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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published October 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Vince Fago?

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Alex Schomburg
Inks Alex Schomburg

12 page Human Torch story "Horror of the Masked Fiend"

Characters V: Hermann Schmidt (I, D)
Synopsis A legless Nazi agent builds a wheelchair with hidden flaming hands to strangle army generals and put the blame onto the Torch. He captures Torch and Toro in a tank filled with liquid asbestos but there is just enough room at the top for Torch to ignite his hands and burn through the lid. When Torch and Toro burst through the wall, a flung brick strikes the control stud on the chair and the Nazi agent perishes at the hands of his own diabolical device.
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Sahle
Inks Harry Sahle

12 page Sub-Mariner story "Decoy For Death"

Characters V: Von Lontz (I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer

7 page Terry Vance story "The Case of the Spy Master's Quiz"

Characters GS: Deadline Dawson; V: Gaines (I)
Genre detective
Pencils Frank Bolle
Inks Frank Bolle

2 page text story "Booby Prize"

Letters typeset

7 page Jimmy Jupiter story "The Playing Card Castle"

Characters I: Queen Clara (a card queen) and her King, Cigam (a wizard)
Genre children; fantasy
Script Ray Gill?
Pencils Fred Bell
Inks Fred Bell
Notes last appearance

7 page Vision story "The Mine Murderer"

Characters V: Lucky Wilson (I, D), a Nazi spy ring (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Mike Sekowsky?
Inks Syd Shores?
Notes next Vision appearance in KID KOMICS #3

8 page Angel story "Ghastly Secret of Castle Mood"

Characters V: Capt. Kraust (I, D), Hugo (I, D), Karl (I); I: Lord Mood, Lucy Mood (his sister)
Genre superhero
Pencils Gustav Schrotter
Inks Gustav Schrotter