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Issue Details

Issue #v3#1
Published June 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Aaron A. Wyn

Cover Details

Characters Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Lightning Girl [Isobel Blake]
Genre superhero

13 page Lash Lightning story "The Teacher and the Lesson of Doom"

Characters Lash Lightning [Robert Morgan]; Lightning Girl [Isobel Blake] (introduction, origin); Col. John Blake (introduction, Lightning Girl's uncle); Capt. Adam Blake (introduction, Lightning Girl's father, death); Admiral Wahl (Dutch Harbor Commander); Admiral Collier; the Teacher (villain, introduction)
Synopsis Lightning and Lightning Girl must face and defeat The Teacher, who seeks to: 1) kill Lightning; 2) destroy the American Fleet; 3) destroy the American Army at Dutch Harbor; and 4) placing the blame for all of this traitorous activity on Captain John Blake and his daughter, Isobel.
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry Sahle ?
Inks Harry Sahle ?
Notes Next appears in Four Favorites #6. The Who's Who does not credit Harry Sahle as working on this strip.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #82 (2010)

6 page Hap Hazard story "Mad Dog Killers On Trial Today"

Characters Hap Hazard
Genre adventure
Pencils Pierce Rice
Notes Next appears in Super-Mystery Comics Volume 3 #3 (#15).

12 page The Sword story "Our story begins shortly before a meeting of the Lake Aircraft Company's board of directors!"

Characters The Sword [Arthur Lake]
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Gallagher ?
Inks Joe Gallagher ?
Notes Last appearance in Captain Courageous Comics #6 and next appears in Super-Mystery Comics #15.

10 page Dr. Nemesis, Rx story "Terror freezes City Hospital when the surgeon with his scalpel of doom..."

Characters Doctor Nemisis [Jim Bradley]
Genre adventure
Pencils Harry Anderson ? [as B. Currie) (signed)
Inks Harry Anderson ? [as B. Currie] (signed)
Notes Next appears in Super-Mystery Comics Volume 3 #3 (#15).

8 page Marvo story "During a nightclub engagement, death strikes in the form of murder!"

Characters Marvo; Tito (a monkey)
Genre occult
Pencils Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Inks Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Notes Last appearance.

5 page Cappie Young story "Cappie Young, his pal Brask Cooper, and their Chinese friend, Ling Po..."

Characters Cappie Young; Brask Cooper; Ling Po
Genre adventure
Notes Last appearance.

8 page The Raven story "Like an evil, slimy monster from a prehistoric swamp..."

Characters The Raven [Sgt. Danny Dartin]; the Lizard (villain, introduction, death)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Mooney ?
Inks Jim Mooney ?