Issue Details

Issue	#39
Published	January 1943
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Gilbert Fox

Cover Details

Characters	Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Black X [insert]
Genre	superhero; adventure
Pencils	Reed Crandall
Inks	Reed Crandall

9 page Midnight story "The Absent Minded Corpse!"

Characters	Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby; Sam Benson; Dan Benson
Synopsis	Sam and Dan are twins. One of them shoots the other, but he has amnesia, so who's alive and who's dead?
Genre	superhero; adventure
Script	Jack Cole ?
Pencils	Jack Cole ?
Inks	Jack Cole ?

8 page Yankee Eagle story "Bataan"

Characters	Yankee Eagle; Lt. Graymore
Genre	adventure
Pencils	Al Gabriele
Inks	Al Gabriele

1 page Archie O'Toole story "Princess Fatima"

Genre	humor; kid
Script	Bernard Dibble
Pencils	Bernard Dibble
Inks	Bernard Dibble

5 page Bozo the Robot story "Zeke Punkinhed"

Characters	Bozo the Robot; Zeke Punkinhed; Killer McSnarley
Genre	science fiction
Script	George Brenner
Pencils	George Brenner (signed)
Inks	George Brenner

8 page Rookie Rankin story "The Borgen Art Gallery"

Characters	Rookie Rankin; Dr. Schoor
Genre	detective
Pencils	Rudy Palais ?
Inks	Rudy Palais ?

6 page Ray story "Oscar Slott"

Characters	Ray; Bud; Carol Hines; Oscar Slott; Mr. Hines
Synopsis	When Happy Terril's editor's daughter is kidnapped by Nazi's, he's forced to fire Terril and cover up Nazi sabotage.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Rudy Palais
Inks	Rudy Palais

8 page Espionage Starring Black X story "The Story of a Blind Man Who Could See"

Characters	Black X; Batu; Herr Dumm; Dr. Christian
Genre	spy

2 page Jimmy Christian text story "Rabbits are Dynamite"

Genre	adventure
Script	?
Letters	typeset

1 page Wun Cloo story

Genre	humor; detective
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole

7 page Marksman story "The Gold Shipment"

Characters	Marksman; Vorka
Genre	war; adventure
Script	Fred Guardineer
Pencils	Fred Guardineer [as Fred]
Inks	Fred Guardineer

7 page Jester story "AH-H-H-H-H-C-H-W-W-W-W-W-----"

Characters	Jester; McGinty; Oscar Oople
Genre	superhero
Script	Paul Gustavson
Pencils	Paul Gustavson
Inks	Paul Gustavson