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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1941
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 100
Editing France Herron
Notes Some sources (Golden Age Comics at http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/index.php?cid=3|) list the publication date as March 1941. Roy Thomas reports Fall 1941, in Error Report #2568. Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (35th Ed) lists May? 1941.

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Spy Smasher; Bulletman [Jim Barr]; Minute Man; Mr. Scarlet
Genre Superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #25; in Shazam! Archives, The (DC, 1992 series) #3 (November 2002)

20 page Captain Marvel story "Ghost of the Deep"

Characters Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Sterling Morris; Hugo (first appearance; villain; death); Ghost of the Deep [Spriggins] (first appearance; villain; death)
Synopsis The Ghost of the Deep is sinking U.S. battleships.
Genre Superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #25; in Shazam! Archives, The (DC, 1992 series) #3 (November 2002)

18 page Bulletman story "The Riddle of the Ages"

Characters The Invisible Man (villain, introduction)
Genre superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #25

2 page text story "Death Doesn't Whisper"

Script Joseph J. Millard
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #25

18 page Minute Man story "Minute Man Meets Mr. Skeleton"

Characters Mr. Skeleton (villain, introduction, death); Franklin D. Roosevelt (guest star)
Genre superhero
Pencils Phil Bard
Inks Phil Bard
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #25

2 page Chubby story

Genre gag
Script Tom McNamara
Pencils Tom McNamara
Inks Tom McNamara
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #25

18 page Spy Smasher story "The Coming of America-Smasher"

Characters America-Smasher (villain, introduction)
Genre spy; superhero
Pencils Charles Sultan
Inks Charles Sultan
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #25

15 page Mr. Scarlet story "The Death Battalion"

Characters The Death Battalion (villains) (Horned Hood, Ghost, Black Clown, Thorn, Laughing Skull, Dr. Death, Brain [Loomis] (introduction))
Genre superhero
Pencils Don Rico?
Inks Don Rico?
Reprinted in Flashback (DynaPubs Enterprises, 1974 series) #25