Issue Details

Issue	#4
Published	November 1941
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Will Eisner

Cover Details

Genre	adventure; war
Pencils	Chuck Cuidera
Inks	Chuck Cuidera

11 page Blackhawk story "Desert Death"

Characters	Black Tigress [Edda Heimat] (first appearance; villain; death)
Genre	adventure; war
Script	Will Eisner?
Pencils	Chuck Cuidera
Inks	Chuck Cuidera
Notes	title from cover; story includes 1-pg. map of Blackhawk Island

6 page Blue Tracer story "Trap For the Blue Tracer"

Characters	Nada (first appearance; villain)
Genre	war; aviation
Script	Fred Guardineer
Pencils	Fred Guardineer
Inks	Fred Guardineer
Notes	story includes blueprints of Blue Tracer

6 page Loops and Banks story "Saving the Columbia"

Genre	aviation
Script	Bob Powell
Pencils	Bob Powell (Bud Ernest)
Inks	Bob Powell

4 page Shot and Shell story "Two Freaks and the Greeks"

Genre	aviation
Script	Klaus Nordling
Pencils	Klaus Nordling
Inks	Klaus Nordling

5 page Miss America story "The Bandleader Spy"

Genre	superhero
Notes	Miss America gets her costume; Joan Dale joins the FBI

8 page Yankee Eagle story "The Fiddler and the Ape"

Genre	adventure
Pencils	John Stewart
Inks	John Stewart

6 page Death Patrol story "The Five-Point Invasion of Britain"

Characters	Butch (death); Chief Chuck-a-Lug (first appearance; joins the Death Patrol)
Genre	war; aviation; humor
Script	Dave Berg
Pencils	Dave Berg
Inks	Dave Berg

1 page Sabotage story

Genre	Gags
Script	Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Pencils	Tex Blaisdell; Lake French
Inks	Tex Blaisdell; Lake French

6 page H.M.S. Barracuda story "The Plot to Sink the Barracuda"

Characters	Skiff Wilkins (first appearance; only appearance); Heinrich Himmler (villain)
Pencils	Ed Wexler?
Inks	Ed Wexler?

2 page text story "No Greater Love"

Script	Tex Blaisdell
Letters	typeset
Notes	true story; Bravery Award

9 page Secret War News story "Bismarck Sunk"

Genre	war; true
Script	Al McWilliams
Pencils	Al McWilliams
Inks	Al McWilliams
Notes	true story of the sinking of the Bismarck