Issue Details

Issue	#5
Published	November 1940
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	S. M. Iger

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine

7 page Hercules story "Murder On the Assembly Line"

Characters	V: Wolf Stead (I; no actual appearance); I: Judd Haskin
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Dan Zolnerowich
Inks	Dan Zolnerowich

5 page Betty Bates story "Murder of a Peddler"

Characters	V: Jerry Corona (I)
Script	Bob Powell?
Pencils	Nick Cardy
Inks	Nick Cardy

7 page Strange Twins, The story "The Emerald of Egypt"

Characters	I: Anitra, her father, and her fiance
Genre	adventure
Script	S. M. Iger
Pencils	Alex Blum
Inks	Alex Blum

6 page Bob and Swab story "The Panama Canal Incident"

Genre	humor; adventure
Script	Klaus Nordling
Pencils	Klaus Nordling
Inks	Klaus Nordling

6 page G-5 Super Agent story "Assignment: Quanalla"

Characters	I: Gen. Gorzel, Jean Carrolla
Genre	spy
Pencils	Charles Sultan
Inks	Charles Sultan

6 page Red Bee story "Flatboat No. 96"

Characters	V: Number 26 and other gangsters (I for all); Red Bee minus his mask on splash panel
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Charles Nicholas?
Inks	Charles Nicholas?

5 page Old Witch story "The House on the Moors"

Genre	occult
Pencils	John Celardo
Inks	John Celardo

5 page Blaze Barton story "Voyage To Mars"

Characters	V: The Martians and their king (I for all)
Genre	science fiction
Pencils	Maurice Gutwirth?
Inks	Maurice Gutwirth?

2 page text story "Ghosts of the Unborn To-Morrow"

Script	Toni Blum (Toni Boone)
Letters	Typeset

6 page Jack and Jill story "Wild Goose Chase With a Real Goose"

Characters	I: Suli (a cook); V: A Chinese crimelord (I)
Genre	detective
Pencils	John Lindermayer?
Inks	John Lindermayer?

2 page Tommy Tinkle story "The Invisibility Cloak"

Characters	V: Sniff
Genre	humor
Pencils	Arthur Beeman?
Inks	Arthur Beeman?

7 page Neon the Unknown story "In a Metropolis of Madmen"

Characters	V: Foreign agents (I for all)
Genre	superhero
Script	S. M. Iger
Pencils	Alex Blum?
Inks	Alex Blum?