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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March-April 1951
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Richard E. Hughes

Cover Details

Characters Captain Crossbones
Genre Adventure
Pencils Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks Ogden Whitney (signed)

10 page Ace Carter story "Meet Ace Carter"

Characters Ace Carter; Miss Ellen Prescott; Bruce; Professor Anthony Prescott (Flashback)
Synopsis Ellen Prescott hires Ace Carter to lead her to a place in the jungle where her father had located a diamond necklace.
Genre Adventure; Jungle
Pencils Leonard Starr
Inks Leonard Starr

1 page text story "A Mission for the General"

Genre Adventure
Letters typeset

12 page Captain Crossbones story "Captain Crossbones -- Soldier of Fortune"

Characters Captain Crossbones [Tom Rutherford]; Captain Smithers; Alf; Blackhand (Pirate); Duke; Lady Nancy Terrence
Synopsis Tom runs away and stows on a ship as a youngster. He is eventually captured by pirates, where he grows to adulthood. When the captain captures Lady Nancy Terrence, Tom kills him and becomes Captain Crossbones.
Genre Adventure; Period
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
Inks Sheldon Moldoff (signed)
Notes Origin of Captain Crossbones.

2 page story "The Sioux Massacres"

Characters Jim Bridger; Colonel Fetterman; Red Cloud
Synopsis The story of the Fetterman Massacre and the reprisal by the U.S. Calvary.
Genre Western; Fact
Pencils Edmond Good
Inks Edmond Good
Notes Based on true events.

1 page text story "Gamble Against Odds"

Genre Adventure
Letters typeset

6 page True Soldiers of Fortune story "Richard Burton, alias Ruffian Dick"

Characters Richard Burton; Isabel Arundel; Grand Emir of Harar
Synopsis The story of Richard Burton and his adventures, including being the first white man to see the sacred Moslem ceremonies in Mecca and discovering lake Tanganyika.
Genre Adventure
Pencils Arthur Peddy
Inks Arthur Peddy

1 page text story "Galley Slaves"

Letters typeset

13 page Lance Larson story "The Man of a Thousand Faces!"

Characters Lance Larson; Midge; Atlas; Zortan; Alexi Ivanov
Synopsis Lance Larson must stop some spies from stealing the secret behind Alexi Ivanov's new cosmic-ray powered weapon.
Genre Adventure
Pencils Edmond Good
Inks Edmond Good