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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published September 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Ed Cronin

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine

7 page Hercules story "The Burns Koffin Gang"

Characters V: Burns Koffin (I)
Genre superhero
Pencils Dan Zolnerowich
Inks Dan Zolnerowich

6 page X-5 Super Agent story "Assignment: Spain"

Characters I: Fred Ricks; V: The Bothnians (I)
Genre spy
Script Will Eisner?
Pencils Courtney Thompson
Inks Courtney Thompson

6 page Jack and Jill story "The Two Aunt Agathas"

Characters V: "Aunt Agatha" (I; a female impersonator)
Genre detective
Pencils John Lindermayer?
Inks John Lindermayer?

6 page Red Bee story "The Photographer's Murder"

Characters V: Henry Graff, Fred (I for both)
Genre superhero
Pencils Charles Nicholas?
Inks Charles Nicholas?

7 page Strange Twins, The story "The Dope Pearls"

Characters V: Vera De Vain (I); I: Sari
Genre adventure
Script S. M. Iger
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum

6 page Bob and Swab story "Spies In Puerto Rico"

Characters V: Luisa and other spies (I for all)
Genre humor; adventure
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

5 page Casey Jones story "The Chicago Run"

Genre adventure
Pencils Munson Paddock
Inks Munson Paddock
Notes last appearance

2 page text story "The Cat's Ninth Life"

Script Toni Blum (Tony Boon)
Letters Typeset

5 page Old Witch story "The Tale of the Ghost Cavaliers"

Genre occult
Pencils Pierre Winter
Inks Pierre Winter

5 page Blaze Barton story "Voyage To the Center of the Earth"

Characters I: Beatica (Queen of the Jewelled Caves); V: The Core-men
Genre science fiction
Pencils Henry Kiefer
Inks Henry Kiefer

2 page Tommy Tinkle story "Treasure On Koko's Island"

Genre humor
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska

7 page Neon the Unknown story "The Savage Land"

Characters I: Sir Humphrey Walker
Genre superhero
Script S. M. Iger
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum