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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published September 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Editing Harry Shorten

Cover Details

Pencils Edd Ashe
Inks Edd Ashe

13 page Wizard story "Roy the Super-Boy"

Characters Roy the Super-Boy (Intro; Origin); John Howard (Intro; Death); James Reagan; Mayor Beadle (Villain; Intro); Boss Schultz (Villain; Intro; Death)
Synopsis Wizard becomes a newspaper publisher.
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Edd Ashe
Inks Edd Ashe

7 page Firefly story "Origin of the Firefly"

Characters The Firefly [Harley Hudson] (Intro, Origin); Dr. Dread (Villain; Intro; called "The Professor); Selig (Villain; Intro); monsters (Villain; Intro); Joan Burton (Intro)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Bob Wood
Inks Bob Wood

6 page Galahad story "The Danish-Irish Attack"

Characters King of Pellinore (Intro); The Irish King (Villain; Intro); The Danish King (Villain; Intro)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Lin Streeter
Inks Lin Streeter

6 page Shanghai Sheridan story "Ma-Ma Mosquito"

Characters Madame Chao Yu-Tang (Intro); The Japanese (Villain)
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick
Notes last appearance

1 page text story "Lariat Law"

Script The Trail Boss
Letters typeset

6 page Streak Chandler story "Escape On Io"

Characters Quantus (Villain); Lura (Villain)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils William Wills
Inks William Wills
Notes last appearance

6 page Wings Johnson story "The Camouflaged Air Base"

Characters The Nazis (Villain)
Script Joe Blair
Pencils Ed Smalle
Inks Ed Smalle

6 page Dick Storm story "In India (Part 2)"

Characters Jessups (Guest Star); Margie Conway (Guest Star); Ah Ming (Villain); cannibals (Villain; Intro)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Notes last appearance

6 page Bob Phantom story "The Mystery of the Kidnapped Policemen"

Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Gerry Thorpe
Inks Gerry Thorpe

6 page Kardak story "The Master Brahmins: Part 3"

Characters Master of the Valley of Death (Villain; Intro)
Script Harry Shorten
Pencils Bernard Klein
Inks Bernard Klein