Issue Details

Issue	#3
Published	December 1939
Frequency	monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Maurice Rosenfeld

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Maurice Scott
Inks	Maurice Scott

22 page Shock Gibson story "In a European capital a scene of parting takes place... 'No, JIm, I'm sorry. I can't marry you.' "

Characters	Charles Gibson [Shock] (joins Foreign Legion to track down Jim Worth); Jim Worth (Intro; son of a prominent American businessman; joins Foreign Legion to forget girl who jilted him)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Maurice Scott
Inks	Maurice Scott

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Shock Gibson Volunteers"

Script	editors
Letters	typeset
Notes	Send in the coupon and join the club

6 page Crash, Cork, and the Baron story "Our three friends are stranded at an inland village in South Africa..."

Script	Klaus Nordling
Pencils	Klaus Nordling (Fred North)
Inks	Klaus Nordling

4 page Ted Parrish story "At a Hollywood party... 'Nice party, isn't it Ted?' 'Yes, but look, our hostess seems excited!' "

Script	Bob Powell
Pencils	Bob Powell
Inks	Bob Powell

2 page text story "An Escape From Headhunters"

Script	Charles Miller
Letters	typeset

6 page Biff Bannon of the U.S. Marines story "Well, well -- the Navy's come to give me a headache my last hours on this island!"

Script	Dick Briefer
Pencils	Dick Briefer (Remington Brant)
Inks	Dick Briefer

6 page Smoke Carter story "In a blazing car ferry, a human rat is trapped!"

Script	Munson Paddock
Pencils	Munson Paddock (signed Joe E. Martin)
Inks	Munson Paddock

4 page Landor, Maker of Monsters story "Locked in his vast laboratory, Landor, brilliant mad scientist, plots the destruction..."

Characters	Landor (hideously deformed mad scintist); Anthony Torrence (hero); Marcia (his beautiful fiancée)
Pencils	Gregory Torey (?)
Inks	Gregory Torey (?)
Notes	rip-off of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA unmasking scene

4 page Texas Tyler story "Tex foils a band of desperate cattle thieves."

Script	Harry Walters
Pencils	Harry Walters
Inks	Harry Walters

1 page filler "Air Speed"

Pencils	"Ace" Shaw (signed)
Notes	Facts about planes

8 page Spike Marlin story "Modern pirates still roam the North Atlantic, and though they no longer fly..."

Pencils	George Tuska (Carl Larson)
Inks	George Tuska

promo (ad from the publisher) "Every Month in Speed Comics"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Inside-back cover house ad for Speed, showing all the main characters