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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published March 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing George Brenner*

Cover Details - "Uncle Sam Smashes The Syndicate of Crime"

Characters Uncle Sam; Buddy
Genre war; occult
Pencils Alex Kotzky
Inks Alex Kotzky

11 page Uncle Sam story "Uncle Sam and the Syndicate of Crime"

Characters Uncle Sam; Buddy (his kid assistant); Number One [Crayley the jeweller] (masked the Crime Club leader)
Genre superhero; war; occult
Pencils Art Seymour
Inks Art Seymour

1 page Windy Breeze filler "Champ Liar"

Genre humor
Script Ralph Johns
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole

7 page Destroyer 171 story "Rendezvous with Death!!"

Characters Commander Blake
Genre war
Pencils Al Camy?
Inks Al Camy?

1 page Salty Waters filler

Genre humor
Script Bernard Dibble
Pencils Bernard Dibble
Inks Bernard Dibble

7 page Quicksilver story "Quicksilver, ex-circus acrobat and the fastest human being, is always..."

Characters Count Kordo (money-mad fake); Mrs van Gelt; Mrs Dohevy
Genre superhero
Script Fred Guardineer
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed)
Inks Fred Guardineer

8 page Policewoman Sally O'Neil story "The Cruise of Death!"

Characters Jerry Jerome (millionaire)
Genre detective
Pencils Al Bryant
Inks Al Bryant

6 page Chic Carter story "Murder as an Art!!"

Characters Chic Carter (ace reporter); Detective Monahan; Higby Haye (murdered millionaire)
Genre detective
Script Vernon Henkel
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

2 page text story "The Coward"

Letters typeset

6 page Unknown, The story ["Madness! ...Men dread the terrors of that word..."}

Genre superhero
Pencils Rudy Palais
Inks Rudy Palais

7 page G-2 story "The Blackout Looters!"

Characters Don Leash [G-2, ace army intelligence operative]
Genre spy
Script Don Rico?
Pencils Don Rico
Inks Don Rico