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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published June 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Abner Sundell

Cover Details

Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick

11 page Shield story "The Mosconian Menace, Part 6"

Characters GA: The Wizard; V: The Mosconians
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick
Notes continued from TOP-NOTCH COMICS #?

7 page Comet story "Stinger Lee's Ray of Darkness"

Characters I: Thelma Gordon; V: Stinger Lee (I, D)
Synopsis Comet still an outlaw
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole

6 page Press Guardian story "The Corruption of Senator Palmgreas"

Characters V: Sen. Palmgreas, Killer Scaretti (I for both)
Script Abner Sundell
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin

6 page Fu Chang story "The Man-Eating Plants of Yen Fat Sing"

Characters V: Yen Fat Sing (I, D)
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter

7 page Sergeant Boyle story "The Crackdown of Captain Twerp"

Characters I: Captain Twerp; V: Von Blotz (I)
Script Abner Sundell
Pencils Charles Biro
Inks Charles Biro

6 page Midshipman story "The Army-Navy Baseball Game"

Characters V: A gang of gamblers (I)
Script Bob Wood?
Pencils Bob Wood?
Inks Bob Wood?

6 page Rocket and the Queen of Diamonds story "Chief of the Ape Men"

Characters V: Ape-Men (D), Ungar (I, D); GA: Prince Falkar, Hawkmen
Script Abner Sundell
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter
Notes continued next issue

1 page text story "What Coyotes Eat"

Letters typeset

6 page Kayo Ward story "Ten Straight Knockouts"

Characters V: Killer Slick, Candy Morgan (I for both)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Bob Wood
Inks Bob Wood
Notes continued next issue

6 page Bentley of Scotland Yard story "Man-Monster of London"

Characters V: The Monster (I, D), Remek (I), the Prince of Inrak (I); I: Rajah of Inrak
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Sam Cooper
Inks Sam Cooper