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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published Spring 1943
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 96
Editing M. C. Gaines (managing editor); Sheldon Mayer, editor
Notes All story synopses by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005), some modified by Craig Delich 8-31-09. This issue contains an essay contest for a story appearing in this issue "Tomorrow the World", and results were published in issue #14.

Cover Details

Characters Wonder Woman; Flash; Green Lantern.
Genre superhero
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry
Notes All story synopses by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005), some modified by Craig Delich 8-31-09. This issue contains an essay contest for a story appearing in this issue "Tomorrow the World", and results were published in issue #14.
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

13 page Wonder Woman story "Wanted by Hitler, Dead or Alive"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; Etta Candy; Fausta Grables (villain, aka Rora Blank); 5th Columnists (villains).
Synopsis Diana Prince is sitting at her desk one day when a woman enters, posing as a reporter, and asks very personal questions about Wonder Woman. Sensing something is wrong, Diana refuses to answer questions, but Steve Trevor is taken in, not realizing the woman is a Nazi agent, Fausta Grables. She eventually steals Wonder Woman's costume and poses as her for an Army benefit show.
Genre superhero
Script William Moulton Marston
Pencils Frank Godwin
Inks Frank Godwin
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

8 page Ghost Patrol story "The Haunted Tank"

Characters Ghost Patrol: Fred, Slim and Pedro; Adolf Hitler (villain); Professor Zimplepuss (villain).
Synopsis Hitler's forces have created a super tank that carries a division of soldiers that can travel on land and in the sea. The Ghost Patrol must find a way to stop the tank before it successfully lands in America.
Genre war
Script Ted Udall
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich, updated 8/04.
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

2 page Simp O'Dell filler

Characters Simp O'Dell
Genre humor
Script Sol Hess [signed as Hess]
Pencils Sol Hess [signed as Hess]
Inks Sol Hess [signed as Hess]
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

8 page Black Pirate and Son story "They Wind Up in the Doghouse"

Characters The Black Pirate [Jon Valor]; Justin Valor; Donna Valor; Captain Gore (villain).
Synopsis At the request of his wife, Jon Valor makes a trip to the treasure-laden East to get her new dresses.
Genre period
Script Ted Udall (signed)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [signed as Shelly]
Inks Sheldon Moldoff [signed as Shelly]
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

2 page Hop Harrigan text story "The Tin-Fish Bobsled"

Characters Hop Harrigan; Tank Tinker.
Synopsis Hop and a squadron of Douglas Devastators are on the way to Iceland to search out Nazi raiders, when a storm threatens, and forces all the planes to turn back...except Hop, who decides to continue on.
Genre aviation
Script Evelyn Gaines?
Pencils Jon L. Blummer (spot illo)
Inks Jon L. Blummer (spot illo)
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

6 page Minute Movies story "Covered Caravan"

Characters Sam Hill [Andrew Handy]; Lem Sharper [Ralph McSneer]; Sally Sue Hill [Blanche Rouge]; Zeke Skidmore [Fuller Phun]; Jed Hoskins [Dick Dare].
Synopsis Sam Hill and his daughter are making their way to the Golden West when they are attacked by Indians.
Genre adventure; humor
Script Ed Wheelan (signed)
Pencils Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inks Ed Wheelan (signed)
Letters Ed Wheelan
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

1 page Film Fools [Fat and Slat] filler The "Corn" Doctors

Characters Flat; Slat.
Genre humor
Script Ed Wheelan (signed)
Pencils Ed Wheelan (signed)
Inks Ed Wheelan (signed)
Letters Ed Wheelan
Notes Consists of three, two-panel non-related humorous gag cartoons plus one panel pushing war bonds and stamps, from an idea provided by Private Eddie Sacks. Sequence and letterer credit added by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005).
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

6 page Mutt and Jeff filler

Characters Mutt; Jeff.
Genre humor
Script Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Pencils Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Inks Al Smith [signed as Bud Fisher]
Letters Al Smith
Notes These strips are newspaper reprints. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 8-31-09.
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

13 page Green Lantern story "Handsome John Riley...."

Characters Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Doiby Dickles; Irene Miller; John Riley; Chief of Detectives Brannigan; Police Commissioner Leaffe; Wilmer; Torpedo Tony (villain); Shifty Spiro (villain).
Synopsis Green Lantern feverishly works on trying to solve a crime before Handsome John Riley can move in on his girl, Irene Miller.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Jon Chester Kozlak [signed as C. Kozlak]
Inks Jon Chester Kozlak [signed as C. Kozlak]
Notes Doiby appears in a Green Lantern costume on the splash page only. Alan Scott works for Apex Studios in this story.
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

10 page Wildcat story "The Story Behind the Bellyache"

Characters Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Stretch Skinner; Killer Hooke; Sock Smith.
Synopsis Sock Smith decides to hang up his boxing gloves forever and open up his own restaurant, "The Glove." However, across the street is another restaurant owned by a former fighter, Killer Hooke, who doesn't like the prospect of competition and decides to do something about it. Wildcat must move in before something terrible can occur, and decides to match up the two former fighters in a winner-take-all match.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Irwin Hasen (signed)
Inks Irwin Hasen (signed)
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

2 page text story "He Saved the President -- Almost"

Characters Jackie Burton; Inspector Casey; Hennessey; 5th Columnists (villains).
Synopsis Jackie Burton, second year student at Warren High, was out looking for scrap metal when he came across a couple of Hitler's Fifth Columnists, one of which was murdered by the other for bungling an assignment. Staying in the shadows to avoid being seen, Jackie runs across a copper wire leading to fifteen sticks of dynamite, located underneath a street that the President would be soon traveling over.
Genre adventure
Script Jay Marr (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence added by Craig Delich (Dec. 2005). The last half of page two is an ad for All-Star Comics #16 with the cover.
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

6 page Red, White and Blue story "Punk Junk"

Characters Red Dugan; Blooey Blue; Whitey Smith; Doris West; Schaeffer (villain).
Synopsis Blooey, trying to catch up with Red and Whitey, accidently steps on a man's foot. When the man grabs Blooey around the neck, Red steps in and is challenged to a duel. Noting a junkman passing by, Red stops him and checks the wagon for weapons of some kind. Finding two sabres, a duel insues, with Red winning. The junkman arrives at a house where the man who fought the duel resides, and we discover the men are Nazi spies, who then go out and attempt to kill our trio.
Genre adventure
Script Ted Udall
Pencils Joe Gallagher (signed)
Inks Joe Gallagher (signed)
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich, updated 8/04.
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

13 page The Flash story "The City on Wheels"

Characters The Flash [Jay Garrick]; Joan Williams; John Bennett; Molly Bennett; Billy "Knuckles" O'Grady; Nicki Renaldi (villain); Big Ben Dudley (villain).
Synopsis The city's subway system becomes the stage for four tense people, each fighting time and wanting to achieve turning points in their lives. The Flash and Joan decide to help all four achieve their goals.
Genre superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox (signed)
Pencils Lou Ferstadt [signed as E. E. Hibbard]
Inks Lou Ferstadt [signed as E.E. Hibbard]
Notes Art credit by Jerry Bails & Craig Delich, updated 8/04.
Reprinted In Comic Cavalcade Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

1 page Superman text article "Superman by George Lowther"

Characters Superman
Genre book review; superhero
Letters typeset
Notes May be out of sequence. NOT found in the Archives edition.