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Issue Details

Issue #62
Published April 1944
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 52
Editing Claude Lapham (Editor); S.M. Iger (Art Director)
Notes First 52-page issue. Claude Lapham replaces John Byrne as editor.

Cover Details - "Valley of Golden Death"

Genre jungle
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf
Notes First 52-page issue. Claude Lapham replaces John Byrne as editor.

12 page Sheena story Valley of Golden Death ["There's a safari ahead, Bob! Let's see where..."]

Characters Villain: Bronson; Ligao; Creeper; another crook (Introduction, Death for all). Introduction: Zagula (Death); Zagula's daughter
Genre jungle
Script ? [as W. Morgan Thomas]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks ? (shop)
Notes The title is taken from the cover.

6 page ZX-5 Spies In Action story "Inside a mountain hangar in occupied Holland, a..."

Characters Introduction: Mr. Grynn; Miss Grynn. Villain: Oberleutnant Krager; Kapitan Mueller (Introduction, Death for both)
Genre spies
Script ? [as Major Thorpe]
Pencils Arnold Hicks
Inks Arnold Hicks?; ? (shop)

6 page The Hawk story "In a private room of a noisy pub..."

Characters Introduction: Captain Snyde; Miss Snyde. Villain: Captain Morg; Thomas (both Introduction, Death)
Genre period
Script ? [as Willis Rensie]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks Ann Brewster?; ? (shop)

5 page Stuart Taylor story "A burly minion of the law gives time..."

Characters Introduction: Sir Robert Peel; Sir Clarence
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Curt Davis]
Pencils Robert Webb?; ? (shop)
Inks ? (shop)

5 page Midnight The Wild Black Stallion story "From a nearby knoll Midnight's herd mills around..."

Genre western
Script ? [as West Erner]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks ? (shop)

4 page Inspector Dayton and the Creep story "Inspector Dayton! There's Olson, the town character with..."

Characters Introduction: Olson; James (Death). Villain: Lawson; Lawson's secretary (Introduction for both)
Genre detective
Script ? [as George Thatcher]
Pencils Arnold Hicks
Inks Arnold Hicks?; ? (shop)

2 page text story "Star Spangled Bundle"

Genre war
Script Toni Blum? [as Tom Alexander]
Letters typeset

9 page The Ghost Gallery story "Howard Ross. Chicago. That spring night of so..."

Characters Introduction: Howard Ross; Thelda (Death); Leila D'Adorr; Sen. Payne; Baldy Dana (latter three are ghosts); other ghosts
Script ? [as Drew Murdoch]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum?; ? (shop)