Issue Details

Issue	#31
Published	September 1942
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Harry Shorten

Cover Details

Characters	Shield; Hangman
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Irv Novick
Inks	Irv Novick

13 page Shield story "The Strangler and Snowbird"

Characters	Shield; The Strangler (villain); Snowbird (villain, introduction); Josef Goebbels (villain); Snakeyes Stiletti (villain, introduction)
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Woolfolk ?
Pencils	Irv Novick
Inks	Irv Novick
Notes	Snowbird snorts cocaine, possibly first such scene in comics.

12 page Hangman story "The Hangman and the Hunter"

Characters	Hangman; The Hunter (villain, introduction); Adolf Hitler; Hermann Goering; Der Henker (villain, introduction); Laval (villain, introduction); Johnny Gordon (Thelma's brother, introduction)
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Woolfolk ?
Pencils	Harry Lucey ?
Inks	Harry Lucey ?

1 page Hangman text story "Death Draws a Cartoon"

Characters	Hangman
Genre	superhero
Letters	typeset

10 page Captain Commando story "The Rescue of Armand's Father"

Characters	Captain Commando; Delatour (Andre's father, introduction); Nazis
Script	S. M. Iger
Pencils	Alex Blum
Inks	Alex Blum

6 page Danny In Wonderland story "The Death of Snapper"

Characters	Snapper (death); Mother Nature (introduction); Father Time (introduction)
Script	Harry Shorten
Pencils	Red Holmdale
Inks	Red Holmdale

8 page Sergeant Boyle story "Back In New York"

Characters	Sergeant Boyle; Harry Shorten; Carl Hubbell; Lulu (villain); spies
Synopsis	Boyle and Twerp visit the MLJ offices.
Script	Harry Shorten
Pencils	Carl Hubbell
Inks	Carl Hubbell

1 page Shield text story "Melodies of Murder"

Characters	Shield
Genre	superhero
Letters	typeset

6 page Archie story "Archie Goes to Congress"

Characters	Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Burton K. Lodge (introduction)
Synopsis	Veronica takes Archie to the airport to meet her father, and through a series of mixups Archie winds up representing his state on a congressional committee.
Genre	teen
Script	Bob Montana
Pencils	Bob Montana
Inks	Bob Montana
Notes	In this story, Burton Lodge (who would later be renamed Hiram) is an elected official who works in Washington DC.
Reprinted	in Archie: His First 50 Years (Abbeville Press, 1991 series) #[nn]; in Archie Americana Series, Best Of The Forties (Archie, 1991 series) #1

6 page Bentley of Scotland Yard story "The Church-Steeple Murders"

Characters	Bentley; Anne Crivet (villain, introduction, death); Harkness (introduction, death); Jim Crivet; Dr. Tass; a sexton
Genre	detective
Script	Joe Blair
Pencils	Paul Reinman
Inks	Paul Reinman