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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published Winter 1941-1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters Seven Soldiers of Victory: Vigilante; Green Arrow; Star-Spangled Kid; Shining Knight; Speedy; Crimson Avenger.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Letters typeset
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

5 page Seven Soldiers of Victory story "Blueprint for Crime (Chapter 1)"

Characters Seven Soldiers of Victory: Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Vigilante [Greg Saunders]]; Villains: the Hand, Dummy, Red Dragon, Big Caesar, Professor Merlin, Needle.
Synopsis The nefarious Hand, believing that he has only one month to live, organizes a group of master criminals [the "fingers" of his hand] to commit crimes, and challenges a newly organized band of heroes to the greatest criminal chase the world has ever seen.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Notes Art credit by Craig Delich 10/04. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-18-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

9 page The Green Arrow story "Death Valley (Chapter 2)"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Cactus Mike; Villains: Professor Merlin, the Hand, Needle (cameo).
Synopsis Green Arrow and Speedy head to Death Valley, California to stop Professor Merlin from stealing gold stockpiled by an old prospector.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils George Papp (signed as Geo. Papp))
Inks George Papp (signed as Geo. Papp)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-18-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

9 page The Star-Spangled Kid story "[Peril in Panama] (Chapter 3)"

Characters The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Mrs. Pemberton; Claude Brighton; Villains: the Needle, the Hand, Big Caesar.
Synopsis The Kid and Stripesy head for the Panama Canal Zone to prevent the Needle from stealing a ray-gun weapon from its inventor.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Hal Sherman (signed)
Inks Hal Sherman (signed)
Notes The chapter title may have been intended to be "Blueprint for Banditry," as those words are in bold in the intro paragraph. The story title used here comes from the Archives reprint. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-18-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

9 page The Crimson Avenger story "Blackout over Broadway (Chapter 4)"

Characters The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; Villains: Big Caesar, the Hand, Red Dragon (cameo).
Synopsis The Crimson and Wing must prevent Big Ceasar from carrying out mass robberies in Times Square under the cover of darkness.
Genre Superhero
Script Jack Lehti (signed)
Pencils Jack Lehti (signed)
Inks Jack Lehti (signed)
Notes Writer credit by Craig Delich 10/04. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-18-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

9 page The Shining Knight story "[The Red Dragon] (Chapter 5)"

Characters The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Winged Victory; Chief Wamona [D]; Villains: Red Dragon, Brom, the Hand, Dummy [cameo].
Synopsis The Shining Knight travels to the Valley of Wamona to prevent the Red Dragon from stealing a large supply of pitchblend [radium] from the local Indians living there.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger?
Pencils Creig Flessel
Inks Creig Flessel
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-18-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

9 page The Vigilante story "The Stone People (Chapter 6)"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; Billy Gunn; Villains: the Dummy, the Hand.
Synopsis The Western Waddy travels to the glamor and glitz of Hollywood to foil the evil plan of the Dummy to kidnap some important people, pretend to turn them to stone, then try to extort money from people before "restoring" them back to life.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.)
Inks Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-18-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

5 page Seven Soldiers of Victory story "Blueprint for Crime (Chapter 7)"

Characters Seven Soldiers of Victory:[Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; V: the Hand [D].
Synopsis Seeing that his plot has failed against the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the Hand decides to take them all on at his own home. But when he hears from the doctor that his medical condition can be cured and that he won't die, the Hand's vanity gets the better of him and decides to fight anyway.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Notes Art credit by Craig Delich, October 2004. The Hand returns as The Iron Hand in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #100. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-18-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1.

2 page King Kale filler

Characters King Kale
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page Clancy the Cop filler

Characters Clancey
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page text story "Set a Thief..."

Genre crime
Script Eric Carter (Jerry Siegel?)[signed]
Letters typeset