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Issue Details

Issue	#40
Published	July 1943
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	60
Editing	Harry Shorten

Cover Details

Pencils	Bob Montana
Inks	Bob Montana

11 page Shield story "Introducing Monstro, the Monster From Mars"

Characters	I: Monstro (a Martian)
Pencils	Irv Novick
Inks	Irv Novick

10 page Hangman story "The Case of the Singing Corpse"

Characters	V: Phillips (I); I: Herb Cook (D; in fb), Rosalind Cook (D)
Pencils	Bob Fujitani
Inks	Bob Fujitani

2 page Shield, The text story "Blackmail"

Characters	The Shield
Letters	typeset

7 page Captain Commando story "The Conga Goes To War"

Characters	V: A Japanese soldier (I, D), a tribe of Africans (I, some D)
Pencils	Irv Novick
Inks	Irv Novick

6 page Catfish Joe story "The Peerless Pitcher of Mudcat"

Characters	I: Catfish Joe, his mother, Alex, Prof. Otto K. Balderdash; V: A prison warden and the sheriff of Mudcat (I for both)
Script	Larry Harris?
Pencils	Larry Harris
Inks	Larry Harris

6 page Li'l Chief Bugaboo story "The Mountain Lion"

Characters	I: Li'l Chief Bugaboo
Script	Theresa Woik?
Pencils	Higgins
Inks	Higgins

6 page Archie story "Batching It"

Pencils	Harry Sahle?
Inks	Harry Sahle?

5 page Bentley of Scotland Yard story "Adventure of the Inner Temple"

Characters	V: Ridgely (I, D), the "Sphinx Men" (I); I: Edwin Meecham, Haskins (both D), Lewis
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Gil Kane