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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published September 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing S. M. Iger (Art Director)
Notes The page count [60 pages] is correct. There are four sheets in the front "half" of the book that do not wrap around the rear "half." Note also that Iger returns to indicia as art director and Byrne is now gone.

Cover Details - "Bait for the Silver King-Cat"

Genre jungle
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf
Notes The page count [60 pages] is correct. There are four sheets in the front "half" of the book that do not wrap around the rear "half." Note also that Iger returns to indicia as art director and Byrne is now gone.

12 page Sheena story Bait For the Silver King-Cat ["Red shines the hot African sun on the..."]

Characters L'upa; Zubi; Riba; Chim; Sgt. Reginald Austin
Genre jungle
Script ? [as W. Morgan Thomas]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks Ann Brewster?; [shop]
Notes The story title is taken from the cover.

8 page ZX-5 Spies In Action story "Nazi cunning builds a fiendish pyre under Sweden's..."

Characters La Martinique; Lt. Stotz
Genre spies
Script ? [as Major Thorpe]
Pencils Robert Webb?; Nina Albright?
Inks ? [shop]
Notes Possibly just Albright and shop mimics since some panels resemble Astarita, Blum and others.

6 page The Hawk story "What sinister intrigue throws a pall over the..."

Characters Duke Chianti; Fluth; Caleb; Jeremy; Lady Hamill; One-eye
Genre period
Script ? [as Willis B. Rensie]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks ? [shop]

6 page Stuart Taylor story "In the glorious annals of America's early history,"

Characters Laura; Dr. Hayward; Lafayette
Genre science ficiton
Script ? [as Curt Davis]
Pencils Robert Webb?
Inks Lee Ames?

6 page Midnight The Wild Black Stallion story "Let no desperado plotter or foe of Rick..."

Characters Rick; Helen; Shorty
Genre western
Script ? [as West Erner]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum; ?

6 page Inspector Dayton story "With the shadow of death hovering over the..."

Characters Queenie; Johnnie
Genre detective
Script ? [as Geo. Thatcher]
Pencils Rafael Astarita?; Nina Albright?
Inks ? [shop]
Notes Interesting inker here. Art is not by Robert Webb.

2 page text story "Angels of the Deep"

Script Tom Alexander

10 page Ghost Gallery story "Someday on a lonely road you may find..."

Characters Uncle Marvin Hall; Francine; Mr. Kohler; Zachary; Mrs. Weaver
Genre mystery
Script ? [as Drew Murdoch]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks ? [shop]
Notes The inker here maintains the Bob Hebberd feel of this strip.