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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published June 1946
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 52
Editing Vera Cerutti (signed); H. L. Gold (managing editor on leave t the Army); Augusta Simon (associate); Albert Jetter (art)

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters Golden Lad [Tommy Preston]
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed)
Inks Mort Meskin (signed)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Table of Contents"

11 page Golden Lad story "The Chinese Vase"

Characters Golden Lad [Tommy Preston]
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed)
Inks Mort Meskin (signed)

8 page Golden Girl story "The Phoney Policeman"

Characters Golden Girl [Peggy Shane](introduction, origin); Millie; Golden Lad [Tommy Preston]; Grandpa Preston (cameo, Tommy's grandfather); Slugsy (villain); Pugsy (villain)
Synopsis A band of criminals plant a fire bomb inside a doll and return it to Limbel's Department Store, where it explodes, after which they pose as Policemen, rushing into the store hoping a steal some money in the confusion.
Genre superhero
Notes Golden Girl is a female counterpart to Golden Lad.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #82 (2010) [reprinted in B/W in this format]

7 page Sandusky and the Senator story "The Swindling Stars"

Genre humor
Pencils Irv Tirman
Inks Irv Tirman

7 page Shaman and Flame story "The School for Skulduggery"

Characters Shaman; Flame
Genre superhero
Pencils Louis Ravielli (signed)
Inks Louis Ravielli

6 page Enoch Sly story "Enoch Throws His Voice"

Pencils Marv Lev
Inks Marv Lev

1 page story "Home Sweet Home"

Genre gag