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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published November 1939
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters The Flame
Genre superhero
Pencils Lou Fine; Will Eisner?
Inks Lou Fine
Reprinted in Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn]

9 page The Flame story "Invasion of the Kikoos"

Characters The Flame; un-named girl agent; The Kikoos [villains, some D]; Monk [villain].
Synopsis The Flame has to deal with the wanton killing and robberies staged by a group of weird, spectral creatures called the Kikoo, which came from an island where the government leaders hid them out because of their inferior minds. Unfortunately, led by an evil influence, they are capable of extreme violence, as the Flame discovers.
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner [signed as Basil Berold]
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Notes Some info added by Craig Delich 10-4-08; revised info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 7-30-09.
Reprinted In Golden-Age Greats (AC, 1994 series) #3; in Golden Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #3 (2008); in The Flame (Fox, 1940 series) #1; in Golden Age Men of Mystery (AC, 2005 series) #79 (2009).

8 page Yarko the Great, Master Magician story "The Voodoo Master"

Characters Yarko; Vladim & his beast-men [villains, D].
Synopsis While traveling through the moors outside London, Yarko comes across a man who has been murdered. Stranger still is a weird scientist who practices voodoo and has a group of beast-men under his personal control.
Genre occult
Script Will Eisner?
Pencils Will Eisner (signed as Anthony Brooks)
Inks Will Eisner (signed as Anthony Brooks)
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-4-08.
Reprinted In Golden Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #3 (2008).

6 page Shorty Shortcake story "In Guatemala"

Characters Shorty Shortcake
Genre humor
Script S. M. Iger [signed as Jerry Williams]
Pencils S. M. Iger (signed as Jerry Williams)
Inks S. M. Iger (signed as Jerry Williams)

6 page Patty O'Day story "Sabotage On the Northern Clipper"

Characters Patty O'Day
Genre adventure
Script Claire Moe
Pencils Claire Moe
Inks Claire Moe

6 page Dr. Fung story "The Revenge of Loti Gen-Kee"

Characters Dr. Fung; Dan Barrister; Lio San; Little Lotus Flower [D]; Khan Gen-Kee [villain, D].
Synopsis After the death of a Mr. Byron, Dr. Fung and his assistant pull a false maneuover against Khan Gen-Kee in order to secure evidence that Gen-Kee is responsible.
Genre adventure
Script Bob Powell (signed as Arthur Dean)
Pencils Bob Powell (signed as Arthur Dean)
Inks Bob Powell (signed as Arthur Dean)
Notes Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-28-08.
Reprinted In Golden Age Greats Spotlight (AC, 2003 series) #3 (2008).

2 page text story "Tommy Taylor In India"

Characters Tommy Taylor
Genre adventure
Script S. M. Iger (signed)
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
Letters typeset

5 page Tex Maxon story A Hot Lead Rumba On "Crazy Woman Creek"

Characters Tex Mason
Genre adventure
Script Munson Paddock (signed as Cecilia Munson)
Pencils Munson Paddock [signed as Cecilia Munson]
Inks Munson Paddock [signed as Cecilia Munson]

2 page Don Quixote story "A Day At the Circus"

Characters Don Quixote
Genre adventure

5 page K-51 Spies At War story "The Plot To Take the Phillipines"

Characters Von Diableff (villain, I).
Genre adventure
Script Will Eisner [signed as Willis B. Rensie]
Pencils Bob Powell?
Inks Bob Powell?

5 page Mob Buster Robinson story "Diamonds of Death"

Characters Mob Buster Robinson; Coleman (villain, I, D).
Genre crime
Script ? [signed as Larry Vance]
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska

7 page Spark Stevens story "In Cuba"

Characters Spark Stevens
Genre adventure
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling