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Issue Details

Issue #29
Published May 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer, editor; Ted Udall (assistant ed)

Cover Details

Characters Hawkman; Hawkgirl
Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff

13 page Flash story "The Man Who Harnessed the Sun"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]
Synopsis The Fastest Man Alive faces a mad scientist who has invented a machine capable of tracking the Flash at the speed of light and destroying him with purple lightning.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Everett E. Hibbard
Inks Hal Sharp
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 10/04; synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-3-07.

8 page Johnny Thunder story "Spooks"

Characters Johnny Thunder
Genre superhero; humor
Script John B. Wentworth
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier

8 page Ghost Patrol story "The Costume Brawl"

Characters The Ghost Patrol (intro)
Genre War
Script Ted Udall; Emmanuel Demby
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry

7 page The King story "The Writer and the Witch"

Characters The King; V: the Witch
Genre detective
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Harry Lampert
Inks Harry Lampert
Letters Harry Lampert
Notes Writer & letterer credits by Craig Delich 10/04.

6 page The Whip story "Bank Holdup"

Characters The Whip [Rod Gaynor]
Genre superhero; western
Script Charles Reizenstein
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04.

7 page Minute Movies story "Jailbreak"

Genre adventure; humor
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan

9 page Hawkman story "The Case of the Human Plants"

Characters The Hawkman [Carter Hall]
Synopsis Hawk faces the deadly danger of a maniac who has developed a species of half-human, thinking and talking plants.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-3-07.