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Issue Details

Issue #v4 #1
Published February 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Ed Cronin
Notes #36

Cover Details

Characters Airboy
Genre adventure; aviation
Pencils Dan Barry ?
Inks Dan Barry ?
Notes This issue is whole number #36.

13 page Airboy story "The Elephants' Graveyard"

Characters Airboy
Genre adventure; aviation
Pencils Carmine Infantino ?
Inks Carmine Infantino ?

10 page Heap story "Von Emmelmann's Pearls"

Characters The Heap [Baron von Emmelmann]; Rickie Wood
Genre adventure
Script Dick Wood
Pencils Arthur F. Peddy ?
Inks Bernard Sachs ?
Colors Dick Wood
Notes Rickie Wood appears; builds model of Birdie, Airboy's plane.

8 page Iron Lady story "The Gloves of the Executioner"

Characters Iron Lady [Doris Parker](introduction, origin); Walter P. Parker (Doris' father, death); Zurich Burn (watchmaker); Mr. Lusen
Synopsis A famed but abused watch maker invents an ugly but powerful pair of gloves that can give anyone tremendous, deadly strength in their hands......strength now used by the daughter of a murdered tobacco king to exact justice!
Genre adventure
Pencils Dan Zolnerowich
Inks Dan Zolnerowich
Notes Next appearance in Clue Comics Volume 2 #1.
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #82 (2010) [reprinted in B/W in this format]

2 page text story "Detective On Horseback"

Genre adventure
Letters typeset

1 page Baron Buckskin story

Characters Baron Buckskin
Genre humor
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Colors Art Helfant
Letters Art Helfant
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-9-4.

4 page Skinny McGinty story "Double For a Star"

Characters Skinny McGinty
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta
Notes Last Skinny McGinty story.

1 page Henry the 8th story

Genre humor
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Colors Art Helfant
Letters Art Helfant
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-9-4.

8 page Iron Ace story "The Tiger Cult"

Characters Iron Ace
Genre adventure; aviation
Pencils Robert Q. Sale
Inks Robert Q. Sale
Notes Last Iron Ace story.

1 page story "A Tale of Darkness"

Genre humor
Script Dick Hall
Pencils Dick Hall
Inks Dick Hall
Colors Dick Hall