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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published April 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Sheldon Mayer

Cover Details

Characters The Green Lantern
Genre superhero
Pencils Howard Purcell
Inks Howard Purcell
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

10 page The Green Lantern story "Sabotage at the Steel Mills"

Characters The Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Irene Miller; Mr. Sterling; Barlow; Mr. Straker; Harkiss (Villain; Death); "Rock" Dawson (Villain)
Synopsis Irene is sent by Apex Studios to discover why strange accidents and murders have been occuring at the Sterling Steel Mills, an investigation that nearly costs her her life if not for the intervention of the weird Green Lantern.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger (signed)
Pencils Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Inks Martin Nodell [as Mart Dellon] (signed)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-9-08.
Reprinted in Golden Age Green Lantern Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1

6 page The Atom story "The Hunt for Earl Evans"

Characters The Atom [Al Pratt]; Mary James; Earl Evans (villain); Nick (villain); Tony (villain); Jack (villain)
Synopsis Al and Mary witness some criminals escaping from the Police, and Mary follows them in her own car. But when the crooks have a flat tire, they kidnap Mary and escape in her car.
Genre superhero
Script Bill O'Connor
Pencils Ben Flinton
Inks Leonard Sansone
Notes Inker credit verified by Craig Delich & Jerry Bails (Nov. 2005). Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-8-09.

4 page Scribbly and the Red Tornado story "The Cyclone Kids"

Characters Red Tornado [Ma Hunkel]; Scribbly; the Cyclone Kids [Sisty Hunkel and Dinky Jibbet].
Genre superhero; humor
Script Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Pencils Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Letters Sheldon Mayer

6 page Hop Harrigan story "Smash the Spy Ring"

Characters Hop Harrigan (as the Guardian Angel; Intro)
Synopsis Hop Harrigan becomes a costumed hero.
Genre aviation; superhero
Script Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Pencils Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Inks Jon L. Blummer (signed)
Letters Jon L. Blummer
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 3-9-08.

1 page Hop Harrigan's History of American Aviation filler "Transatlantic Flights"

Characters Hop Harrigan
Genre fact
Pencils Jon L. Blummer
Inks Jon L. Blummer
Notes Credits added by Craig Delich 3-9-08.

8 page Dr. Mid-Nite story "How He Began"

Characters Dr. Mid-Nite [Dr. Charles McNider] (Intro; Origin); Myra Mason (Intro); Hooty (Intro); Mr. Schlitz; "Killer" Maroni (villain); Buggsy (villain); Mike (villain)
Synopsis Blinded by a mobster's bomb, Dr. McNider gives up the practice of medicine to write articles for crime magazines. But a chance accident, with an owl crashing through the former doctor's window during the night, allows McNider to discover that he can see in the dark [as well as in the daylight with special infra-red goggles he creates], so he decides to adopt the secret identity of Dr. Mid-Nite to round up "Killer" and bring him to justice for his crimes.
Genre superhero
Script Charles Reizenstein
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 3-27-08.
Reprinted In Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #95 (December 1971); in JSA All Stars Archives, The (DC, 2007 series) #1

2 page Popsicle Pete story "One Round O'Rourke"

Characters Pete; O'Rourke
Genre gag
Script Art Helfant (signed)
Pencils Art Helfant (signed)
Inks Art Helfant (signed)

3 page Mutt and Jeff/ Cicero's Cat filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat
Genre sitcom
Script Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints.

2 page Mutt and Jeff/Cicero's Cat filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff; Cicero's cat
Genre funny animal
Script Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints.

1 page Mutt and Jeff filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff
Genre sitcom
Script Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Pencils Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Inks Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed)
Letters Al Smith
Notes Newspaper reprints.

1 page Jimmy Stone text story "The Missing Witness Part 2"

Characters Jimmy Stone
Genre adventure
Script Evelyn Gaines (signed)
Pencils Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)
Inks Sheldon Mayer (spot illo)
Letters typeset
Notes Announcement that Sargon begins next issue on bottom half of second page of this feature.

Half page All-American Comics Monthly Book Review filler "The Rover"

Genre fact
Script Jack Jaros (signed)
Letters typeset

6 page Adventures in the Unknown story "Rescue on Mars: Part 6"

Characters Ted; Alan; Jack; Dr. Luytens
Genre science fiction
Script Carl H. Claudy (signed)
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier
Notes Last appearance.

8 page Red, White and Blue story "Mystery of the Vanishing Pilots"

Characters Red Dugan; Whitey White; Blooey Blue; Doris West
Genre adventure
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Howard Purcell
Inks Howard Purcell