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Issue Details

Issue	#10
Published	October-November 1939
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Malcolm Reiss (Editor); William E. Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)
Notes	first standard-sized issue

Cover Details

Genre	Science Fiction
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Notes	first standard-sized issue

8 page Sheena story "[After escaping from the mad king, Sheena, Bob...]"

Characters	Sheena; Bob; Namu (leopard; death)
Synopsis	Sheena gets her leopard costume after Bob kills a leopard named Namu.
Genre	jungle
Script	? [as W. Morgon Thomas]
Pencils	Bob Powell
Inks	Bob Powell

4 page Peter Pupp story "Peter and Tinymite found to their amusment that..."

Characters	Peter Pupp; Tinymite; Fooy On Yu; Ah Choo
Genre	humor

8 page Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural story "Projecting themselves by their own invention into time, .."

Genre	science fiction
Script	? [as Curt Davis]
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Notes	formerly Weird Stories of the Supernatural

Half page Bobby filler "Mom, I'm gonna be independent-I'm lookin' for..."

Characters	Bobby; his mom
Genre	humor
Script	S.M. Iger
Pencils	S.M. Iger
Inks	S.M. Iger

2 page Hunchback of Notre Dame story "Esmeralda, really the daughter of a noble, is..."

Characters	Esmeralda; Jehan; Quasimodo
Genre	period
Script	? (adaptor); Victor Hugo (original author)
Pencils	Dick Briefer
Inks	Dick Briefer
Notes	final installment

2 page Ken Hammond and the Leopard Man text story "The Jungle Pirates"

Characters	Ken Hammond
Genre	jungle
Script	Lin Davies
Pencils	Bob Powell
Inks	Bob Powell

5 page Wilton of the West story "The Crimson Rider Unmasked"

Characters	Wilton; The Crimson Rider
Genre	western
Script	? [as Fred Sande]
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine

8 page Spencer Steel story "The Perfect Crime"

Genre	detective
Script	? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Pencils	? [shop work]
Inks	? [shop work]
Notes	Appears to be Eisner layouts or influence. But the "shop" is the "artist" and you can already see why it's so tough to sort them out...Tho it's very early one could see future traces of Zolne, Cardy and even Bryant if one wanted to...

11 page The Hawk story "The Isle of Mantilla uncharted even to this..."

Characters	Hawk, Jeremy; Senorita Mantilla; Black Tonda; Jose Mantilla
Genre	period
Script	? [as Willis Rensie]
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner

7 page ZX-5 story "For months an old castle on the border..."

Characters	ZX-5; Swenson; Major Hastings; Magda; Alphonse; Josoix; Baron Karl
Genre	spy
Script	? [as Major Thorpe]
Notes	This is a true shop job again...but this time unlike the Spencer Steel work, it contains some elements seen in the "Powell-Henkel" style [see ZX-5 in issue 6] described earlier. There is a license plate that has R-B on it but other than Bob Bugg no other link came to mind in style.

8 page Inspector Dayton story "Inspector Dayton prepares to embark on his long..."

Characters	Inspector Dayton; Carlos Diez; Wini Damian; Russell Nelson
Genre	detective
Pencils	? [as George Thatcher]
Inks	? [as George Thatcher]
Notes	Possibly reprinted from E-I syndicated material. A few panels have extraneous numbers in corners and the size of the lettering varies, hinting at paste-up pages of differing sizes.