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Issue Details

Issue #30
Published August 1941
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 68
Editing Malcolm Reiss (Editor); S. M. Iger (Feature Editor)

Cover Details - "Slashing Fangs"

Characters Sheena
Genre jungle
Pencils Dan Zolnerowich
Inks Dan Zolnerowich
Letters typeset

12 page Sheena story Slashing Fangs ["Unscrupulous jungle traders find that their criminal methods..."]

Characters M-Gali; Gaston De Mond; Bob; Matt
Genre jungle
Script ? [as W. Morgan Thomas]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks Robert Webb
Notes The story title is taken from the cover.

6 page Stuart Taylor story "High over a desolate spot in mid-atlantic hover..."

Characters Dr. Hayward; Laura; Pilari
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Curt Davis]
Pencils Seymour Reit
Inks Seymour Reit

1 page Bobby filler "No, you can't have any more cookies tonight..."

Genre humor
Script S. M. Iger
Pencils S. M. Iger
Inks S. M. Iger

6 page Midnight the Black Stallion story "Captured as a colt in the bad lands..."

Characters Joe; Gray Fox; Helen
Genre western
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf

6 page Lightning story "General Larkin, U.S. army, never suspects that..."

Characters General Larkin
Genre superhero
Script ? [as Teller Tayles]
Pencils Maxwell Elkan?
Inks John Cassone?
Notes This is same date as Feature #47 when Elkan begins Samar. I think there's a different inker here and it just might be John Cassone...

2 page text story "The Horrible Hands"

Characters Studs Logan; Professor Harken
Genre science fiction
Script Kledge Thomas

7 page Inspector Dayton story "It takes quick wits and fast shooting to..."

Characters Rinkie; Arthur Salt; Marion Windsor; Marty Dugan; Pine Box; Mike the Cabbie
Genre detective
Script ? [as George Thatcher]
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf

7 page ZX-5 Spies In Action story "The famous international agent goes to school again..."

Characters Hansi; Von Herring
Genre spy
Script ? [as Major Thorpe]
Pencils Mort Leav
Inks Al Bryant?

Half page Pee Wee story "They's two things in life I hate an'..."

Genre gags
Script S. M. Iger
Pencils S. M. Iger
Inks S. M. Iger

Half page Uncle Otto filler "pantomime gag strip"

Genre gags
Script Will Eisner [as Heck]
Pencils Will Eisner [as Heck]
Inks Will Eisner [as Heck]

5 page Tom, Dick, And Harry story "Tom Devlin and Dick Swenson, American aces in..."

Genre war
Script ? [as Charles Tansul]
Pencils Maxwell Elkan?
Inks John Cassone?
Notes I guess we're seeing the same team as on Lightning.

1 page Jumbo Laffs filler "But I tell you, madame, I am not..."

Genre gags
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Bob Kane?
Inks Bob Kane?
Notes Could this really be THAT Stan Lee?

10 page The Hawk story "Up and down the Carolinas roam vicious buccaneers..."

Characters Fluth; Don Filippo Alvarez; Caleb
Genre period
Script ? [as Willis B. Rensie]
Pencils Will Eisner; shop
Inks Will Eisner; shop
Notes Eisner panels are cut and pasted from earlier episodes of The Hawk that were printed in Jumbo #s 1-15. The storyline is new.
Reprinted All Eisner art in this story is reprinted.