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Issue Details

Issue #v2#4 [16]
Published June 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing William DeGrouchy
Notes #16

Cover Details

Pencils Jack Binder?
Inks Jack Binder?
Notes #16

19 page Doc Savage story "Death Traps of Hidden Valley"

Characters Doc Savage; Monk; Ham; Myrtle Rose; The Skull (villain)
Synopsis Doc wears hood.
Notes cont'd next issue

8 page Ajax the Sun Man story The Sun Man Sets the "Rising" Sun

Characters Dr. Lana Pritchard
Script Ed Gruskin
Pencils Jack Binder
Inks Jack Binder

6 page Astron, Crocodile Queen story "The Scorpionese Men"

Characters Astron; Cassidy; Scorpionese Men (first appearance; villains, some deaths); Japanese (villains)

8 page story "Bob Fitzsimmons Who Held Three World Titles"

Genre Sports
Script Thornton Fisher
Pencils Thornton Fisher
Inks Thornton Fisher
Letters Thornton Fisher

8 page Avenger story "The Secret Formula"

Characters Avenger; Smitty; Mack; Roger Crowley (first appearance); Fenton (first appearance; villain; death)
Pencils Jack Binder
Inks Jack Binder
Notes title taken from blurb at story's end

6 page story The Mother of "Baby Snooks", Fannie Brice

Genre Fact; Biography

2 page text article "This Is Logistics"

Script The Sharpshooter
Letters typeset