Issue Details

Issue	#12
Published	July 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

8 page Blue Beetle story "Bomb Kills Hundreds In Midtown"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; The Sylvanian Consul Secretary (villain, introduction)
Pencils	Charles Nicholas
Inks	Charles Nicholas

3 page Wing Turner story "The Giant Airplane Blimp"

Characters	Wing Turner; the Nazis (villains)
Genre	aviation; adventure
Pencils	George Tuska ? [as Floyd Kelly] (signed)
Inks	George Tuska [as Floyd Kelly] (signed)

8 page Rex Dexter story "The Crow From Space"

Characters	Rex Dexter; Jan (introduction); Yna (introduction); The Hunter (villain, introduction, death)
Genre	science fiction
Script	Dick Briefer
Pencils	Dick Briefer
Inks	Dick Briefer

8 page The Green Mask story "The Federal Reserve Robbery"

Characters	The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Voss (villain, introduction); Lovensky (villain, introduction); Boris (villain, introduction); Hans (villain, introduction); un-named spies (villains, introduction)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Walter Frehm
Inks	Walter Frehm

2 page Billy Bounce story "Calling all cars!"

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

6 page Chen Chang story "Demons of Doom"

Characters	Chen Chang (villain); River Lily (villain)
Genre	occult
Pencils	Munson Paddock [as Cecilia Munson] (signed)
Inks	Munson Paddock [as Cecilia Munson] (signed)

2 page text story "Twentieth Century Death Ray"

Genre	adventure
Script	B. A. Martin (signed)
Letters	typeset

5 page Lt. Drake story "The Stuffed Fish Smugglers"

Characters	Lt. Drake
Genre	detective
Pencils	Klaus Nordling ?
Inks	Klaus Nordling ?

5 page The Moth story "The Strange Case of the Terror Castle Grave Robberies"

Characters	The Moth; The Doc (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis	The Doc sends some of his hoodlums into a cemetery looking for a disease-free body into which he plans to transplant a brain, thus allowing him to have the power of God to create life.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jim Mooney
Inks	Jim Mooney
Notes	This is the last appearance for this character, who is called "Moth Man" on the cover. The plot of this story just had to have been taken from Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein." NOTE: The strip carries the by-line of "Norman Kingsley", which may have been an editorial alteration of the by-line "Norton Kingsley", which was the pen-name of Chuck A. Winter, who drew The Lynx for Fox in 1941. The editors may have just stuck this by-line on the strip [not unusual in those days]. The Men of Mystery reprint ID's Pierce Rice with the art, but Rice only penciled the strip circa 1941, while Mooney did full art from 1940 into 1941. This information added by Craig Delich 2010-6-1.
Reprinted	in Men of Mystery (AC, 1999 series) #81 (2010)

2 page Hemlock Shomes story "Gee! Shomes, do you hear that?"

Characters	Hemlock Shomes
Genre	humor
Script	Fred Schwab
Pencils	Fred Schwab
Inks	Fred Schwab
Letters	Fred Schwab

6 page D-13 story "Attack In the South Atlantic"

Characters	D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Susan Florenz (introduction); Rico (introduction); Diego (introduction); the Nazis (villains)
Genre	adventure
Script	Bob Powell
Pencils	Bob Powell
Inks	Bob Powell

3 page Captain Savage story "Six Crates For Singapore"

Characters	Captain Savage
Genre	adventure
Pencils	Charles A. Winter ?
Inks	Charles A. Winter ?

4 page Zanzibar story "Zombies of the Bayou"

Characters	Zanzibar; The Zombie Master (villain, introduction)
Genre	occult; adventure
Pencils	George Tuska
Inks	George Tuska