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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published January 1942
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 "The Vial of Death"

Characters Prof. Hammel (first appearance; death); Elsa Hammel (first appearance; death)
Genre adventure; war
Script Dick French
Pencils Chuck Cuidera
Inks Chuck Cuidera

6 page Blue Tracer story "To Kill a Commander"

Genre war; aviation
Script Fred Guardineer
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer

6 page Loops and Banks story "The Invasion of Iceland"

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

5 page Miss America story "The Crime School"

Genre superhero
Script Ed Wexler?
Pencils Ed Wexler?
Inks Ed Wexler?

4 page Shot and Shell story "Clothes Make the Men"

Genre aviation
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

8 page Yankee Eagle story "The Trap For Jerry Noble"

Genre adventure
Pencils John Stewart
Inks John Stewart

6 page Death Patrol story "The Painted Lady Patrol"

Characters Boris (first appearance; joins the Death Patrol); Gramps (appears to die, but returns in #12); Adolf Hitler (villain)
Genre war; aviation; humor
Script Dave Berg
Pencils Dave Berg
Inks Dave Berg

1 page Diary of a Draftee story "Potato's Revenge"

Genre Gags
Script Tex Blaisdell
Pencils Tex Blaisdell
Inks Tex Blaisdell
Notes last appearance

6 page Sniper story "The Fiend of the Wilhelmstrasse"

Characters Hans Kronitz (villain; death)
Genre war; adventure
Script Ted Udall
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

2 page text story "The Avenger"

Letters typeset

9 page Secret War News story "Who Is Monsieur X?"

Genre war; true
Script Al McWilliams
Pencils Al McWilliams
Inks Al McWilliams
Notes true story