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Issue Details

Issue #53
Published December 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jack Byrne (Mgr. Editor); S.M. Iger (Art Director)

Cover Details - "Shadowland Shrine"

Characters Tiger Girl
Genre jungle
Pencils Iger Shop (Tiger Girl); Joe Doolin (man & elephant)
Inks Iger Shop (Tiger Girl); Joe Doolin (man & elephant)

10 page Tiger Girl story Shadowland Shrine ["Talking drums pulsed an ominous message to the..."]

Characters Tiger Girl; Chaka (Intro, Death)
Genre jungle
Script ? [as Allan O'Hara]
Pencils Matt Baker?; Jack Kamen?; [shop]
Inks Jack Kamen?; Al Feldstein?; [shop]
Notes The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

8 page Risks, Unlimited starring Rip Carson story "To the mystic Orient come many Americans...some..."

Characters Rip Carson; Lum Kai (Villain, Intro, Death); Doris Perry (Intro)
Genre adventure
Script Ruth Roche ? [as Rollin W. Bell]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks Ruth Harris?; shop
Reprinted in Daring Adventures (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1963 series) #8; in Dynamic Adventures (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8

6 page Kayo Kirby story "Monterrey, Tampico, Panama, Caracas, Santiago, Buenos Aires...a..."

Characters Kayo Kirby; Ricardo (Villain, Intro); Chiquita (Villain, Intro); Slug (Villain, Intro); Alonzo (Intro)
Genre sports
Script Ruth Roche ? [as Chuck Walker]
Pencils Matt Baker?; Jack Kamen?; [shop]
Inks Jack Kamen?; [shop]
Reprinted in Daring Adventures (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1963 series) #8; in Dynamic Adventures (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8

6 page Hooks Devlin story "Hooks and Peaches haven't traded the pavement for..."

Characters Hooks Devlin; Bull Young (Villain, Intro)
Genre crime
Script ? [as John Campbell]
Pencils John Forte?; Ken Battefield? (Iger Shop)
Inks ? (Iger Shop)
Reprinted in Daring Adventures (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1963 series) #8; in Dynamic Adventures (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8

3 page text story "The Arm of Mukarrab Khan"

Genre war
Script Henry Wyshaw Lanier
Pencils Frank Doyle?
Inks Richard Case?
Letters typeset

6 page Captain Fight story "Where were the crews of those missing merchant..."

Characters Captain Fight; Black Bess (Villain, Intro); Ras El Hamid (Villain, Intro)
Genre period
Script ? [as Stuart Drake]
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen?; Al Feldstein?; [shop]

8 page Senorita Rio story "'Contact Senor Culebra in Santo Bellos immediately!' read..."

Characters Senorita Rio [Consuela Maria Ascencion De Las Vegas]; Senor Culebra; El Sangre; Pedro
Synopsis Rio Rita helps Senor Culebra rescue some workers for a munitions factory that have been captured by El Sangre.
Genre spy
Script Ruth Roche?
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Reprinted in Daring Adventures (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1963 series) #8; in Dynamic Adventures (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #8; In Rio Rita (AC, 1994 series) #[nn]