Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	May 1940
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	?

Cover Details

1 page Superform Belt advertisement "You Can't Call My Dad The Blimp Man"

Notes

inside front cover

19 page Strongman story "Illegal Raider Ship"

Characters	Strongman [Percy Van Norton] (first appearance; origin)
Script	Scotty Walters

5 page Buck Burke story "This is the Best Crew of Natives I ever Handled, JoJo"

Characters	Buck Burke (first appearance)
Script	Jack Stark

6 page Secret Agent Z-2 story "I'm on Another Clue Sir"

Characters	Z-2 (first appearance)
Script	Douglas

5 page Solar Legion story "Terror Stalks the Trail of the Interplanetary..."

Characters	Solar Legion (first appearance); Adam Starr (first appearance); Black Michael (first appearance)
Script	Jack Kirby
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Jack Kirby
Notes	Year 2140
Reprinted	in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #1; in Golden-Age Greats (AC, 1998 series) #12

2 page Don Matson text story "Danger Dive"

Characters	Don Matson (first appearance)
Letters	typeset
Notes	2 x 1/3 page illustrations

5 page Blue Streak story "Sigmund Ruber Missing"

Characters	Blue Streak [Don Vin] (first appearance); Tago (first appearance)
Script	Lowry Bishop

4 page The Flying Trio story "Look! That wild Chinaman power dived..."

Characters	Flying Trio (first appearance); Sing Low (first appearance); Ray (first appearance); Mac (first appearance)
Notes	Chinese plays good guy starring role along with two caucasian's in 1940!

5 page Jane Drake story "Jane, You've got to stop this infernal meddling..."

Characters	Jane Drake (first appearance); Jerry King (first appearance)
Script	Matt Robertson

3 page Alec story "Yang Threatens World"

Characters	Yang (first appearance)
Script	Rudolph

10 page Shangra story "We've had engine trouble with our plane sir!"

Characters	Joan Joyce (first appearance); Jack Flynn (first appearance); Shangra (first appearance)
Script	Nam Chung Po