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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published October 1937
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Vincent Sullivan (associate), Whitney Ellsworth (Associate)

Cover Details

Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel

6 page Speed Saunders story "The River Patrol"

Characters I: Fred Dunn, the Skipper
Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel

6 page Larry Steele story "Mystery of the Wholesale Kidnappings: Part 4"

Characters V: Squinty, Dutch, Dr. Sargoff (I), Sonia Sargoff (I; his wife)
Genre detective
Script Will Ely
Pencils Will Ely
Inks Will Ely

6 page Cosmo story "The Disappearance of Carl Huntley"

Characters I: Carl Huntley
Pencils Sven Elven
Inks Sven Elven

12 page Bruce Nelson story "The Claws of the Red Dragon [Part 8]"

Characters V: Lu Gong, Chin Lung
Genre detective
Script Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Pencils Tom Hickey
Inks Tom Hickey
Notes conclusion of serial

6 page text story "The Laughing Mummy"

Script Gardner Fox (Paul Dean)
Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel
Letters typeset

4 page Bloodhound Brown filler

Genre humor
Script Russell Cole (as Alger)
Pencils Russell Cole (as Alger)
Inks Russell Cole (as Alger)

4 page Spy story "The Phony Pierre Blanc"

Characters I: Pierre Blanc; V: A killer (I)
Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster

6 page Buck Marshall story "Lucky Hunch"

Characters V: Morgen (I)
Script Homer Fleming
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming
Notes story in black and white

13 page Slam Bradley story "The Hillbillies"

Characters V: Zeke, Lem, and Lucy-Belle Willis and the Willises, the Tollivers (I for all)
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster
Notes title from last issue blurb