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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published Summer 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)
Notes Pencil ? added by Craig Delich (Feb. 17, 2007). According to the Who's Who, Small ONLY did cover inks in 1943.

Cover Details - "The Wizard of Wisstark!"

Characters Seven Soldiers of Victory: Shining Knight; Stripesy; Star-Spangled Kid; Crimson Avenger; Green Arrow; Speedy; Vigilante; Wing; Villians: Wizards of Stanovia.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jon Small?
Inks Jon Small
Letters typeset
Notes Pencil ? added by Craig Delich (Feb. 17, 2007). According to the Who's Who, Small ONLY did cover inks in 1943.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2007).

7 page Seven Soldiers of Victory story "Wizard of Wisstark! (Chapter 1)"

Characters Seven Soldiers of Victory: Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; Wing; Wizard of Wisstark; Menzac; Villains: Wizards of Stanovia.
Synopsis When the Seven Soldiers read and hear about themselves supposedly donating their services to charity, they smell a rat. They are taken by a strange aircraft to see the Wizard Of Wisstark, actually a stage magician, who wants them to travel to Stanovia to battle real wizards, who want to prevent its inhabitants from enjoying true democracy.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Pierce Rice?
Notes Artistic credit revisions to [?] by Craig Delich (Feb. 17, 2007). According to the Who's Who, Rice did artwork on the SSoV ONLY in 1944-45. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-2-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2007).

8 page The Star-Spangled Kid story "Land of Giants! (Chapter 2)"

Characters The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan].
Synopsis The Kid and Stripesy head to the mountains to encounter the giants that the Wizard of Wisstark would like to have join him in the battle against the three wizards, but all they succeed in doing is getting moving pictures of them!
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Pierce Rice
Notes Inker revision to ? made by Craig Delich (Feb. 17, 2007). According to the Who's Who, Rice ONLY did pencils on the Star-Spangled Kid in 1943. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-2-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2007).

8 page The Green Arrow story "Wizard Archers and the Wizards! (Chapter 3)"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Villians: Wizards of Stanovia.
Synopsis The Battling Bowmen arrive in Stanovia to seek out the 3 wizards and learn of their plans, which includes retrieving the strange aircraft in the possession of the Wizard of Wisstark.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Pierce Rice
Inks Pierce Rice
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-2-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2007).

8 page The Crimson Avenger story "The Invisible Men! (Chapter 4)"

Characters The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing;
Synopsis The Crimson and Wing are on the alert for 5th Column activities within the walls of Wisstark, and very soon they are attacked by invisible opponents, who have succeeded in re-capturing the strange aircraft the three wizards seek.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Pierce Rice
Inks Pierce Rice
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-2-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2007).

8 page Vigilante story "Double Trouble! (Chapter 5)"

Characters Vigilante [Greg Saunders]; Wizard of Wisstark; Villains: Wizards of Stanovia, Wizard of Wisstark (phony).
Synopsis Vig must unravel and stop an attempt by the three wizards to replace the real Wizard of Wisstark with a look alike.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Pierce Rice
Inks Pierce Rice
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-2-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2007).

8 page The Shining Knight story "The March of the Wooden-Armored Soldiers! (Chapter 6)"

Characters Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Winged Victory; Wizard of Wisstark; Villains: Wizards of Stanovia.
Synopsis The Knight's assignment is to take on the three wizards on the field of battle, but he needs an army for that task.....and he gets one: an army bedecked in wooden armor!
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Pierce Rice
Inks Pierce Rice
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-2-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2007).

7 page Seven Soldiers of Victory story "Battle of the Wizards! (Chapter 7)"

Characters Seven Soldiers of Victory: Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Vigilante [Greg Saunders]]; Wing; Villains: Wizards of Stanovia; Wizard of Wisstark.
Synopsis The Seven Soldiers and their forces engage the Wizards of Stanovia & their legions in a fight to the finish, and defeat them by using their own tricks against them.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Pierce Rice?
Notes Artistic revisions to [?] made by Craig Delich (Feb. 17, 2007). According to the Who's Who, Rice did artwork on the SSoV ONLY in 1944-45. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-2-08.
Reprinted In Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives (DC, 2005 series) #2 (2007).

2 page text story "Smoke Screen"

Genre adventure
Script Ted Walsh (signed)
Letters typeset