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Issue Details

Issue #29
Published May 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing John Beardsley

Cover Details

Characters Captain Triumph
Genre superhero
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira

13 page Captain Triumph story "Spade the Ruthless"

Characters Captain Triumph; A. Spade (Villain; intro); Z. Spade (villain; intro)
Genre superhero
Pencils Alfred Andriola
Inks Alfred Andriola
Notes Title from cover; first line, "Lance and Michael Gallant were twins..."; Spade brothers resemble Sidney Greenstreet.

8 page Alias the Spider story "Some men hunt ducks, pheasants..."

Characters The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; The Fly [John Duke] (villain; introduction; dies)
Genre superhero
Pencils John Cavallo
Inks John Cavallo

1 page Slap Happy Pappy story "Hey, Pappy! War's bin declared!"

Genre Gags
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole

9 page Black Condor story "Authors throughout history have written tragedy, comedy, prose and poetry..."

Characters Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]
Genre superhero
Pencils Charles Sultan
Inks Charles Sultan

3 page Molly the Model story "It seems the bigger the appetite, the barer the ice-box!"

Characters Molly the Model
Genre humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

7 page Inkie story "Inkie is a comic character the size of your pinky..."

Characters Inkie
Genre humor
Script Al Stahl
Pencils Al Stahl
Inks Al Stahl

1 page Rube Goldberg's Side Show story "A big shot in college named Cannonball Ames..."

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

5 page Pen Miller story "Pen Miller, an artist of no small fame..."

Characters Pen Miller
Genre detective
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

2 page Eric Vale text story "Lisbon Terror"

Letters typeset

6 page Hack O'Hara story "Furthermore, Hack O'Hara, I've a good mind to report you to the commissioner!"

Characters Hack O'Hara
Genre adventure
Pencils Clark Williams
Inks Clark Williams

9 page Clock story "A newspaper man is killed!"

Characters Clock [Brian O'Brien]
Genre detective
Script George Brenner
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner