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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published [circa 1942 - 1944]
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Phil Sturm; Harry "A" Chesler, Jr. (publisher); Gaspano Ricca (art director)
Notes DYNAMIC COMICS No. 8. Published bi-monthly by DYNAMIC PUBLICATIONS, 420 DeSoto Avenue, St. Louis 7, Mo. Editorial and executive offices, 163 West 23rd Street, New York City. Harry "A" Chesler, Jr., publisher (on leave with U.S. Army); Gaspano Ricca, Art Director; Phil Sturm, Editor (on leave with U.S. Army). Application for second-class entry pending at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo. Single copies 10c, Yearly subscription $1.00. Estimates of the date have been given as either 1942 (Keltner) or 1944 (Heritage). No date is present anywhere on the issue, and all other full-size Chesler publications resume in 1944, with the exception of his partnership (of some sort) with Lev Gleason on Captain Battle #3, which may have also been 1942 and was probably not later than 1943. So 1944 seems more likely for this (bringing it nearer to the publication of issue #9), but 1942 remains an outside possibility.

Cover Details

Genre Horror

7 page Yankee Boy story "Save Freetown"

Characters Yankee Boy
Notes Yankee Boy last appeared in YANKEE COMICS #4. Story title from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

1 page Lil Arthur filler

Genre Gags
Notes Information on this sequence from Richard Starr on 4 November 2004.

7 page Dynamic Man story "Battles the Human Bat"

Characters Dynamic Man [Bert McQuade](origin?)
Genre superhero
Notes Story title from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

1 page text story "Quarter Mile"

Notes Information on this sequence from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

7 page Lucky Coyne story "Case of the Screaming Idiots"

Characters Lucky Coyne
Notes Story title from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

1 page Boll of the Ranch filler

Genre Gags
Notes Information on this sequence from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

8 page Master Key story "Introducing the Master Key"

Characters The Master Key [Ray Cardell] (intro, origin)
Notes Story title from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

1 page advertisement

Notes Ad for Stamp-O-Gram. Information on this sequence from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

7 page The Echo story "Monster of the Moors"

Characters The Echo [Jim Carson]
Notes Echo's last appearance in YANKEE COMICS #4. Story title from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

8 page Yankee Doodle Jones and Dandy story "The Case of the Strangling Hair"

Characters Yankee Doodle Jones (intro); Dandy (intro)
Notes Last appearance in YANKEE COMICS #4. Story title from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

1 page text story "Forbidden Fruit"

Notes Information on this sequence from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004.

7 page Dan Hastings story "King of Zaco"

Notes New information from Richard Starr on 1 November 2004. This sequence previously recorded as Ima Sleuth, 5 pages.