Issue Details

Issue	#37
Published	October 1940
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Ed Cronin

Cover Details

Genre	humor
Pencils	Gill Fox?
Inks	Gill Fox?

9 page Doll Man story "Bombasto the Puppeteer"

Characters	Doll Man [Darrel Dane]; Bombasto (first appearance; villain); Giuseppe (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine

4 page Rance Keane story "The Electric Cage Trap"

Characters	Rance Keane; Lola Pritchard; Prof. English; A racketeer (first appearance; villain)
Genre	western
Script	William A. Smith
Pencils	William A. Smith (Will Arthur)
Inks	William A. Smith

2 page Poison Ivy story "The Black Wolf"

Characters	Poison Ivy; The Black Wolf (first appearance; villain); Mr. Gunn (first appearance; villain)
Genre	humor
Script	Gill Fox
Pencils	Gill Fox (Gilbert Theodore)
Inks	Gill Fox

5 page Reynolds of the Mounted story "Call of the North"

Characters	Duke Jackson (first appearance; villain)
Genre	western
Script	Art Pinajian
Pencils	Art Pinajian
Inks	Art Pinajian

5 page Zero story "Mutiny On the Ghost Galleon"

Characters	Zero; Shiela (first appearance); Don (first appearance); The ghost crew of the Flying Skull (first appearance; villains)
Pencils	John Cassone?
Inks	John Cassone?

6 page Spin Shaw story "The Kidnapped Heiress"

Characters	Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]; Mr. Tolliver (first appearance); Betty Tolliver (first appearance); Count Vaslav (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre	aviation
Script	Bob Powell?
Pencils	Bob Powell?
Inks	Bob Powell?

2 page Lala Palooza story

Genre	humor
Script	Joe Devlin
Pencils	Joe Devlin
Inks	Joe Devlin

4 page Rusty Ryan story "The Horse Race To Save Boyville"

Characters	Rusty Ryan
Genre	spy; adventure; children
Script	Paul Gustavson
Pencils	Paul Gustavson
Inks	Paul Gustavson

5 page Capt. Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy story "Tap Trap"

Characters	Capt. Bruce Blackburn; Louise Lovely (first appearance; villain); Anton (first appearance; villain); Otto (first appearance; villain)
Genre	adventure; spy
Script	Harry Campbell
Pencils	Harry Campbell
Inks	Harry Campbell

4 page Voice story "Aboard the Ghost Ship"

Characters	The Voice [Mr. Elixir] (last appearance); Gerald Carder (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre	detective
Script	Stan Asch
Pencils	Stan Asch
Inks	Stan Asch

2 page Perry Scott text story "Antidote"

Characters	Perry Scott
Genre	adventure
Script	Robert M. Hyatt
Letters	typeset

2 page Big Top story

Genre	Humor
Script	Joe Devlin
Pencils	Joe Devlin
Inks	Joe Devlin

4 page Dusty Dane story "Dmitri the Pearl Thief"

Characters	Dusty Dane; Dimitri (first appearance; villain)
Genre	adventure
Script	Vernon Henkel
Pencils	Vernon Henkel
Inks	Vernon Henkel

4 page Mickey Finn story

Genre	sitcom
Script	Lank Leonard
Pencils	Lank Leonard
Inks	Lank Leonard
Notes	strip reprints

5 page Samar story "The Amazons of Nesbo"

Characters	Samar; Queen Sopho (first appearance); Ishta (first appearance); Leba (first appearance); other Amazons of Nesbo (first appearance); Gaol (first appearance); other men of Nesbo (first appearance); Nubians (first appearance; villains)
Genre	jungle
Pencils	Maurice Gutwirth
Inks	Maurice Gutwirth