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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published December 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 "Scavengers of Doom"

Characters The Scavengers (first appearance; villains); Red Laura (first appearance; villain)
Genre adventure; war
Script Dick French
Pencils Chuck Cuidera
Inks Chuck Cuidera
Notes title from cover

6 page Sniper story "Enter the Sniper"

Characters The Sniper (first appearance)
Genre war; adventure
Script Ted Udall
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

4 page Shot and Shell story "Cutting Out of the Concentration Camp"

Characters Josef Goebbels (villain)
Genre aviation
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

5 page Miss America story "The Hungry House"

Genre superhero
Script Ed Wexler?
Pencils Ed Wexler?
Inks Ed Wexler?

6 page Death Patrol story "The Prisoners Who Didn't Want To Be Rescued"

Characters Zazzy (death); King Hotentot (first appearance; joins the Death Patrol)
Genre war; aviation; humor
Script Dave Berg
Pencils Dave Berg
Inks Dave Berg

8 page Yankee Eagle story "The Mary Lee II"

Genre adventure
Pencils John Stewart
Inks John Stewart

6 page Blue Tracer story "The Ghost Ship"

Genre war; aviation
Script Fred Guardineer
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer

1 page Diary of a Draftee story "Abercrombie McZombie"

Characters Abercrombie McZombie (first appearance)
Genre Gags
Script Tex Blaisdell
Pencils Tex Blaisdell
Inks Tex Blaisdell

6 page Loops and Banks story "The Seven Dragons Cafe"

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

2 page text article "On Silent Wings"

Script Tex Blaisdell
Letters typeset
Notes true story; Bravery Award

9 page Secret War News story "Floating Death"

Genre war; true
Script Al McWilliams
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams
Notes true story