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]