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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published September 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters Samson
Pencils Alex Kotzky ?
Inks Alex Kotzky ?

13 page Samson story "Death Rides the Airways"

Characters Samson; David (Samson's partner, introduction, origin); Muller (villain, introduction, origin); John Jennsen (villain, introduction)
Genre Superhero
Script Toni Blum ?
Pencils Alex Blum [as Alex Boon] (signed)
Inks Alex Blum [as Alex Boon] (signed)

6 page Flip Falcon story "Pirates' Treasure"

Characters Flip Falcon; Mr. X (introduction)
Genre adventure

8 page Golden Knight story "The Dragon Slayer"

Characters Golden Knight [Sir Richard of Warwick]; un-named king (villain, introduction); Princess Beatrice (villain, introduction)
Script Toni Blum ?
Pencils Grieg Chapian
Inks Grieg Chapian

6 page Yank Wilson story "Countess Gortz of Russmania"

Characters Yank Wilson; Countess Gortz (villain, introduction); Lt. Voss (villain, introduction)
Genre adventure
Pencils Grant Ferguson
Inks Grant Ferguson
Notes Artist's first named revised from Lance to Grant per Henry Andrews by Craig Delich 2010-3-21.

2 page none text story "Gold Over the Andes"

Genre adventure
Script Nathaniel Nitkin [as N. N. Nathaniel] (signed)
Letters typeset

4 page Space Smith story "Plutonian Peril"

Characters Space Smith; Iago (villain, introduction, death, a Plutonian)
Inks Jack Kirby
Notes Inks identification by Greg Theakston. "Jack Kirby? (Hank Christy)" removed from pencils field. "Jack Kirby?" removed from script field.
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #2

6 page Captain Kidd story "The Sinister Lama"

Characters Captain Kidd; The Lama (villain, introduction)
Script Toni Blum ?
Pencils Bill Bossert
Inks Bill Bossert

2 page Professor Fiend story "The Reputation Car"

Characters Professor Fiend
Genre adventure
Script Fred Schwab [as Boris Plaster] (signed)
Pencils Fred Schwab [as Boris Plaster] (signed)
Inks Fred Schwab [as Boris Plaster] (signed)
Letters Fred Schwab
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-3-20.

8 page Stardust story "The Super Fiend of the Lost Planet"

Characters Stardust; The Super Fiend (villain, introduction)
Synopsis When the Super Fiend sets the planet Mars on fire and sends it hurtling towards Earth, only Stardust can prevent Earth's destruction.
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, whose vast knowledge of interplanetary science has made him the most remarkable man that ever lived, is devoting his abilities to crime-busting throughout the universe...."
Reprinted in Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969 (Harry N. Abrams, 2006 series) #[nn]; in You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn]

8 page Sub Saunders story "The Giant Wheel of Chong"

Characters Sub Saunders; Chong (villain, introduction, death); Zobbo (villain, introduction, death)
Pencils Henry Kiefer [as Karl Kief] (signed)
Inks Henry Kiefer [as Kark Kief] (signed)