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Issue Details

Issue #78
Published April 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Green Arrow; Speedy.
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp (signed)
Inks George Papp (signed)

13 page Green Arrow story "The Black Raider"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Black Raider (boat); V: Captain Kilgore; Johnny James; Arrowcraft (boat).
Synopsis Green Arrow battles pirates on the high seas.
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp (signed)
Inks George Papp (signed)

Half page Shorty filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

10 page Doctor Fate story "The Wax Museum Killers"

Characters Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; V: Goliath; Jesse James; Nero; Captain Kidd; Inza Carmer.
Synopsis Doctor Fate must face the prospect of battling wax figures of history's greatest villains that have come to life.
Genre occult; superhero
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Letters Howard Sherman
Notes Letterer credit and modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 12-05-07.
Reprinted in Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1

6 page Radio Squad story "Case of the Phantom Fugitive"

Characters Radio Squad: Larry Trent & Sandy Keene; Lois Hart; Joe Leeds.
Synopsis A banker's daughter is kidnapped and her boyfriend is the prime suspect.
Genre detective
Pencils Cliff Young
Inks Cliff Young
Notes Credits by Craig Delich.

10 page Aquaman story "The Sargasso Sea"

Characters Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; V: Master Sargasso.
Genre superhero
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris

2 page text story "Strange Acquaintance"

Genre adventure
Script Norman Goss (signed)
Letters typeset

1 page Clancy the Cop filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

8 page Johnny Quick story "Death's Dividends"

Characters Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; V: Dr. Clever; Tubby Watts; A.V. Keith; Silky Smith; Cannonball Carter.
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin [signed as Mort Morton, Jr.]
Inks Mort Meskin [signed as Mort Morton, Jr.]

1 page Chief Hot Foot filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page Private Pete filler

Genre military humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

10 page Spectre story "The Magic Crimes"

Characters The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; V: The Glowing One; Percival Popp; Kati Lugi.
Synopsis Kati Lugi hires Popp to help with his magic act, but a spook called the Glowing One keeps interupting and robbing the audience.....or is it Popp that's doing the robbing?
Genre superhero; occult
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)