Issue Details

Issue	#38
Published	December 1942
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Rod Reed

Cover Details - "The Grand Steeplechase"

Characters	Captain Marvel
Genre	superhero
Pencils	C. C. Beck
Inks	Pete Costanza?

1 page filler "Contents Page"

15 page Captain Marvel story "The Grand Steeplechase"

Characters	Steamboat
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Marc Swayze
Inks	Marc Swayze

9 page Golden Arrow story "The Vanishing Trains"

Genre	western
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Al Carreno?
Inks	Al Carreno?

9 page Spy Smasher story "The Phantom Sub"

Genre	spy; superhero
Pencils	Emil Gershwin?
Inks	Emil Gershwin?

1 page Mad Artist, The filler

Genre

Humor

2 page text story "Cry By Night"

Script	Jim Kjelgaard
Letters	Typeset

8 page Lance O'Casey story "Sinks the Japs"

Genre	adventure
Pencils	Clem Weisbecker
Inks	Clem Weisbecker
Notes	Title taken from contents page.
Reprinted	in Lance O'Casey [Mighty Midget Comic] (Samuel E. Lowe & Co., 1943 series) #12

10 page Ibis the Invincible story "Murgh the Merciless"

Characters	Ibistick (Origin details); Murgh (Villain; Intro); Rotep (Villain; Intro; Death)
Genre	occult; superhero
Pencils	Bob Hebboa?
Inks	Bob Hebboa?

6 page Colonel Porterhouse story "The Briny Avenger and the Wolves of the Deep"

Characters	Colonel Porterhouse
Genre	humor; satire
Pencils	George Storm
Inks	George Storm
Notes	Parody of this issue's Spy Smasher story; artist George Storm appears in last panel of the story.