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Issue Details

Issue #47
Published November 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer, editor; Ted Udall; Dorothy Roubicek (assistant eds)

Cover Details - "Crime Canned for the Duration"

Characters The Hawkman
Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff

13 page Flash story "Seeing Is Believing"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; V: "Pipe" Rockett [I]
Synopsis Gang leader "Pipe" Rickett, realizing that most people are very unobservant, unleashes his gang upon society, banking on the fact that bewildered people will fail to identify his thugs in the Police line-up.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Lou Ferstadt
Inks Lou Ferstadt
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-28-07.

8 page Johnny Thunder story "Pranks on Ship"

Characters Johnny Thunder
Genre superhero; humor
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier

8 page Ghost Patrol story "The Metal Man"

Characters The Ghost Patrol
Genre war
Script Ted Udall
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04.

6 page Minute Movies story "Murder in the Art Department"

Genre adventure; humor
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan

6 page The Whip story "The Penthouse Murder"

Characters The Whip [Rod Gaynor]
Genre western
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming

9 page Hawkman story "Case of the Impolite Salesmen"

Characters The Hawkman [Carter Hall]
Synopsis Carter Hall is grossly insulted by the actions of an impolite salesperson, unaware that his store is a secret hideout for underworld gang leaders....and they don't want customers!
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-28-07.