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Issue Details

Issue #84
Published October 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Mort Weisinger (actual editor)

Cover Details - "Traps for Japs"

Characters The Green Arrow; Speedy
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp (signed)
Inks George Papp (signed)

13 page Green Arrow story "Hunting Headlines"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Lamont Morgan; Arrowplane (car)
Synopsis Millionaire Lamont Morgan offers $10,000 to prove Green Arrow is a fake: he has to make headlines without using his arrows. So he goes west to Boomtown where he gets involved trying to stop a stage coach robbery and a Japanese invasion of California.
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

Half page Shorty filler

Characters Shorty
Genre gags; military
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

10 page Doctor Fate story "Crime's Hobby House"

Characters Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Kramer; Mordunt Grimm (Villain)
Synopsis Mordaunt Grimm, while working on a movie production that features people and their hobbies, get the idea to use those people's hobbies to commit crimes.
Genre superhero; occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Letters Howard Sherman
Notes Story takes place in Gotham City; with this issue, the golden epaulettes on Fate's shoulders disappear for good; letterer credit & modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 12-10-07.
Reprinted in Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1

6 page Radio Squad story "Crimes in Camouflage"

Characters Radio Squad [Larry Trent; Sandy Keene]; George Scroggs
Genre detective
Pencils Cliff Young
Inks Cliff Young
Notes Credits by Craig Delich.

10 page Aquaman story "Raid on Atlantis"

Characters Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Atlantis; Dr. Coburn, Captain Jerrod; Ark the seal; Skol
Synopsis Greedy fortune hunters want to capture Aquaman and exhibit him in a carnival.
Genre superhero
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve

2 page text story "Fair Exchange"

Genre adventure
Script Eric Carter (signed)
Letters typeset

Half page Laffs filler

Genre gags
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

8 page Johnny Quick story "Adventure of the One Man Movie"

Characters Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; Mort Morton, Jr; Cliff Young; Torchy Trasker; Shadow Shank
Synopsis Gangsters try to get a cartoon studio to pay extortion.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin [signed as Mort Morton, Jr.]
Inks Cliff Young (signed)
Notes Artists Meskin and Young draw themselves into this story.

Half page Just For Fun filler

Genre gags
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

10 page Spectre story "The Cry-Baby Crimes"

Characters The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Percival Popp; The Cry-Baby (Villain)
Synopsis The Cry-Baby makes everyone so sad they can't stop his crimes.
Genre superhero; occult
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)