Issue | #9 |
Published | January 1940 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Victor Fox |
Characters | The Flame |
Pencils | Lou Fine |
Inks | Lou Fine |
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 |
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) |
Characters | Shorty Shortcake |
Script | S. M. Iger [Jerry Williams] |
Pencils | S. M. Iger |
Inks | S. M. Iger |
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) |
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) |
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 |
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. |
Characters | Don Quixote |
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 |
Characters | Mob Buster Robinson |
Script | ? [as Larry Vance] (signed) |
Pencils | George Tuska |
Inks | George Tuska |
Notes | Last appearance. |
Characters | Spark Stevens; Lafitte (villain, introduction) |
Script | Klaus Nordling |
Pencils | Klaus Nordling |
Inks | Klaus Nordling |