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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published December 16, 1942
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 100
Editing Rod Reed

Cover Details - "The Lost Lightning"

Characters Captain Marvel; Spy Smasher; Bulletman; Commando Yank
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks Pete Costanza ?
Letters typeset

1 page credits

Notes Contents page.

20 page Captain Marvel story "The Lost Lightning"

Characters Ibac (villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); Tojo (villain); Zeus; Venus; Pan; Mercury; Neptune; Bacchus; Cupid
Genre superhero
Script Dave Berg
Pencils Dave Berg
Inks Dave Berg

12 page Spy Smasher story "Battles the Bomber Birds"

Genre spy; superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy ?
Inks Mac Raboy ?

18 page Bulletman story "The Plotter"

Characters Bulletgirl; The Plotter (introduction, death)
Genre superhero

2 page text story "Sea Hunters"

Script Nathaniel Nitkin
Letters typeset

12 page Minute Man story "The Goddess of Fire"

Characters Pelee [Japanese spy] (villain, introduction)
Genre superhero
Pencils Phil Bard
Inks Phil Bard

1 page Whipper-Snappers filler

Genre gag

12 page Mr. Scarlet story "The Phantom of Marston Manor"

Characters The Phantom [Formes] (villain, introduction, death)
Genre superhero

15 page Commando Yank story "Joins Forces With the Paris Apaches"

Genre superhero