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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published Summer 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Harry Shorten

Cover Details

Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler

1 page credits "Contents page"

13 page Black Hood story "The Case of the Blood-Red Rubies"

Characters I: The Grand Lama (as a ghost; D in fb), Henry Simpson (I, D); V: John Grant (I, D)
Pencils Irv Novick?
Inks Irv Novick?

10 page Black Hood story "The Case of the Beautiful Corpse"

Characters V: Pretty Boy Frawley, Hiram Robbins (I for both)
Pencils Irv Novick?
Inks Irv Novick?

6 page Gloomy Gus story "A Millionaire's Life"

Characters GA: St. Pete
Pencils Red Holmdale
Inks Red Holmdale

2 page Black Hood text story "A Nickel's Worth of Murder"

Characters Black Hood
Letters typeset

12 page Black Hood story "The Case of the Friendly Murder"

Characters V: Bill Fix (I); I: Rib Robbins (D), Al McLean, Clarence Jordan
Pencils Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes reworked version of Shield story in PEP COMICS #43; Black Hood graduated college in 1939, making him 29 years old by this story