Issue Details

Issue	#9
Published	May 1941
Cover Price	$0.10
Pages	68
Editing	Malcolm Reiss (Editor); Gene Fawcette (Art Director)
Notes	Art credits from Nicholas Burns via the GCD Errors List (10 February 2006). Recorrected and finalized by Henry Steele, Hames Ware and JVJ (15 October 2006).

Cover Details - "The Divers of Doom"

Genre	war
Pencils	Gene Fawcette
Inks	Gene Fawcette
Letters	typeset
Notes	Art credits from Nicholas Burns via the GCD Errors List (10 February 2006). Recorrected and finalized by Henry Steele, Hames Ware and JVJ (15 October 2006).

7 page The Skull Squad story Fools For Glory] ["The Skull Squad, with the RAF in Albania..."

Characters	V: Stiletto (I)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Ace Atkins]
Pencils	Arthur Peddy
Inks	Arthur Peddy
Notes	The story title is taken from the cover blurb.

6 page Parachute Patrol story "The parachute patrol has been sent to a..."

Characters	V: Lord Manning (I)
Genre	war
Script	?
Pencils	Bob Butts?
Inks	Bob Butts?
Notes	No house-name credit appears.

6 page Jane Martin story "At a British airport a siren screams a..."

Characters	V: A doctor (I); Nazi spies (I)
Genre	war
Script	? [as F.E. Lincoln]
Pencils	Nick Viscardi
Inks	Nick Viscardi

8 page Clipper Kirk story "Guarding Britain's life line...the Atlantic sea lanes..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Cliff Debois]
Pencils	John Celardo
Inks	John Celardo

6 page Captain Derek West story "Vultures of Vengeance"

Characters	I: Rip Hollister
Genre	war
Script	? [as Captain Derek West]
Pencils	John Celardo?
Inks	John Cassone?; ?
Notes	Only vaguely resembles Celardo's art. HS & HW are more convinced than I am that he is here. I think straight Cassone is more likely. JV

2 page Wing Tips filler "The Republic 'Guardsman' is a two seater fighter..."

Genre	true
Pencils	Gene Fawcette
Inks	Gene Fawcette

2 page text story "Flying Colors"

Genre	war
Script	? [as Gordon Wayne]
Letters	typeset

8 page Suicide Smith story "Suicide Smith, in a daring attempt to learn..."

Characters	V: A Nazi commandant (I)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Capt. A.E. Carruthers]
Pencils	Al Gabriele
Inks	Al Gabriele?; Vern Henkel?
Notes	Interesting to note that GCD had "Liebeck" as the artist here. "Liebeck" being Henry's misreading of a Gabriele signature and existing nowhere else in comic book literature, this clearly indicates that the previous credits were taken from the HS index without attribution.

6 page F4 of the air intelligence story "A coded message from the head of the..."

Genre	war
Script	? [as Bill Fox]
Pencils	Al Bryant?; Jay?
Inks	Al Bryant?; Jay?

7 page The Phantom Falcons story "Once again the five Phantom Falcons, Tom Akeley,..."

Characters	I: Jeffrey [Akeley?] (Akeley's uncle)
Genre	war
Script	? [as Kit Gleason]
Pencils	Leonard Frank
Inks	Leonard Frank

6 page Greasemonkey Griffin story "For Greasemonkey's fine work in bagging the nazis..."

Characters	I: A commander
Genre	war
Script	? [as Kip Beales]
Pencils	Al Walker
Inks	Al Walker