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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published Summer 1943
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 100
Editing Rod Reed

Cover Details - " Step Right Up, Folks!"

Characters Captain Marvel; Spy Smasher; Captain Marvel Jr.; Golden Arrow; Captain Midnight; Billy Batson
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks Pete Costanza ?

1 page credits

Notes Contents page.

19 page Captain Marvel story "Captain Marvel Plays Baseball On Mars"

Characters Martians (introduction); Dr. Pzzphz (introduction); General Hddy (introduction); Stostas (introduction)
Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

1 page Silent Sims filler

Genre gag

15 page Captain Midnight and Spy Smasher story "The Race Around the World"

Characters Yellow Hawk (villain, introduction)
Genre superhero

13 page Bulletman story "Meets Judge Lynch"

Characters Judge Lynch (villain, introduction, death); Voss
Genre superhero
Pencils Pete Riss ?
Inks Pete Riss ?

2 page text story "Flowers of Death"

Script Joseph J. Millard
Letters typeset

16 page Spy Smasher story "The Filming of Spy Smasher's Downfall"

Characters Josef Goebbels (villain); Hans (villain, a Spy Smasher double); Nazis (villain)
Genre spy; superhero
Script Otto Binder
Notes Another plug for Spy Smasher movie.

13 page Golden Arrow story "The Feud That Fizzled"

Characters Bart Gonifer (villain, introduction)
Genre western
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve ?
Inks Louis Cazeneuve ?

12 page Captain Marvel, Jr. story "Meets Mr. Morpheus"

Characters Mr. Morpheus (villain, introduction); Kurt
Genre superhero