V: Walton (I, D)
Script Abner Sundell
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin

6 page Fu Chang story "Ling Foy's Warriors of Brass"

Characters V: Princess Lin Foy (I, D) and her robots (I, D)
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter

7 page Sergeant Boyle story "The Rescue of Battalion A"

Characters V: The Nazis
Script Abner Sundell
Pencils Charles Biro
Inks Charles Biro

6 page Midshipman story "The Mosconian Menace: Part 3"

Characters GS: The Wizard; V: The Mosconians
Script Bob Wood?
Pencils Bob Wood?
Inks Bob Wood?
Notes continued from Shield story, continued in TOP NOTCH COMICS #?

6 page Rocket and the Queen of Diamonds story "City of the Hawkmen"

Characters V: The Lizardmen and their king, the Ape Men (I for all); I: The Hawkmen, Prince Falkar
Script Abner Sundell
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter
Notes continued next issue

1 page text story "Giants of the West"

Letters typeset

6 page Kayo Ward story "Silko and the Racketeers"

Characters I: Billy Ward (Kayo's brother), Mr. and Mrs. John Ward (Kayo's parents); V: Silko (I)
Script Harry Shorten?
Pencils Phil Sturm
Inks Phil Sturm

6 page Bentley of Scotland Yard story "The Hunchback Horror"

Characters V: The Earl of Crackenthorpe (I); I: Lady Brenda
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Sam Cooper
Inks Sam Cooper