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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published November 1939
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Vincent Sullivan

Cover Details

Characters Aviation dogfight.
Genre aviation
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed Guardineer)
Inks Fred Guardineer (signed Guardineer)
Letters typeset
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #1.

13 page Superman story "The Blackmail of Senator Hastings"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Gene Powers of the Morning Herald; George Taylor (unnamed); Senator Hastings; Villians: Trixie, Hamilton [editor of the Morning Herald].
Synopsis Superman investigates and halts the activities of a "yellow journalist" editor who is blackmailing noted officials.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Paul Cassidy (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks Paul Cassidy?
Notes The last panel features the cover and ad for New York World's Fair Comics for 1939. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-16-08.
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #1.

6 page Pep Morgan story "Old Elias"

Characters Pep Morgan
Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed as Gene Baxter)
Inks Fred Guardineer (signed as Gene Baxter)
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 8-16-08.

4 page Chuck Dawson story "The Frame"

Characters Chuck Dawson
Genre adventure
Pencils Homer Fleming (signed as H. Fleming)
Inks Homer Fleming (signed as H. Fleming)

6 page Clip Carson story "The Cult of the Tiger] [Part 2"

Characters Clip Carson
Genre adventure
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Bob Kane
Inks Bob Kane

2 page text story "Flying Fool"

Genre aviation
Script Gardner F. Fox ?; Vince Sullivan ? (signed as Terry Keane)
Pencils ? (spot illos)
Inks ? (spot illos)

10 page Tex Thomson story "The Return of the Gorrah] [Part 2"

Characters Tex Thomson; V: the Gorrah.
Genre adventure
Script Ken Fitch?
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 8-16-08.

1 page Tiny filler

Characters Tiny
Genre gag
Script Fred Schwab
Pencils Fred Schwab
Inks Fred Schwab
Letters Fred Schwab
Notes Writer and letterer credits added by Craig Delich 8-16-08.

6 page Three Aces story "The Captured Planes"

Characters Three Aces: Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill, & Whistler Will (I, brief origin).
Genre adventure
Pencils Bert Christman (signed as Christopher)
Inks Bert Christman (signed as Christopher)

1 page Fantastic Facts filler

Genre fact
Script George Papp
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 8-16-08.

11 page Zatara Master Magician story "The Atlantis Mystery"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer