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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published November 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing John F. Byrne (Editor); S. M. Iger (Art Director)
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 - "Arena of the Beasts"

Genre jungle
Pencils Art Saaf
Inks Art Saaf
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 "The Arena of Doom"

Characters Bob; Chim; N'Dora
Genre jungle
Script ? [as W. Morgan Thomas]
Pencils Robert Webb
Inks ? [shop]
Notes The story actually has a title and it is slightly different from the one on the cover.

8 page ZX-5 Spies In Action story "Berlin, Germany...an outwardly peaceful scene...a one-armed..."

Characters Karl Stolz
Genre spy
Script ? [as Major Thorpe]
Pencils Nina Albright; Arnold Hicks
Inks Arnold Hicks?; shop

6 page The Hawk story "Aboard the good ship Lady Scarlett..."

Characters Caleb; Jeremy; Toola; Fluth
Genre period
Script ? [as Willis B. Rensie]
Pencils Robert Webb; John Cassone? [on girls]
Inks ? [shop]

6 page Stuart Taylor story "Rain, rain!" "Nothing to do.. No place new..."

Characters Laura; Dr. Hayward; Lord Wallace; Robert the Bruce; Edward the First
Genre science fiction
Script ? [as Curt Davis]
Pencils Arthur Peddy?
Inks ? [shop]

6 page Midnight The Wild Black Stallion story "On the far green graze of Mustang Mesa..."

Genre western
Script ? [as West Erner]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum; ?
Notes Shop specialists on females and animals [Cassone? and Case?].

6 page Inspector Dayton story "A wealthy oil man calls his young secretary"

Characters Simmons; Mr. Larsen; Bob Hubson; Linda Larsen; Creep
Genre detective
Script ? [as George Thatcher]
Pencils Arnold Hicks
Inks ? [shop]

2 page text story Mine "Killers" Message

Genre war
Script Tom Alexander

10 page Ghost Gallery story "Amazing and weird as it seems, this is..."

Characters Montague Harris; Orchid Harris
Genre mystery
Script ? [as Drew Murdoch]
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks ? [shop]