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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published January 1941
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Abner Sundell

Cover Details

Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick

13 page Shield story "Dusty, the Spectacular Boy Detective"

Characters I & O: Dusty (the Shield's partner; appears in all stories hereafter); I: Dusty's father (D); V: The Vulture (I)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick

6 page Comet story "The Pencils of Doom: Part 1"

Characters V: A gang of saboteurs (I)
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter
Notes Comet still a fugitive

6 page Press Guardian story "The Illegal Immigration Racket"

Characters V: Tonetti (I); I: Peter LaFlamme
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Notes last appearance

6 page Fu Chang story "Adventure of the Jade Buddha"

Characters V: Ha-Ri (I); I: Abbot of Chak-Ku
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter
Notes last appearance

7 page Sergeant Boyle story "The Robot Tanks"

Characters V: The Nazis, a Swiss pilot (I)
Script Charles Biro?
Pencils Charles Biro
Inks Charles Biro

6 page Midshipman story "Case of the Switched Suitcases"

Characters V: Clip, Hopper (I for both)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin

6 page Rocket and the Queen of Diamonds story "Pirate Island"

Characters GS: Gen. Schmutzpuss and the Pigwidgeons; V: Bluebeard (I)
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter

1 page text story "Free Tonguin'"

Letters typeset

6 page Kayo Ward story "Carnival of Revenge"

Characters V: Rupy La Vez, Ronnie Slick, Bucktooth Brown (I), Slugger Brown (I); I: Sen. Popoff
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Bob Wood
Inks Bob Wood

6 page Bentley of Scotland Yard story "The Riddle of the Whirring Wings"

Characters V: John Farrell (I); I: Sir Cecil Farrell (D), Anne Farrell, Bob Farrell, Stiles
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Sam Cooper
Inks Sam Cooper