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Issue Details

Issue #43
Published June 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Rod Reed

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks Pete Costanza?

1 page filler "Contents Page"

15 page Captain Marvel story "Sabotage at the Printing Plant"

Characters Spy Smasher; Ibis; Golden Arrow;Steamboat; Adolf Hitler; Rod Reed (? appears); Captain Marvel, Jr. (Cameo)
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Notes Nazis try to stop Whiz Comics from being printed.

16 page Spy Smasher story "Spy Smasher Discovers the Streamlined Treasure Island!"

Genre spy; superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Emil Gershwin
Inks Emil Gershwin
Notes Story based on Stevenson's TREASURE ISLAND.
Reprinted in Spy Smasher Comics (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1942 series) #v2#5; in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #69

9 page Golden Arrow story "Golden Arrow and the Petrified Forest"

Genre western
Pencils Harry Parkhurst
Inks Harry Parkhurst

8 page Lance O'Casey story "The Mystery of the Ghost Destroyer"

Genre adventure
Notes Story title corrected June 2009.

2 page text story "As Good As Dead"

Script Ray Tender
Letters Typeset

10 page Ibis the Invincible story "The Man Who Sold His Soul To the Devil"

Characters The Devil; Nero; Brutus; Robespierre
Genre occult; superhero
Pencils Bob Hebboa?
Inks Bob Hebboa?
Notes Story based on Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster".