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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published November 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Will Eisner

Cover Details

Genre adventure; war
Pencils Chuck Cuidera
Inks Chuck Cuidera

11 page Blackhawk story "Desert Death"

Characters Black Tigress [Edda Heimat] (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre adventure; war
Script Will Eisner?
Pencils Chuck Cuidera
Inks Chuck Cuidera
Notes title from cover; story includes 1-pg. map of Blackhawk Island

6 page Blue Tracer story "Trap For the Blue Tracer"

Characters Nada (first appearance; villain)
Genre war; aviation
Script Fred Guardineer
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer
Notes story includes blueprints of Blue Tracer

6 page Loops and Banks story "Saving the Columbia"

Genre aviation
Script Bob Powell
Pencils Bob Powell (Bud Ernest)
Inks Bob Powell

4 page Shot and Shell story "Two Freaks and the Greeks"

Genre aviation
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

5 page Miss America story "The Bandleader Spy"

Genre superhero
Notes Miss America gets her costume; Joan Dale joins the FBI

8 page Yankee Eagle story "The Fiddler and the Ape"

Genre adventure
Pencils John Stewart
Inks John Stewart

6 page Death Patrol story "The Five-Point Invasion of Britain"

Characters Butch (death); Chief Chuck-a-Lug (first appearance; joins the Death Patrol)
Genre war; aviation; humor
Script Dave Berg
Pencils Dave Berg
Inks Dave Berg

1 page Sabotage story

Genre Gags
Script Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Pencils Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Inks Tex Blaisdell; Lake French

6 page H.M.S. Barracuda story "The Plot to Sink the Barracuda"

Characters Skiff Wilkins (first appearance; only appearance); Heinrich Himmler (villain)
Pencils Ed Wexler?
Inks Ed Wexler?

2 page text story "No Greater Love"

Script Tex Blaisdell
Letters typeset
Notes true story; Bravery Award

9 page Secret War News story "Bismarck Sunk"

Genre war; true
Script Al McWilliams
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams
Notes true story of the sinking of the Bismarck