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Issue Details

Issue #53
Published July 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing John F. Byrne (Editor)
Notes The page count [60 pages] is correct. There are four sheets in the front "half" of the book that do not wrap around the rear "half."

Cover Details - "Slaves of the Blood Moon"

Genre jungle
Pencils Nick Viscardi
Inks Nick Viscardi
Notes The page count [60 pages] is correct. There are four sheets in the front "half" of the book that do not wrap around the rear "half."

12 page Sheena story Slaves of the Blood Moon ["The monstrosity of a prehistoric age emerges from ..."]

Characters Bob; Tudo; Chim; Old Brazo
Genre jungle
Script ? [as W. Morgan Thomas]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks Ann Brewster?
Notes The story title is taken from the cover.

8 page ZX-5 Spies In Action story "The famed underground sewers of Paris... The Gestapo..."

Characters Herr Obergauleiter; Schwenke; Pierre Dulerc [ZX-5]; Jacques
Genre spies
Script ? [as Major Thorpe]
Pencils Mort Leav

6 page The Hawk story "For the sea is deep and its perils many.."

Characters Lady Lorna; Caleb; Jeremy
Genre period
Script ? [as Willis Rensie]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks ? [shop]

6 page Stuart Taylor story "Carried by the mysterious power of their remote..."

Characters Laura; Dr. Hayward; Bluebeard; Mago; Anne
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Curt Davis]
Pencils Robert Webb?
Inks Lee Ames?

6 page Midnight The Wild Black Stallion story "Piercing the nocturnal silence of the little western..."

Characters Rick; John Blaine
Genre western
Script ? [as West Erner]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks ? [shop]

6 page Inspector Dayton story "Burnt Alive"

Characters John Maynor; Adams the Coroner; Edwina Adams; Dan Maynor; Creep; Vesty
Genre Detective
Script ? [as George Thatcher]
Pencils Rafael Astarita
Inks Rafael Astarita

2 page text story "The Bell Rings Once"

Script George Tracy

10 page The Ghost Gallery story "When Olga Barova, world famous dancer, plunged to..."

Characters Olga Barova; Moran; Arthur Johnstone; Tony; Allister; Guiseppe; Gordon McKane; Sonya
Genre mystery
Script ? [as Drew Murdoch]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks ? [shop]