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