Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #25
Published August 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Ed Cronin ?

Cover Details

Characters The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bozo the Robot [Hugh Hazzard](inset); Espionage (inset); The Jester [Charles Lane](inset); Midnight [Dave Clark](inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Gill Fox
Inks Gill Fox

9 page The Ray story "Mitch Mouldin"

Characters The Ray [Happy Terrill]; Bud; Mitch Mouldin
Genre superhero
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine

1 page Archie O'Toole story "The Budget is Balanced"

Characters Archie O'Toole
Genre humor; kid
Script John Devlin
Pencils John Devlin
Inks John Devlin

5 page Midnight story "Liver-Lip McGaw"

Characters Midnight [Dave Clark]; Doc Wackey; Gabby
Genre superhero; adventure
Script Jack Cole (signed)
Pencils Jack Cole (signed)
Inks Jack Cole (signed)
Letters Jack Cole

6 page Wings Wendall story "Captain Krawl"

Characters Wings Wendall; Spinner Benson; Captain Krawl
Genre aviation
Script Vernon Henkel (signed)
Pencils Vernon Henkel (signed)
Inks Vernon Henkel (signed)
Notes Wears costume in this story

5 page Invisible Justice story "A Hazy Terror of the Glens"

Characters Kent Thurston; Phineas Barr; John Thorp; Joan Thorp; Tom Slade
Genre superhero
Script Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Pencils Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)
Inks Art Pinajian [as Art Gordon] (signed)

6 page The Jester story "Sabotage at the Navy Yard"

Characters The Jester [Charles Lane]; Mulligan
Genre superhero
Script Paul Gustavson ?
Pencils Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inks Paul Gustavson (signed)
Notes People often assume Gustavson wrote all of his material, and this is not so according to Jerry Bails and the Who's Who. Paul often wrote his filler strips, rarely, if ever, anything else, thus I have added a ? behind his writer credit (added by Craig Delich 2010-9-11).

6 page Espionage Starring Black X story "Basil's Gang"

Characters Black X; Batu; Colonel Atwater
Genre spy
Pencils Witmer Williams [as Will Erwin] (signed)
Inks Witmer Williams [as Will Erwin] (signed)

6 page Rookie Rankin story "First Night"

Characters Rookie Rankin (introduction); Ma Rankin; Sgt. Burns; Nightstick Kane; Jimmy
Genre detective
Pencils Arthur F. Peddy [as Kenneth Julian] (signed)
Inks Arthur F. Peddy [as Kenneth Julian] (signed)

1 page Wun Cloo filler

Characters Wun Choo
Genre humor; detective
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Letters Jack Cole

5 page Wildfire story "Origin of Wildfire"

Characters Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin); Frank Vance (Carol's father, death); Marie (Carol's maid); Lord of Fire; Mr. and Mrs. John Martin; Senator Raymond; Heinrich (villain); Dolph (villain); Green Masked Bund (villains);
Synopsis Young Carol Martin is given wondrous powers by the Lord of Fire, which she uses to combat the un-American activities of a group which has kidnapped a famed U.S. Senator, trying to get him to admit to the newspapers that America will not come to the aid of other democracies.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Turner (signed)
Pencils Jim Mooney (signed)
Inks Jim Mooney (signed)
Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #82 (2010) [reprinted in B/W in this format]

2 page Jimmy Christian text story "The Pall of Terror"

Characters Jimmy Christian
Genre adventure
Script Robert M. Hyatt
Letters typeset

6 page Purple Trio story

Characters Purple Trio: [Warren, Rocky, Tiny]
Genre adventure
Script S. M. Iger [as S. M. Regi] (signed)
Pencils Alex Blum
Inks Alex Blum

7 page Bozo the Robot story "The Clown"

Characters Bozo the Robot [Hugh Hazzard]; Clive Dow; The Clown (villain)
Genre science fiction
Script George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed)
Pencils George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed)
Inks George Brenner [as Wayne Reid] (signed)