Issue | #39 |
Published | January 1943 |
Cover Price | 0.10 |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Vince Fago? |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Alex Schomburg |
Inks | Alex Schomburg |
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 |
Characters | V: Von Goober (I), Japanese |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Carl Pfeufer |
Inks | Carl Pfeufer |
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 |
Script | Faith Moorland |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | V: Krauss (I, D), Hoff, and other Nazi spies (I for all) |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Syd Shores |
Inks | Al Fagaly |
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) |
Characters | GS: Deadline Dawson; V: A Nazi spy ring (I) |
Genre | detective |
Script | Ray Gill? |
Pencils | Bob Oksner |
Inks | Bob Oksner |
Characters | V: The Fish Brothers (I; Carpo, Spiko, Basso, and Tuno) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Roy Garn? |
Pencils | Gustav Schrotter |
Inks | Gustav Schrotter |