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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published September 1938
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Notes Pencils and inks were originally credited to Leo O'Mealia. Creig Flessel confirmed to Scott Bonagofsky in 2007 that it was one of his covers. Correction was submitted by Scott Bonagofsky on July 20, 2008.

Cover Details

Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel
Notes Pencils and inks were originally credited to Leo O'Mealia. Creig Flessel confirmed to Scott Bonagofsky in 2007 that it was one of his covers. Correction was submitted by Scott Bonagofsky on July 20, 2008.

6 page Speed Saunders story "The Grogan Case"

Characters V: Dave Grogan (I, D), Gus (I)
Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer

6 page Inspector Kent story "The Invisibility Formula"

Characters I: Inspector Kent, Dr. Ronald Wainwright (D), Wendy Foster, Henry Adams; V: The Raven (I)
Genre detective
Pencils George Newman
Inks George Newman

6 page Larry Steele story "The Island of Wanatoba: Part 1"

Characters V: En Rico (I)
Genre detective
Script Will Ely
Pencils Will Ely
Inks Will Ely
Notes story in black and white

8 page Spy story "Mirror of Doom"

Characters V: Rosa Rinaldo (I, D)
Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster
Notes Bart Regan and Sally Norris ALMOST get married!

4 page Dr. Fu Manchu story "The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu: Part 3"

Genre adventure
Script Sax Rohmer
Pencils Leo O'Mealia
Inks Leo O'Mealia
Letters typeset
Notes strip reprints; adapted from THE INSIDIOUS DR. FU MANCHU by Sax Rohmer

2 page text story "A Dead Case"

Script Gardner Fox (Paul Dean)
Letters typeset

6 page Bruce Nelson story "The Coolie Smugglers (Part 3)"

Characters V: Captain Carstairs
Genre detective
Script Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson?
Pencils Tom Hickey
Inks Tom Hickey

6 page Cosmo story "The Air Pirates and the S.S. ALMOA"

Characters V: A band of pirates (I); I: Carlo Di Milo, Capt. Bartlett
Pencils Sven Elven
Inks Sven Elven

6 page Steve Malone story "Luigi Ferrini Strikes"

Characters V: Luigi Ferrini (I)
Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox
Notes story in black and white

13 page Slam Bradley story "In Africa"

Characters I: Betty Gladstone, Mr. Gladstone; V: The "Beast-Man" (I, D)
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster
Notes title from last issue blurb

1 page Puzzles activity

Script Arthur W. Nugent
Pencils Arthur W. Nugent
Inks Arthur W. Nugent
Notes may be out of order in this book

1 page Crime Never Pays filler

Script Don Vincent
Pencils Don Vincent
Inks Don Vincent
Notes may be out of order in this book