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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published January 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vince Fago?

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

12 page Human Torch story "Smugglers of Death"

Characters GS: Phineas T. Horton (last in issue #1; next in ?); I: Doris Horton (his niece); V: Coburn (I)
Synopsis Dr. Horton asks the Torch to guard his niece arriving from Sweden, but he appears to have failed in his task when gunmen open up on her. It turns out that she was a decoy for Horton's niece who has smuggled out of Berlin a list of spies operating in America inside of a large pearl.
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

12 page Sub-Mariner story "The Case of the Blinding Lights"

Characters V: Von Goober (I), Japanese
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer

7 page Jimmy Jupiter story "The Magic Glasses"

Characters GS: Knobby the Marionette; V: Three witches (I; Minerva, Melissa, and an unnamed third)
Genre children; fantasy
Script Ed Robbins
Pencils Ed Robbins
Inks Ed Robbins
Notes continued next issue

2 page text story "Jane Had To Get Rough"

Script Faith Moorland
Letters typeset

6 page Patriot story "The Shadow Army of Saboteurs Strikes"

Characters V: Krauss (I, D), Hoff, and other Nazi spies (I for all)
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Inks Al Fagaly

7 page Vision story "Dialogue of Death"

Characters V: Smitty Smith (I, D); I: Dick Crawn (D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Syd Shores
Notes Inks credits originally given to Mike Sekowsky in error (per Tony Isabella, March 30, 2006)

7 page Terry Vance story "The Case of the Fat Man's Folly"

Characters GS: Deadline Dawson; V: A Nazi spy ring (I)
Genre detective
Script Ray Gill?
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner

10 page Angel story "The Missing Fishermen"

Characters V: The Fish Brothers (I; Carpo, Spiko, Basso, and Tuno)
Genre superhero
Script Roy Garn?
Pencils Gustav Schrotter
Inks Gustav Schrotter