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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published October 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Harry Shorten

Cover Details

Pencils Edd Ashe?
Inks Edd Ashe?
Reprinted in Black Hood, The (Archie, 1983 series) #1

13 page Black Hood story "Origin of the Black Hood"

Characters I & O: The Black Hood (Kip Burland); V: The Skull (I); I: The Hermit, Mrs. Sutton, Barbara Sutton, David Seymon
Script Cliff Campbell
Pencils Al Camy
Inks Al Camy

6 page Galahad story "The Earning of the Magic Sword"

Characters I: The Lady of the Lake, Garlan; V: Lady Morgana, a monster (I, D)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter

8 page Firefly story "Dr. Dread's Return From the Dead"

Characters V: Dr. Dread (I, D), zombies (I, D), Sneaky (I)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Bob Wood
Inks Bob Wood

4 page Fran Frazer story "The Invasion of Luxeria"

Characters I: Fran Frazer, Hal Davis
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick

8 page Wizard story "The Bail Bond Racketeers"

Characters V: Bail bond racketeers (I)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Edd Ashe
Inks Edd Ashe

6 page Wings Johnson story "The Nazis' Hidden Guns"

Characters V: The Nazis
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Ed Smalle
Inks Ed Smalle

6 page Bob Phantom story "Ah Ku and the Council of Seven"

Characters V: Ah Ku and her gang; I: The Council of Seven (three D)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Bernard Klein
Inks Bernard Klein

1 page text story "The Mother Lode"

Letters typeset

5 page Keith Kornell story "The Army-Colby Game"

Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Ed Wexler
Inks Ed Wexler

6 page Kardak story "The Master Brahmins: Part 4"

Characters V: The Great Rexa and the Transparent People (I for all)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Bernard Klein
Inks Bernard Klein