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Issue Details

Issue #v1#1
Published 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing William DeGrouchy
Notes all characters in early issues are taken from Street & Smith pulps

Cover Details

Genre Adventure
Notes all characters in early issues are taken from Street & Smith pulps

6 page Shadow story

Characters The Shadow [Lamont Cranston, nee' Kent Allard] (intro)
Genre Adventure
Script Walter Gibson

8 page Nick Carter story

Characters Nick Carter (intro)

6 page Doc Savage story

Characters Doc Savage (intro); Monk [Henry Blodgett Mayfair]; Ham [Theodore Brooks]
Genre Adventure

6 page Iron Munro story

Characters Iron Munro (intro)
Script Theodore Sturgeon
Notes Script credit from Theodore Sturgeon via Anthony Tollin on the GCD Error List. The Iron Munro comic stories were inspired/based on editor John W. Campbell's Arn Munro short stories in the ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION pulp.

7 page Stories by Horatio Alger, Jr. story

4 page Carrie Cashin story

Characters Carrie Cashin (intro)

7 page Bill Barnes story

Characters Bill Barnes (into)

5 page Frank Merriwell story

Characters Frank Merriwell (intro)

4 page Diamond Dick story

Characters Diamond Dick (intro, only appearance)