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Issue Details

Issue #v1#5
Published July 1940
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing William DeGrouchy

Cover Details

Genre Adventure

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Editor's Page"

Script William DeGrouchy
Letters typeset
Notes inside front cover

8 page Shadow story "A tremendous fire, fourth of such mighty blazes..."

Characters Shadow; Margo Lane; the Salamanders (villains; first appearance)
Genre Adventure
Script William Gibson
Notes Adapted from "The Salamanders" Shadow novel by William Gibson (Maxwell Grant).

8 page Stories by Horatio Alger, Jr. story "Brave and Bold"

8 page Three Musketeers story "D'Artagnan, no sooner arrived in Paris than circumstances led to a duel..."

Genre period

7 page Gadget Man story "The Talking Toad"

Characters Gadget Man [Click Rush] (introduction)

6 page Iron Munro story "Iron Munro of Jupiter and Spencer Carlyle, rich young shipowner..."

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.

5 page Nick Carter story "The Gate to Death"

6 page Avenger story The Avenger Tracks Down the Demon Who Shocked the World With His "Frozen Death" Powder

Notes Continued from last issue.

7 page Carrie Cashin story "Terror Island"

6 page Bill Barnes story "Bill Barnes and his pal, Shorty, enter the air races..."

2 page text story "Time and Place"

Script Milton Lowe
Letters typeset
Notes illustrated text story