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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published September 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing ?

Cover Details

Genre science fiction
Pencils Joe Musial

8 page Lone Ranger story "The Lone Ranger and Tonto are captured and charged with the crimes of Big Bart's gang."

Genre Western
Pencils Charles Flanders
Inks Charles Flanders
Notes strip reprints from 1939

1 page Family Portrait story "Onions? We're in favor of them"

Genre humor
Script J. Norman Lynd
Pencils J. Norman Lynd
Inks J. Norman Lynd

16 page Rush Newton of the Newsreels story "Black Gold"

Genre adventure; science fiction
Script Royce Cole
Pencils Ralph Carlson
Inks Ralph Carlson

1 page Family Portrait story "Autograph Addicts"

Genre humor
Script J. Norman Lynd
Pencils J. Norman Lynd
Inks J. Norman Lynd

11 page text story "Trem McRea and the Golden Cinders (part 4)"

Script Richard Wormser
Pencils H. Ramsey
Inks H. Ramsey
Letters typeset

2 page In the Sport Spotlight story "Joe Louis/Billy Conn/Stanley Ketchel"

Genre biography

4 page The Phantom story "The Phantom and Devil are trapped in an animal pit..."

Genre superhero
Script Lee Falk
Pencils Ray Moore
Inks Ray Moore
Notes strip reprints from 1939

4 page Saturn Against The Earth story "The brutes are gaining hand over fist!@"

Genre science fiction
Pencils (?) C. Scolari

16 page Rush Newton of the Newsreels story "Colossus"

Genre adventure; science fiction
Script Royce Cole
Pencils Ralph Carlson
Inks Ralph Carlson
Notes Sci-Fi story in which Rush and friends vs. a Tyrannosaurus (somewhat similar to the movie Valley of Gwangi which came out 29 years later!)