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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published January 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters The Flame
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine

9 page The Flame story "Raiders of the Deep"

Characters The Flame [Gary Preston]; Gen. Doyoff (villain, introduction); the Nazis (villains)
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner [Basil Berold] (signed)
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Reprinted in Flame, The (Fox, 1940 series) #1

8 page Yarko the Great story "Yarko's Double"

Characters Yarko; Mazie White (introduction, death); Slick Snead (villain, introduction); Tricks Todd (villain, introduction)
Synopsis A couple of crooks decide to cash in on the fame of Yarko, when one of them poses as the famed magician and robs audience patrons blind during the act.
Pencils ? [as Anthony Brooks] (signed)
Inks ? [as Anthony Brooks] (signed)
Notes AC Comics editor Bill Black identified the art in in this strip as being by Will Eisner. Larry Antonette drew Yarko in 1941 according to the Who's Who. Writer/art credits revised from Bob Powell to ? by Craig Delich 2010-1-10 since the Who's Who does NOT list Powell with any credits for Yarko and Powell did NOT use the pen name of Anthony Brooks [according to the Who's Who], nor did Eisner use the pen name of Anthony Brooks.
Reprinted in Golden-Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #4 (2009)

6 page Shorty Shortcake story "The Snoring Miners"

Characters Shorty Shortcake
Script S. M. Iger [Jerry Williams]
Pencils S. M. Iger
Inks S. M. Iger

6 page Patty O'Day story "The Oil Ship"

Characters Patty O'Day
Script Claire Moe [as Vic Todd] (signed)
Pencils Claire Moe [as Vic Todd] (signed)
Inks Claire Moe [as Vic Todd] (signed)

6 page Dr. Fung story "Karno the Chessman"

Characters Dr. Fung; The Moth (villain); Karno the Chessman (villain)
Script Bob Powell [as Arthur Dean] (signed)
Pencils Bob Powell [Arthur Dean] (signed)
Inks Bob Powell [as Arthur Dean] (signed)

2 page text story "Tommy Taylor's Dad Tells of His Travels"

Characters Tommy Taylor
Script S. M. Iger
Pencils Bob Powell [as Powell] (signed) (spot illustrations)
Inks Bob Powell [as Powell] (signed) (spot illustrations)
Letters typeset

5 page Tex Maxon story "Routing the Road Agents At Rat River Roost"

Characters Tex Mason
Pencils Munson Paddock [as Cecelia Munson] (signed)
Inks Munson Paddock [as Cecelia Munson] (signed)
Notes Writer credit revised from Munson Paddock to ? by Craig Delich 2010-1-10. The Who's Who only lists Paddock as artist on this strip.

2 page Don Quixote story "At Coney Island"

Characters Don Quixote

5 page K-51 Spies At War story "The Three European Dictators"

Characters Anna Zev; Diableff (villain); Carlo Riano (villain, introduction, death); Rudolph Morga (Villain, introduction, death)
Script Will Eisner [as Willis B. Rensie] (signed)
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

5 page Mob Buster Robinson story "Sugar Prices Sky High"

Characters Mob Buster Robinson
Script ? [as Larry Vance] (signed)
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska
Notes Last appearance.

7 page Spark Stevens story "The Lair of Lafitte"

Characters Spark Stevens; Lafitte (villain, introduction)
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling