Issue | #4 |
Published | July 1944 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Indicia states "published bi-monthly by Continental Magazines, Inc." Indexed copy had "3/3/44" written in pencil on back cover, presumably an on-sale date. |
Characters | Kid Terrific; Jimmie |
Genre | Super-hero; Adventure |
Pencils | Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |
Inks | Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |
Notes | Indicia states "published bi-monthly by Continental Magazines, Inc." Indexed copy had "3/3/44" written in pencil on back cover, presumably an on-sale date. |
Characters | Kid Terrific; Jimmie; Murray Calvin; Louie Barrow |
Synopsis | Murray Calvin, a Broadway columnist hires Kid Terrific (but not Jimmie) to go down to the Florida swamps to investigate a haunted house. |
Genre | Super-hero; Adventure |
Characters | Boomerang [Captain Lloyd Raleigh]; Diana; Fritz Kurtzer |
Synopsis | Captain Raleigh and Diana are out for a sail when they come across an American submarine, with a German film director in charge of a group of Nazi sympathizers. |
Genre | Super-hero; Adventure |
Pencils | Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |
Inks | Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |
Characters | Comics McCormick; Captain Catapult [Tom Manley] |
Synopsis | Comics settles in to read some comics when his sister brings home her new beau, Corporal Tom Manley. In his dreams, Comics quickly recognizes him as Captain Catapult and, together, they capture all the mob bosses in town and take them to the police. |
Genre | Humor |
Script | Ed Wheelan (signed) |
Pencils | Ed Wheelan (signed) |
Inks | Ed Wheelan (signed) |
Letters | Ed Wheelan |
Characters | Molly O'Moore; Scoop Scanlon; Blake Thompson |
Synopsis | Molly goes on vacation at a ski lodge and runs into Scoop. Together they discover a body frozen in ice. |
Genre | Adventure |
Script | Ken Fitch |
Notes | Ken Fitch credit from Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
Characters | Melvin Blake |
Genre | Crime |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Includes two small illustrations. |
Characters | Juggernaut; Gwen Barnes; Roy Lacy |
Synopsis | Juggernaut gets a job at the Dorgan Mill, and then is fired when the guy who runs the mill suspects he might know something about the plan to wreck a train. |
Genre | Adventure |
Pencils | George Appel [as G. H. Appel] |
Inks | George Appel [as G. H. Appel] |
Synopsis | Ad for Aero Comics, Cat-Man Comics and Suspense Comics, with small drawings of the heads of the main characters from each. |
Characters | Dorothy Hamilton; Joe Matthews |
Synopsis | Joe Matthews is killed the day before he is supposed to marry Dorothy Hamilton. She goes to a mental asylum, insisting that Joe keeps calling her. |
Genre | Occult |
Characters | Buck Jordan; Broncho Boyd; Rajah; Lucille Traymore |
Synopsis | Lucille Traymore is crowned Miss America and as soon as the crown is placed on her head, she dies. Buck and Broncho solve the murder thanks to Rajah, their monkey, taking film footage of the murderer disposing of the murder weapon... the crown! |
Genre | Adventure |
Pencils | Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |
Inks | Rudy Palais [as R. Palais] |