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Issue Details

Issue #87
Published January 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes First Jack Schiff issue.

Cover Details

Characters Johnny Quick
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Notes First Jack Schiff issue.

13 page Green Arrow story "Case of the Confident Crooks"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Jagin; Arrowplane (car).
Genre superhero
Pencils Cliff Young (signed)
Inks Steve Brodie (signed)
Notes Speedy has yellow hat and red hair. Green Arrow clamps an Arrow lamp on to the pack of a crook so he can follow him. Also uses magnesium flare arrows. First trick arrow?

10 page Doctor Fate story "The Mystery of Room 406"

Characters Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; Dr. Marsh; John Cornelius; V: The Frog.
Synopsis When every patient housed in Room 406 of the hospital dies, Dr. Kent Nelson decides the only way to find out what has happened is to be admitted as a patient in that room himself!
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 12-10-07.
Reprinted in Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives (DC, 2007 series) #1

Half page Roses Are Red filler

Genre humor

6 page Radio Squad story "The Case of Little Sir Echo"

Characters Radio Squad: Sandy Keene & Larry Trent; Sgt Connolly; Ventrillo and Mickey.
Synopsis A ventriloquist fakes police calls in Sgt. Connolly's voice in order to distract the police from his crimes.
Genre detective
Script Joe Samachson?
Pencils Cliff Young?
Inks Cliff Young?
Notes Art credits by Craig Delich. Writer id by Bob Hughes 8/06.

10 page Aquaman story "Ark of the Anceints"

Characters Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Atlantis; V: Pegleg, Vulture, and Runt.
Synopsis In flashback, the scientist Milo saves the people of Atlantis by building a giant bell-jar in which they can live underwater. When the Atlanteans venture to the surface for a visit they are captured by three criminals.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Greene
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve

2 page text story "A Kind of Hero"

Genre adventure
Script Will Ludlow (signed)
Letters typeset

Half page Dizzy Data filler

Genre humor
Script George Papp
Pencils George Papp (signed)
Inks George Papp (signed)

8 page Johnny Quick story "The Luck of Jabez Ritcer"

Characters Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; Jabez Riker.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.)
Inks Cliff Young (signed)

10 page Spectre story "Crimes That Bloom in Spring, Tra La"

Characters Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Percival Popp; V: Bullfrog Ames.
Synopsis Gangster Bullfrog Ames retires to the country to grow flowers......evil flowers.
Genre superhero; occult
Script Gardner F. Fox?
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Notes Writer id by Bob Hughes 8/06.