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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1941
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Phil Sturm

Cover Details

Pencils Charles Sultan
Inks Charles Sultan

8 page Yankee Doodle Jones story "The Case of the Strangling Hair"

Characters Yankee Doodle Jones (Intro; Origin); Dandy (Intro; Origin); Uncle Same (Guest Star); The "Leader" (Villain; Intro; Death); the Hag (Villain; Intro; Death); The Professor (Intro; Death; Dandy's father)
Pencils Lou Fine?
Inks Lou Fine?

7 page Echo story "Origin of the Echo"

Characters The Echo [Jim Carson] (Intro; Origin); Dr. Doom [Carson] (Intro; Echo's brother); Cora Carson (Echo's sister); Mr. Carson (Intro; Death; in Flashback and as a Ghost); Mrs. Carson (Flashback; Death); Gat Carrgio (Villain; Intro; Death)
Pencils John Martin?
Inks John Martin?

8 page Firebrand story "Origin of the Firebrand"

Characters The Firebrand (Intro; Origin; Only appearance, not the Police Comics hero); Professor Rand (Intro); Rimmer (Villain; Intro; Death)
Genre superhero
Pencils Charles Sultan?
Inks Charles Sultan?

9 page Scarlet Sentry story "Origin of the Scarlet Sentry"

Characters The Scarlet Sentry [Don Lawson] (Intro; Origin; Only appearance); Herr Von Crane (Villain; Intro; Death)
Pencils Charles Sultan?
Inks Charles Sultan?

7 page Black Satan story "The Coming of Black Satan"

Characters Black Satan [Howard Flynn] (Intro; Only appearance)
Pencils Charles Sultan?
Inks Charles Sultan?

1 page text story "The Clue"

Letters typeset

7 page Enchanted Dagger story "Origin of the Enchanted Dagger"

Characters The Enchanted Dagger [Roger Chalmers] (Intro; Origin); Varro (Villain; Intro)
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska

7 page Nemo In Slumberland story "Menace From Mercury"

Characters Little Nemo (Re-Intro); Imp (Re-Intro); Dr. Pill (Re-Intro); King Morpheus (Re-Intro); Princess of Dreamland (Re-Intro); Mercurians (Villain; Intro)
Pencils Robert McKay?
Inks Robert McKay?
Notes next app. in SHADOW COMICS (Street & Smith) V. 2 #3

9 page Sgt. Steele story "Trouble In the Tropics"

Characters Sgt. Steele (Intro)
Pencils Charles Sultan?
Inks Charles Sultan?

1 page text story "The Great Air Race"

Letters typeset