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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published March 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters Samson
Genre Superhero
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine

13 page Samson story "The Giant Robots of Kilgor"

Characters Samson; Kilgor (villain, introduction, death)
Script Will Eisner ?
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum

6 page Flip Falcon story "Invasion of the Three-Armed Men"

Characters Flip Falcon; Three-Armed Men (villains)
Pencils Don Rico
Inks Don Rico
Notes Flick Falcon's name changed to Flip.

8 page Golden Knight story "The Legend of the Haunted Well"

Characters Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]; Alice (introduction)
Pencils Grieg Chapian
Inks Grieg Chapian

6 page Yank Wilson story "The Silent Explosive"

Characters Yank Wilson; Terro (villain, introduction, death)
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr
Letters Jack Farr

2 page none text story "Lost In Time"

Script Richard Paul (signed)
Letters typeset

6 page Space Smith story "Headless Men of the Gold Comet [The Thinker]"

Characters Space Smith; Dianna; The Thinker (villain, introduction)
Synopsis Space Smith and Dianna are attacked by the Thinker's headless soldiers while they investigate the comet of gold.
Genre science fiction
Script Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Pencils Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Inks Fletcher Hanks [as Hank Christy] (signed)
Letters Fletcher Hanks
Notes The first line of text reads: "Space" has just received a radio call from a lunar station, inviting him and Dianna to visit the moon for a close-up of a new comet."
Reprinted in You Shall Die by Your Own Creation! (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn]

6 page Captain Kidd story "Hearing rumors of a strange cult of hideous beast-men..."

Characters Captain Kidd
Script Toni Blum ?
Pencils Bill Bossert
Inks Bill Bossert

4 page Professor Fiend story "[Deep down in a gloomy subterranean subcellar..."

Characters Professor Fiend
Script Fred Schwab
Pencils Fred Schwab
Inks Fred Schwab
Letters Fred Schwab
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-3-13.

6 page Stardust story "The Mad Giant Experimenter"

Characters Stardust; The Mad Giant (introduction); Kamet (introduction)
Synopsis Stardust prevents the Mad Giant from destroying Chicago with a volcano that appears in Lake Michigan.
Genre science fiction; superhero
Script Fletcher Hanks (signed)
Pencils Fletcher Hanks (signed)
Inks Fletcher Hanks (signed)
Letters Fletcher Hanks
Notes The first line of text reads: "Stardust, the scientific marvel whose vast interplanetary knowledge has given him greater powers than anybody else, has learned through his scopes that a mad giant experimenter, who dwells in the Gobi desert, is planning to destroy the world."
Reprinted in You Shall Die by Your Own Creation! (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn]

7 page Sub Saunders story "The Problem of Prince Pizga"

Characters Sub Saunders; Thetis (introduction); Prince Pizga (villain, introduction, death)
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer