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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1966
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details

Characters Mighty Crusaders [Fly-Man [Thomas Troy]; the Comet [John Dickering]; The Shield [Bill Higgins]; Black Hood [Matthew Burland]]; Evilo the Tempter; The Spider; The Madman; The Creature from the Abyss
Genre Superhero
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

12 page Fly Man story "The Creature from the Abyss"

Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted from Fly Man (Archie, 1965 series) #34 (November 19650

8 page Fly Man story "The Fly Man's Partners in Peril"

Characters Fly-Man [Thomas Troy]; The Comet [John Dickering]; The Black Hood [Matthew Burland]; The Shield [Bill Higgins]; The Spider; Boppo the Mighty; Flipsy the Terrific; Basher the Dynamic
Synopsis The Spider escapes from prison and vows revenge on Fly-Man. He traps Fly-Man in a gigantic, electrified claw but is then saved by the Comet.
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Part 1
Reprinted from Fly Man (Archie, 1965 series) #31 (May 1965)

12 page Fly Man story "Battle of the Super-Heroes!"

Characters Mighty Crusaders [Fly-Man [Thomas Troy]; The Shield [Bill Higgins]; The Comet [John Dickering]; The Black Hood [Matthew Burland]]; Nightmare (Black Hood's robot horse); The Spider; Boppo the Mighty; Flipsy the Terrific; Basher the Dynamic
Synopsis The Spider lures Fly-Man into 2 more death traps, but he escapes the first with the Shield's help, and the second with the Black Hood's aid. Finally he brings all the heroes together to form the Mighty Crusaders, with the idea of eliminating them all at once. But Fly-Man chases the others away just as his powers fade and the Spider pulls a gun on him.
Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Part 2
Reprinted from Fly Man (Archie, 1965 series) #31 (May 1965)

5 page Fly Man story "The Wicked Web of the Wily Spider!"

Characters Mighty Crusaders [Fly-Man [Thomas Troy]; the Comet [John Dickering]; The Shield [Bill Higgins]; Black Hood [Matthew Burland]]; Nightmare (Black Hood's robot horse); The Spider
Synopsis Just as the Spider appears triumphant, Fly-Man defeats him and the other heroes return. Fly-Man had faked his power loss and the others faked being mad at him in order to draw the Spider out. But the heroes ponder whether they should form the Mighty Crusaders for real.
Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Part 3
Reprinted from Fly Man (Archie, 1965 series) #31 (May 1965)

10 page The Web story "The Mad Caper of the Madman"

Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted from Fly Man (Archie, 1965 series) #38 (July 1966)

12 page The Shield story "Evilo, the Tempter"

Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted from Fly Man (Archie, 1965 series) #34 (November 1965)