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Issue Details

Issue #98
Published July-August 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor)

Cover Details

Characters Green Arrow; Speedy; Dover; Clover
Genre superhero; humor
Pencils Cliff Young? (GA & Speedy); Henry Boltinoff (Dover & Clover)
Inks Cliff Young? (GA & Speedy); Henry Boltinoff (Dover & Clover)

10 page Spectre story "Cartoons of Crime"

Characters The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Percival Popp; Paul Binny; Rollin' Rodent; Willie the Wolf; Dinky the Elephant
Synopsis Percival has to guard the payroll at a cartoon studio.
Genre superhero; occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Notes Writer id by Martin O'Hearn.

11 page Green Arrow story "The Fabulous Fawn"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Arrowcar; Phineas Trippe (Villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Cliff Young (signed)
Inks Steve Brodie (signed)
Notes Arrowplane now called Arrowcar.

11 page Johnny Quick story "Tall, Slim and Handsome"

Characters Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; Doc Filch (Villain)
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Mort Meskin [signed as Mort Morton, Jr.]
Inks Mort Meskin [signed as Mort Morton, Jr.]
Notes Writer id by Martin O'Hearn.

4 page Dover and Clover story "The Whirlwind Wig Hunt"

Characters Dover and Clover
Genre humor
Script Whitney Ellsworth
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff

2 page text story "Framed"

Genre adventure
Script Tom Trent (signed)
Letters typeset

5 page Doctor Fate story "The Bashful King of Crime"

Characters Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Stumpy Small (Villain); Henry Halfpint
Synopsis Dr. Fate thinks he is seeing double when a young kid, found at the scene of a crime, is instead an exact double for a wanted criminal.
Genre superhero; occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Jon Chester Kozlak
Inks Jon Chester Kozlak
Notes Last appearance. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 12-27-07.
Reprinted in Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1

8 page Aquaman story "Treasure of the Deep"

Characters Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Phineas Blodgett (Villain)
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes Writer id by Martin O'Hearn.