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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published Fall 1941
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing France Herron?

Cover Details

Characters Mr. Scarlet; The Black Thorn
Genre superhero

7 page Mr. Scarlet story "The Mummy Ray"

Characters Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler] (special prosecutor); Miss Wade (his secretary); The Black Thorn (introduction; villain) [Henry Hawley]; Phineas Cox (inventor of the mummy ray)
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder?
Pencils Jack Binder?
Inks Jack Binder?

9 page Mr. Scarlet story "The Black Clown"

Characters Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler] (special prosecutor); Miss Wade (his secretary); The Black Clown (introduction; villain) [Harry Parrish]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Binder?
Inks Jack Binder?

10 page Mr. Scarlet story "The Laughing Skull"

Characters Mr. Scarlet [Brian Butler] (special prosecutor); Miss Wade (his secretary); The Laughing Skull [John Dodd](banker; introduction; villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Binder?
Inks Jack Binder?

10 page Atom Blake story "The Worlds of Time [Part 2]"

Characters Atom Blake (boy wizard); Stuart Blake (his father); Black Monster (villain; introduction; a robot)
Pencils Pierce Rice?
Inks Pierce Rice?

5 page Jim Dolan story "The Plot to Kill Jim Dolan"

Characters Jim Dolan (detective-magazine editor); Sally Alden (his secretary); Orranto (villain; introduction; gang czar); Zara (girl spy)
Genre adventure
Pencils James Wilcox
Inks James Wilcox
Letters Zara (I)

2 page text story "Death Strikes Four"

Script Carl Formes (LaRac Semrof)
Letters typeset

8 page Rick O'Shay story "The Nazi Big Bertha"

Characters Rick O'Shay (American soldier of fortune)
Genre adventure
Pencils Ken Battefield?
Inks Ken Battefield?

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes House ad for Whiz comics with a panel from each story

12 page The Hunchback story "Scaletti's Saboteurs"

Characters The Hunchback [Allen Lanier]; Betty Brenton (his sweetheart)
Genre superhero