Issue Details

Issue	#v1#5
Published	July 1940
Frequency	monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	68
Editing	William DeGrouchy

Cover Details

Genre

Adventure

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Editor's Page"

Script	William DeGrouchy
Letters	typeset
Notes	inside front cover

8 page Shadow story "A tremendous fire, fourth of such mighty blazes..."

Characters	Shadow; Margo Lane; the Salamanders (villains; first appearance)
Genre	Adventure
Script	William Gibson
Notes	Adapted from "The Salamanders" Shadow novel by William Gibson (Maxwell Grant).

8 page Stories by Horatio Alger, Jr. story "Brave and Bold"

8 page Three Musketeers story "D'Artagnan, no sooner arrived in Paris than circumstances led to a duel..."

Genre

period

7 page Gadget Man story "The Talking Toad"

Characters

Gadget Man [Click Rush] (introduction)

6 page Iron Munro story "Iron Munro of Jupiter and Spencer Carlyle, rich young shipowner..."

Script	Theodore Sturgeon
Notes	Script credit from Theodore Sturgeon via Anthony Tollin on the GCD Error List. The Iron Munro comic stories were inspired/based on editor John W. Campbell's Arn Munro short stories in the ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION pulp.

5 page Nick Carter story "The Gate to Death"

6 page Avenger story The Avenger Tracks Down the Demon Who Shocked the World With His "Frozen Death" Powder

Notes

Continued from last issue.

7 page Carrie Cashin story "Terror Island"

6 page Bill Barnes story "Bill Barnes and his pal, Shorty, enter the air races..."

2 page text story "Time and Place"

Script	Milton Lowe
Letters	typeset
Notes	illustrated text story