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Issue Details

Issue	#v2#4 [16]
Published	June 1943
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	William DeGrouchy
Notes	#16

Cover Details

Pencils	Jack Binder?
Inks	Jack Binder?
Notes	#16

19 page Doc Savage story "Death Traps of Hidden Valley"

Characters	Doc Savage; Monk; Ham; Myrtle Rose; The Skull (villain)
Synopsis	Doc wears hood.
Notes	cont'd next issue

8 page Ajax the Sun Man story The Sun Man Sets the "Rising" Sun

Characters	Dr. Lana Pritchard
Script	Ed Gruskin
Pencils	Jack Binder
Inks	Jack Binder

6 page Astron, Crocodile Queen story "The Scorpionese Men"

Characters

Astron; Cassidy; Scorpionese Men (first appearance; villains, some deaths); Japanese (villains)

8 page story "Bob Fitzsimmons Who Held Three World Titles"

Genre	Sports
Script	Thornton Fisher
Pencils	Thornton Fisher
Inks	Thornton Fisher
Letters	Thornton Fisher

8 page Avenger story "The Secret Formula"

Characters	Avenger; Smitty; Mack; Roger Crowley (first appearance); Fenton (first appearance; villain; death)
Pencils	Jack Binder
Inks	Jack Binder
Notes	title taken from blurb at story's end

6 page story The Mother of "Baby Snooks", Fannie Brice

Genre

Fact; Biography

2 page text article "This Is Logistics"

Script	The Sharpshooter
Letters	typeset