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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published October 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Jean M. Press

Cover Details - "The Rangers are Coming"

Genre war
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf
Letters Typeset

8 page Commando Ranger story "Paris - 1943... The steel-walled office of the..."

Characters Commando Ranger (intro; origin; masked hero; not related to the Commando Rangers strip); La Bastille (intro; a female spy); the Great Lama (intro); VILLAINS: Baron Kurt Von Drax (intro); Hennig (intro; dies); Rathberg (intro; dies); Nazis
Genre war
Script ? [as Jock Lawrence]
Pencils Reuben Moreira
Inks Reuben Moreira

6 page The Sea Devil story "The great Yangtze River pirates..cutthroat Japs..."

Characters The Sea Devil; Leong Jin (intro); VILLAINS: The Japanese
Genre war
Script ? [as Morgan Hawkins]
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels; ?

12 page U.S. Rangers story "Okay, doc--get started! And do the job..."

Characters U.S. Rangers; Gi-Oro; Pansha; Nick Wright (intro); VILLAINS: K-11 (intro; dies; a female spy); Japanese
Genre war
Script ? [as Capt. R.W. Colt]
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney

7 page Rocky Hall story "From India's brooding temples comes a long forgotten..."

Characters Rocky Hall (last appearance); Haydee (intro); VILLAINS: The Thuggees (intro; die)
Genre jungle
Pencils Richard Case
Inks Richard Case
Notes Last appearance of Rocky Hall.

6 page Private Elmer Pippin and the Colonel's Daughter story "In the middle of K.P. our hero suddenly..."

Characters Pvt. Elmer Pippin; Hazel Mitt; VILLAINS: Nazi spies
Genre humor
Script ? [as George R. Cracker]
Pencils Fran Deitrick (signed)
Inks Fran Deitrick (signed)

1 page Ka'a'nga public service announcement "Weapons for Victory"

Genre jungle
Notes war-stamp promo

6 page The Werewolf Hunter story "The Tentacle Terror From Beelzebub's Void"

Characters Professor Broussard [the Werewolf Hunter]; Jeb Gloss (intro); Kay (intro); Tommy (intro); Martin Hiller (intro; dies); VILLAIN: Manuel (intro; dies)
Genre mystery
Script ? [as Armand Weygand]
Pencils Jim Mooney?
Inks Jim Mooney?

2 page text story "Sword of the Samurai"

Genre adventure
Script ? [as Robert Worth]
Letters typeset

8 page The Phantom Falcons story "Those 'free-lance flyers of freedom' strike again..."

Characters The Phantom Falcons [Jock Sturtevant; Ace Ely; Peg Darnell; John Lovelace; Bud]; VILLAINS: The Japanese
Genre war
Script ? [as William Brooks]
Pencils Lee Elias (signed)
Inks Lee Elias (signed)