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Issue Details

Issue	#4
Published	May 1940
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters	Cosmic Carson
Genre	sci-fi
Pencils	Joe Simon
Inks	Joe Simon

12 page Dynamo story "The Wire of Doom"

Characters	The Leader (first appearance; villain)
Script	Dick Briefer?
Pencils	Dick Briefer
Inks	Dick Briefer

8 page Eagle story "Prof. Piccardo Will Ascend Into Stratosphere"

Characters

G-13 and other spies (first appearance; villains; death); Prof. Piccardo (first appearance)

8 page Cosmic Carson story "The Attack of Iako"

Characters	V: Iako (I); I: Elramis, Major Lang
Script	Jack Kirby; Joe Simon?
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Jack Kirby
Letters	Jack Kirby
Notes	Storyline never resolved. "Joe Simon?" removed from Inks credit. Pencils, inks, letters credits by Greg Theakston.
Reprinted	in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #1; in Golden-Age Greats (AC, 1994 series) #12

8 page Perisphere Payne story "The Stolen City"

Characters	Bonto (first appearance; villain; death); Janice (first appearance)
Pencils	? (Arnold Hardy)

8 page Marga story "Ivory City"

Characters	Ishta (first appearance; villain; death)
Pencils	Emil Gershwin?
Inks	Emil Gershwin?

2 page Comet Frank text story "The Capellian War Monster"

Characters	Comet Frank (first appearance)
Script	Martin A. Brusten
Letters	typeset

8 page Dr. Doom story "Attack on Jupiter"

Pencils

? (Richard Crater)

8 page Navy Jones story "Trapped By the Prime Minister"

Characters	The Prime Minister (villain); Sharks Finn (first appearance; villains); Queen Nina (first appearance)
Script	Bert Whitman
Pencils	Bert Whitman
Inks	Bert Whitman
Notes	Navy Jones revealed as the great-great-grandson of Davy Jones (locker also revealed)