Issue | #17 |
Published | August 1942 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Al Avison |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Al Avison |
Characters | V: Killer Kole (I, D; human brain in gorilla body) |
Synopsis | A jealous scientist named Dr. Weirdler learns one of his colleagues has developed a serum that will reanimate dead bodies and is planning on testing it on a recently deceased gorilla. Dr. Weirdler takes the brain of an executed criminal named Killer Kole and places it in the gorilla's body. The experiment doesn't seem to work and the medical students bury the gorilla's body where the grave is struck by lightning and Killer Kole is revived. His goes to the zoo and breaks out a pair of gorillas for his mob and then sets out on a path of vengeance against the three judges who sent him to the chair. Dr. Weirdler informs Cap about the beast terrorizing the city and then takes a knife thrown at Cap to atone for his crime. Cap socks Killer Kole off a highrise and he falls to his doom. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee? |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Al Avison |
Genre | Humor |
Script | Red Holmdale |
Pencils | Red Holmdale |
Inks | Red Holmdale |
Characters | V: The Spook (I; Hans Knutte); I: Queen Medusa and her Sub-Earth Men |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee? |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Al Avison |
Script | Mortimer Breen |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | I: The Fighting Yank (Bill Prince; not the Better Publications character) |
Pencils | Jimmy Thompson |
Inks | Jimmy Thompson |
Characters | V: Le Bull (I, D), Prof. Mott (I, D) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Stan Lee? |
Pencils | Al Avison |
Inks | Al Avison |
Script | Stan Lee? |
Pencils | Don Rico |
Inks | Don Rico |