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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published October-November 1939
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Malcolm Reiss (Editor); William E. Eisner (Art Director); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)
Notes first standard-sized issue

Cover Details

Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Notes first standard-sized issue

8 page Sheena story "[After escaping from the mad king, Sheena, Bob...]"

Characters Sheena; Bob; Namu (leopard; death)
Synopsis Sheena gets her leopard costume after Bob kills a leopard named Namu.
Genre jungle
Script ? [as W. Morgon Thomas]
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

4 page Peter Pupp story "Peter and Tinymite found to their amusment that..."

Characters Peter Pupp; Tinymite; Fooy On Yu; Ah Choo
Genre humor

8 page Stuart Taylor in Weird Stories of the Supernatural story "Projecting themselves by their own invention into time, .."

Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Curt Davis]
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Notes formerly Weird Stories of the Supernatural

Half page Bobby filler "Mom, I'm gonna be independent-I'm lookin' for..."

Characters Bobby; his mom
Genre humor
Script S.M. Iger
Pencils S.M. Iger
Inks S.M. Iger

2 page Hunchback of Notre Dame story "Esmeralda, really the daughter of a noble, is..."

Characters Esmeralda; Jehan; Quasimodo
Genre period
Script ? (adaptor); Victor Hugo (original author)
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer
Notes final installment

2 page Ken Hammond and the Leopard Man text story "The Jungle Pirates"

Characters Ken Hammond
Genre jungle
Script Lin Davies
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

5 page Wilton of the West story "The Crimson Rider Unmasked"

Characters Wilton; The Crimson Rider
Genre western
Script ? [as Fred Sande]
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine

8 page Spencer Steel story "The Perfect Crime"

Genre detective
Script ? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Pencils ? [shop work]
Inks ? [shop work]
Notes Appears to be Eisner layouts or influence. But the "shop" is the "artist" and you can already see why it's so tough to sort them out...Tho it's very early one could see future traces of Zolne, Cardy and even Bryant if one wanted to...

11 page The Hawk story "The Isle of Mantilla uncharted even to this..."

Characters Hawk, Jeremy; Senorita Mantilla; Black Tonda; Jose Mantilla
Genre period
Script ? [as Willis Rensie]
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner

7 page ZX-5 story "For months an old castle on the border..."

Characters ZX-5; Swenson; Major Hastings; Magda; Alphonse; Josoix; Baron Karl
Genre spy
Script ? [as Major Thorpe]
Notes This is a true shop job again...but this time unlike the Spencer Steel work, it contains some elements seen in the "Powell-Henkel" style [see ZX-5 in issue 6] described earlier. There is a license plate that has R-B on it but other than Bob Bugg no other link came to mind in style.

8 page Inspector Dayton story "Inspector Dayton prepares to embark on his long..."

Characters Inspector Dayton; Carlos Diez; Wini Damian; Russell Nelson
Genre detective
Pencils ? [as George Thatcher]
Inks ? [as George Thatcher]
Notes Possibly reprinted from E-I syndicated material. A few panels have extraneous numbers in corners and the size of the lettering varies, hinting at paste-up pages of differing sizes.