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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