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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published May 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Simon?
Inks Joe Simon?
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #1

8 page Blue Beetle story "The Beetle and the Bombers"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; The Yellow Gang (introduction, villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils Charles Nicholas (signed)
Inks Charles Nicholas

3 page Wing Turner story "The Prince Otembi Affair: Part 1"

Characters I: Prince Otembi; V: Mahruf-Ali (I)
Genre war
Script Jack Kirby?; Joe Simon?
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #1

8 page Rex Dexter story "Invasion of Fire"

Characters Rex Dexter; Flame-Men (from Emalf, introduction, villain)
Genre science fiction
Script Dick Briefer
Pencils Dick Briefer (signed)
Inks Dick Briefer

8 page Green Mask story "The Professor's Blackmail Band"

Characters The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; The Professor (villain, introduction, death)
Genre superhero
Pencils L. Bing
Inks L. Bing

2 page Billy Bounce story "[Yip-pee-eee!"

Characters Billy Bounce
Genre humor
Script Fred Schwab?
Pencils Fred Schwab?
Inks Fred Schwab?
Letters Fred Schwab?

6 page Chen Chang story "Slaves For Slaughter"

Characters Chen Chang
Genre adventure
Pencils Pierce Rice? (byline Cecilia Munson)
Inks Charles Nicholas?

2 page text story "Death By Electrocution"

Script Martin A. Brusten (Joe Simon?)
Letters typeset

5 page Lt. Drake story "The Dope Smuggling Gamblers"

Characters Lt. Drake
Genre adventure
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

5 page Moth story "The Weather Kings"

Characters The Moth
Genre superhero

2 page Hemlock Shomes story "[I hope I can escape jury duty..."

Characters Hemlock Shomes
Genre humor
Script Fred Schwab
Pencils Fred Schwab (signed Fred)
Inks Fred Schwab
Letters Fred Schwab

8 page D-13 story "The Transport Saboteurs"

Characters D-13 [Richard Anthony]
Genre spy
Pencils ? (S.R. Powell byline but after Powell left Fox)

3 page Captain Savage story "Showdown With Sin Lee"

Characters Captain Savage; Sin Lee (Villain, death)
Genre adventure
Pencils Arturo Cazeneuve?
Inks Arturo Cazeneuve?

4 page Zanzibar story "The Vanishing Beauties of Ankara"

Characters Zanzibar; Achmed Pasha (villain, introduction)
Genre superhero
Pencils ? (as George Tuska byline only)