| Issue | #8 |
| Published | Winter 1942-1943 |
| Cover Price | 0.15 USD |
| Pages | 100 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual) |
| Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson] |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Burnley |
| Inks | Jack Burnley |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38; in Batman: The World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1; in Superman: The World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 |
| Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Mr. Carroll (Sally's father); Mulligan (detective); Mr. Tollivar (talent agency director); Sally Carroll; Peter Penn (artist); Reginald Poindexter (actor); E. J. Calkins (writer); Tom Chester (musician); Crakewski (musicial conductor) |
| Synopsis | Clark Kent is given the assignment by Editor White to find a missing heiress, but along the way manages to help five other people realize their dreams.....as the Man of Steel! |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils | Sam Citron [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Inks | John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38; in Superman: The World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 |
| Characters | Drafty; Tim |
| Synopsis | Drafty and Tim are put on K.P. duty, but manage to break everything in sight, so they are assigned to anti-tank detail instead! |
| Genre | humor; military |
| Pencils | Stan Kaye (signed) |
| Inks | Stan Kaye (signed) |
| Notes | Writer revision from Stan Kaye? to ?. The Who's Who states that Kaye was artist only for this strip. |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | Zatara |
| Synopsis | A couple of crooks watch Zatara perform magic with an ancient lamp, so they steal it, hoping to use its magic to commit crimes. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Gardner F. Fox |
| Pencils | Joseph Sulman (signed) |
| Inks | Joseph Sulman (signed) |
| Notes | Following this story is a full page ad for: More Fun #86, All-American #45, Flash #36, Sensation #12, Detective #70, Action #55, Adventure #81 and Star Spangled #15. |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan] |
| Synopsis | Having had a petty quarrel with Sylvester, Stripesy decides to go into the detective business himself.....with disastrous results! |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Hal Sherman (signed) |
| Inks | Hal Sherman (signed) |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38. |
| Characters | Pvt. Pete |
| Genre | humor; military |
| Script | Henry Boltinoff |
| Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
| Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
| Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | The Boy Commandos [Brooklyn (aka Dan Turpin); Alfie Twidgett; Andre Chavard; Jan Haasan]; Captain Rip Carter; Jared Leppart (villain, death) |
| Synopsis | The last living Leppart is haunted by his ancestors' curse: to die by one of the four elements. |
| Genre | war; adventure |
| Script | Jack Kirby (signed) (possibly co-plotted by Joe Simon) |
| Pencils | Joe Simon (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Kirby (signed) |
| Notes | Art identification by Craig Delich (May, 2004) and writer identification by Martin O'Hearn. |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | Vasil; Tovarrich Aronya |
| Synopsis | Vasil has traveled through the snow and the cold with secret plans in his possession only to be uncovered as a spy by a Russian peasant. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich 2008-1-15. |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; James Luckless (villain, introduction, death) |
| Synopsis | James Luckless has had bad luck all of his life, so now he decides to use people's lucky symbols against them and for himself! |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Joseph Green |
| Pencils | Cliff Young |
| Inks | Steve Brodie |
| Notes | Art identification by Craig Delich (May, 2004). |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | Uncle Sam; General George Washington; General Charles Cornwallis |
| Synopsis | Throughout history, American men have been ready and willing at a moment's notice to stand and fight for this nation's freedom.....a call now being accepted by a new generation of "minute men"! |
| Genre | political |
| Script | M. C. Gaines (signed) |
| Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed) |
| Inks | Sheldon Moldoff [as Shelly] (signed) |
| Reprinted | in Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1942 series) #3 (Summer, 1943); in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | Carson; Saro; Conway |
| Synopsis | Little Saro has been chastised repeatedly about playing with matches, as he was too young to do so, yet it was that very thing that helped save himself and others from the Japanese. |
| Genre | war |
| Script | Noble Dade (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | After this story, a full page ad appears giving promotions for More Fun Comics #87, Adventure #82 and Wonder Woman #2. |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | The King [King Standish]; Al Norton; The Chicken (villain) |
| Synopsis | While riding the subway, the King decides to make himself up like a passenger he sees sleeping in a seat. Unknown to him, that man is a reporter who has belittled "The Chicken," whom he suspects in involved with the Nazis! |
| Genre | detective |
| Script | Gardner F. Fox |
| Pencils | Joe Gallagher |
| Inks | Joe Gallagher |
| Notes | Art id by Craig Delich 8/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-15-08. Following this story is a full page ad promoting All-Star #14, All-Flash #7, Batman #14, Superman #20, Mutt and Jeff #6, Green Lantern #5 and Leading Comics #4. |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |
| Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; John O'Brien (introduction, a G-Man, death); Tim O'Brien (introduction); Nick O'Brien (introduction); The Little Corporal [Little Nap Boyd] (villain, introduction); Slim (villain); Bat-Plane |
| Synopsis | The untimely death of their father leads the O'Brien brothers to attempt to get even with his killer, while working at odds against one another. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jack Schiff |
| Pencils | Jack Burnley [as Bob Kane] (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Burnley [as Bob Kane] (signed); Ray Burnley (backgrounds) |
| Letters | Betty Bentley |
| Notes | Art credits by Craig Delich (May, 2004). |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38; in Batman: The World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1 |
| Characters | The Boy Commandos [Brooklyn (aka Dan Turpin); Alfie Twidgett; Andre Chavard; Jan Haasan]; Captain Rip Carter |
| Synopsis | Promotional announcement, with cover pictured and stories listed, for Boy Commandos #1. |
| Genre | war; adventure |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Joe Simon |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Sequence added by Craig Delich 2008-1-15. |
| Reprinted | in Flashback Golden Age Comic Reprints (Funnies Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 series) #38 |