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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published June 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Ed Cronin

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Gill Fox
Inks Gill Fox

7 page Clock story "The Orchid"

Characters I: The Orchid; V: Harvey Gibbs, Nick, and other gangsters (I for all)
Genre detective
Script George Brenner
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner

4 page Molly the Model story

Genre humor
Script Joe Devlin
Pencils Joe Devlin
Inks Joe Devlin

1 page Rube Goldberg's Side Show story

Genre Gags
Script Rube Goldberg
Pencils Rube Goldberg
Inks Rube Goldberg
Notes strip reprints

5 page Red Torpedo story "The Blastproof Battleship"

Characters V: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Josef Goebbels, Nazis
Genre superhero
Script Henry Kiefer?
Pencils Henry Kiefer (Roy Larken)
Inks Henry Kiefer

4 page Ned Brant story

Genre sports
Script Bob Zuppke
Pencils E. W. DePew
Inks E. W. DePew
Notes strip reprints

4 page Lee Prestonof the Red Cross story "Mission To Chenfu"

Characters I: Ken Davis; V: Chinese renegades
Script Bob Powell
Pencils Bob Powell (Terence McCauley)
Inks Bob Powell

5 page Space Legion story "The Villain From Venus"

Characters V: Jafek (I, D); I: Prof. Wadsworth, Elaine Wadsworth
Genre science fiction
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

2 page Slap Happy Pappy story "He's a Hill-Billy Ball of Fire!"

Genre Gags
Script Gill Fox
Pencils Gill Fox
Inks Gill Fox

4 page Alias the Spider story "Patterson's Plot"

Characters V: Patterson (I, D)
Genre superhero
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson

4 page Jane Arden story

Genre soap
Script Monte Barrett
Pencils Russell E. Ross
Inks Russell E. Ross
Notes strip reprints

5 page Madam Fatal story "Professor Discovers New Destructive Chemical"

Characters I: Prof. Lane, Sgt. O'Malley; V: A spy (I)
Genre superhero
Script Art Pinajian
Pencils Art Pinajian
Inks Art Pinajian

2 page Eric Vale text story "Doom Syndicate"

Characters Eric Vale (first appearance)
Script Larry Spain
Letters typeset

7 page Wizard Wells story "The House of Fear"

Characters V: Black Morda
Genre adventure
Script Harry Campbell
Pencils Harry Campbell
Inks Harry Campbell

7 page Black Condor story "The Adventure of Ali Kan"

Characters V: Ali Kan (I); I: Andrea Kent, Denny Kent, Ada
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine