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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published February 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Ken Crossen
Notes Layouts for this issue are by Al Jetter. Most information added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.

Cover Details - "Forward To Victory In 1945"

Characters The Green Lama
Genre occult; superhero
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Letters typeset
Notes Layouts for this issue are by Al Jetter. Most information added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

1 page Green Lama foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Green Lama Contents"

Characters The Green Lama
Synopsis Contents page featuring illo of the Green Lama, features, story titles and brief synopses of each story.
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

12 page The Green Lama story "Willie the Sleeper"

Characters The Green Lama [Jethro Dumont]; Tsarong; Lieutenant Caraway; Willie the Sleeper (villain, introduction)
Synopsis Willie, the President of the Chamber of Criminal Commerce offers a grand prize of $10,000 to anyone who sends them the best idea for a successful crime wave in the postwar underworld.
Genre occult; superhero
Script Ken Crossen (signed as Richard Foster]
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy
Letters Rhoda Lewis (signed)
Notes The last 1/3 of the last page of the story is an illustrated ad for the Green Lama Club. Letterer credit, synopsis and most other info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

1 page War Bonds advertisement "Smith? Kelly? Cohen? Svoboda?"

Synopsis Illustrated ad encouraging Americans to join the war effort and buy War Bonds.
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

8 page The Boy Champions story "A Genius in the Family"

Characters The Boy Champions [Tuffy; Mickey; Wellington Smith]; Horace Higginbottom (villain); Higginbottom's gang (villain)
Synopsis Tuffy writes what he thinks is a masterpiece and sees a man about publishing it, which he agrees to do. But Tuffy is not aware the man plans to use the publishing of the book as a cover for a crime!
Genre superhero
Script Joseph Greene (signed)
Pencils Al Bare (signed)
Inks Al Bare (signed)
Letters Rhoda Lewis (signed)
Notes Credits, synopsis and all other info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

2 page text story "Murder on Water"

Characters Inspector McGabe; Professor Sam Hoyle; Mrs. Sterling; John Gardner (villain)
Synopsis Inspector McCabe asks Professor Hoyle help him solve the murder of James Sterling, a man strangled to death on a life raft in the water while half a dozen people watched.
Genre crime
Script Joseph Greene (signed)
Pencils ? (spot illustration)
Inks ? (spot illustration)
Letters typeset
Notes Sequence and all info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

7 page Angus Mac Erc story "Youth is a Curse"

Characters Angus Mac Erc; Time; Mr. Magdelene; Chumley Sister Maudlin; Paracelsus.
Synopsis At a library. Mac Erc runs into a student of the dark arts who plans to release one Paracelsus from his imprisonment in a tree for the last few centuries.
Genre adventure
Script Bruce Elliott (signed)
Pencils Perry Williams (signed)
Inks Perry Williams (signed)
Letters Rhoda Lewis (signed)
Notes The story sometimes refers to the character's name as Mc Erc. Credits and all info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)

2 page Pop Flys story

Characters Mike McTigg; Joe Clutch (villain)
Synopsis Mike gets nervous before his big fight, but his pop is equally scared of the fight he has waiting at home: with his wife!
Genre sports
Script Al Liedermann (signed as L)
Pencils Al Liedermann (signed as L)
Inks Al Liedermann (signed as L)
Letters Al Liedermann
Notes Credits and all info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted In Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008).

7 page Rick Masters story "Censor Trouble"

Characters Rick Masters; Twin Eagle; F. X. MacIntyre (death); Peeves (villain, death); Big Casino (villain, death); Little Casino (villain, death)
Synopsis When Rick Masters and his sidekick set up their commercial air operations, they thought it would be smooth sailing. And it would have been, except for a dictionary, a dying man, a stolen safe and the power of static electricity.
Genre adventure; aviation
Script Walter Gardner (signed)
Pencils Mort Lawrence (signed)
Inks Mort Lawrence (signed)
Letters Rhoda Lewis (signed)
Notes Credits and all info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted In Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008).

7 page Lieutenant Hercules story "It Pays to Advertise"

Characters Lieutenant Hercules [Wilbur Klutz]; Merlin; Villains: un-named gang.
Synopsis Wilbur decides that the job of bookkeeper is beneath the dignity of a superhero, so he decides to use his super powers to cash in.
Genre superhero
Script Horace L. Gold (signed as H. L. Gold)
Pencils Irving Tirman?
Inks Irving Tirman?
Letters Rhoda Lewis (signed)
Notes Credits and all info added by Craig Delich 10-5-08.
Reprinted in Green Lama Featuring the Art of Mac Raboy (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)