Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	February 1940
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Victor Fox

Cover Details

Pencils	Lou Fine
Inks	Lou Fine
Reprinted	in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #1

8 page Eagle story "Origin of the Eagle"

Characters	The Eagle [Bill Powers] (first appearance; origin); Jason (first appearance); The Purple Gang (first appearance; villains)
Pencils	Emil Gershwin?
Inks	Emil Gershwin?

12 page Electro story "The Origin of Electro"

Characters	Electro [Jim Andrews] (first appearance; origin; becomes Dynamo in next issue); Saunders (first appearance); the President's daughter (first appearance); The Gerlandians (first appearance; villains)
Pencils	Robert Webb?
Inks	Robert Webb?

7 page Cosmic Carson story "The Fang Men of Jupiter"

Characters	Cosmic Carson (first appearance); Roland (first appearance); Fang Men of Jupiter (first appearance; villains; one dies)
Pencils	George Tuska
Inks	George Tuska

8 page Perisphere Payne story "The Space Slavers"

Characters	Perisphere Payne (first appearance); Villon (first appearance; villain; death)
Pencils	? (Arnold Haney)

8 page Marga story "Origin of Marga, the Panther Woman"

Characters	Marga [the Panther Woman] (first appearance; origin; Von Dorf (first appearance; villain; death); Ted Grant (first appearance; not DC's Wildcat!)
Pencils	Emil Gershwin?
Inks	Emil Gershwin?

2 page text story "Death On the Air Waves"

Script	Rodney Weems
Letters	typeset

8 page Dr. Doom story "The Shrinking Serum"

Characters	Dr. Doom (first appearance; villain); Jan Swift (first appearance); Wanda (first appearance)
Pencils	? (Richard Crater)

8 page Navy Jones story "Origin of Navy Jones"

Characters	Navy Jones (first appearance; origin); King of a sub-sea people (first appearance); Princess Coral (first appearance); The prime minister (first appearance; villain)
Script	Bert Whitman
Pencils	Bert Whitman
Inks	Bert Whitman